Finance

Critical Moments: How can ruin our personal finances

How can ruin our personal finances

I just found a very interesting book, here in the city bookstores, related to personal finance as critical times such as divorce, widowhood, unemployment, the arrival of children, recurring economic crises, both our countries and the global, natural disasters and even an unexpected entry of a large sum of money, staff can destabilize our economy.

The authors (María Lecuona and Danila Terragno) are based on the premise that you must recognize what these moments that occur throughout life and how to deal with, to avoid that they can affect, sometimes irrevocably, our financial life. Read the rest of this entry »

A few days after Christmas, which should be a few days full of joy and longing for a good night comes, for many of us are more stress-filled days and concerns about the costs we have to do.

At this time we started buying with abandon, letting ourselves be carried by the advertising companies that encourage us to buy everything we can and need to buy the best gifts.

It seems to never finish to learn the lesson of every Christmas that tells us to measure ourselves in our expenses, and end up spending all the money back that we have and we do not have to. Read the rest of this entry »

How to deal with the financial education of children

How to deal with the financial education of children

Many people now are concerned with teaching young children the importance of savings, postpone satisfaction and set financial goals. Many parents do this intuitively I suspect that somehow acquire this knowledge at an early age can help your child become more responsible in money matters.

Now an author of books on financial education for children, Alvaro Modernell, gives his recommendations on how parents should address this issue with their children. Read the rest of this entry »

Our money and misleading advertising
Recently an American spectator, Where else? Has sued the distributors of the latest film by Ryan Gosling, called Drive, on the grounds that the advertising or movie trailer was misleading and that the action scenes with which this was advertised were less than the expected spectator. I think Sarah Deming, is not alone in its application. At least from an emotional standpoint.

Many of us once we have been defrauded by deceptive advertising. In fact before writing about this subject, I thought to dedicate an entry about the hundreds of companies that have copied the business model and ending Groupon offering products and services are very poor and even at the bottom price that are no bargain. Read the rest of this entry »