Bank finance articles and tips

If the credit card is not used intelligently, then you may get into some amount of the trouble in the future.
With the economic crisis looming upon our head, the rules of the credit card companies have become stricter. It also means that if you do not pay the credit card bill on due time, then the credit card companies will offer you no extra time or better say the grace period to pay back the amount of the credit card bill. If the bill is not paid in proper time, then the credit card companies or the financial institutions may even mortgage your valuable assets.

If you own and operate a small business then at some point you've surely thought about what you'd do if "the big guy" from Arkansas moved into your neighborhood, and started selling what you sell.

Get my drift?

If so, then in this article I'll show you what to do in your small business marketing to make any big corporation that tries to tread on your turf nothing to worry about....

Not all companies pay out dividends to their shareholders as some would rather retain their earnings and add them up as additional cash investments. Now if you want to truly feel the gains of your investment, investing on a company that pays out dividends to its shareholders would make a better option for you.

But finding a company that is paying out dividends to its shareholders isn't good enough. If you want a high return on investment (ROI), you need to find top dividend stocks....

Are you one of the many who think that in order to save taxes, you have to first generate some sort of income? Though many consider tax planning and tax savings to be one in the same, let's not get ahead of ourselves. After re-negotiating credit card debt, some find that they still owe thousands of dollars of taxes towards the IRS. How does this happen? In the event that a lender decides to forgive debt, the forgiven debt then becomes Cancellation of Debt, also known as COD income, which means it is taxable....

"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back."
John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory, Chapter 24, last paragraph

The madmen in authority today are distilling their frenzy from Keynes, just as he predicted. From my perspective, Keynes is the most misread, misinterpreted, misquoted and misunderstood economist of modern times....

ath? Have you ever thought about how you would like your affairs to be left in the event of your sudden de

I have been working with expatriates around the world for the past 11 years. Having done so, I have found that it is common for important documents to be scattered across different locations.

Some are with us, wherever we are. Some are in our office. We keep some with our parents. Some may be in a safety deposit box somewhere....