Hedge Funds for Dummies came out in 2006, so I’ve been selling books for eight years already. Yikes! I just completed the 30 Day Book Marketing Challenge, and the last assignment is to write a post about book marketing and the challenge for a participant blog hop. Here’s my advice to authors, general comments about… [Read More]
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This is not a blogathon bucket list
A standard prompt for blogathons is to write up a bucket list. Well, I don’t really have one, and here’s why: I love to travel, and I love to read, and I love to learn new things. As long as I’m doing those things, I don’t need to make a list and check it twice.
How Americans Save
The folks at America Saves Week recently released their Survey of American Savers, which they took in March of 2014. They were looking at the non-retirement savings habits of those who had signed the America Saves pledge. The survey asked where people put their money. Large numbers of people reported saving their money in traditional… [Read More]
Nigeria: Welcome to Nollywood
Nigeria is in the news now because of the bizarre Boko Haram kidnapping of schoolgirls. It is a nation of 177 million people, half of whom are Muslim, and 43% of whom are under that age of 14. It has Africa’s largest economy in terms of total GDP, at $478.5 billion. That translates to $2,800… [Read More]
Paying for college: Why do parents have to pay, anyway?
Undergraduate financial aid is calculated based on parental income, with no regard for whether the parents are willing to pay. It doesn’t seem quite fair. People are legally emancipated from their parents at age 18, and younger in some instances. Parents are not expected to provide food and clothing to an 1-year-old, so why should… [Read More]
