Advice to high school students
I wish I’d read and heeded Seven Pieces Of Financial Advice For A High School Student when I was younger. The tips are still useful, even if one now has less time to benefit from the advice.
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I wish I’d read and heeded Seven Pieces Of Financial Advice For A High School Student when I was younger. The tips are still useful, even if one now has less time to benefit from the advice.
Richard A Ferri, CFA, has three published books that provide solid investing advice (index funds, asset allocation, minimizing expenses, etc). His first book Serious Money is now available for free as a pdf.
The Mortgage Professor (he’s a real professor) has tons of easy-to-understand explanations about mortgages and some pretty nifty calculators too.
If you are going to get a mortgage soon or in the distant future, this would be a great place to start your research. Mortgages are complicated beasts.
John Stossel from 20/20 regularly writes excellent columns for Townhall.com. His eloquent column titled, The Double “Thank-You” Moment should be required reading for everyone.
Trent from The Simple Dollar has a pretty popular blog. His road to financial armageddon series describes his financial awakening. It’s an interesting read. Also, his blog is updated pretty heavily considering he has a full time job, a wife, and two young kids!
Freemoneyfinance suggests you Ask for Something You Don’t Want…. and Blueprint for Financial Prosperity suggests you Practice with Live Ammo.
Hauckes posts an excellent reminder to bloggers and web entrepreneurs that communication and relationships are ‘integral to blogging’.
Join Joe Hauckes in his promise:
Angela Booth reminds writers to avoid focusing on too many projects, if the goal is to actually finish. This suggestion applies to most creative endeavors.
Tyler Cowens offers a particularly lucid definition of economics: “Economics is the science of the logic of choice, matching means to ends, making better decisions, thinking about how incentives operate and what costs really mean.”
Check out the interview on econtalk, or get the book if you want to know why “Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life.”
