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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, or so says a famous jazz song by Carol Channing. Diamonds, the gems that have symbolized love and marriage for decades, are beginning to attract wealthy investors as a commodity investment with potentially high returns and have, even more than gold, always
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Even if we look only at the last 100 years or so, several nations have experimented with moving their capital cities around the globe for political or economical reasons: Brazil (1960), Nigeria (1991), Kazakhstan (1997), just to name a few. Most recently, Egypt (2023) and Jakarta (2024) have also built
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The author of this book, William J. Bernstein, is not your usual author. In fact, he hasn't only published financial books or founded an investment management firm, but before starting his finance career, he got a PhD in chemistry and MD (specialized in neurology). The Four Pillars of
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For my first article of the book reviews section, I decided to pick one of the most famous and recommended book on personal finance: Rich dad, poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki. The book has been around for more than 20 years and after the success it had, it pushed Kiyosaki
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What is the first emotion that you feel when I say the word “money”? Why some of your friends are savers and some are spenders? Money has powerful emotional associations. Ask people what emotions are most frequently associated with money and research provides the following rank-ordered list: anxiety, depression, anger,
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A (wrong) assumption is that kids don't and should not hear anything about money because "they are kids", "should just think about playing" and different variations of the statements. Well, this couldn't be more far from truth. In fact, kids hear about
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There is an old saying that goes like: "Money can't buy happiness". My answer to it is "Then try to live without money". Jokes aside, there are a couple factors to consider: * The context you live in: being poor, wealthy or even rich depends
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To understand what is compounding, instead of starting with the theory, let's start with a picture. Imagine that you invested $10,000 for 30 years at 5% interest rate, in one case with compounding and in another without. You can see the result in the chart below: The
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It turns out that one of the most popular cliches—that money can't buy happiness—may not be true. There is a relationship between money and human brain; this relationship, if not handled correctly, can cause negative effects. There are some ways though to buy happiness that have
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To put in practice the theory on how an income statement is structured (in the article HERE), let's take a look at a couple income statements. I don't want to make you certified accountants therefore we'll just focus on the main peculiarities of the
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It provides a summary of how cash flows have been created or dissolved during the fiscal period. The stress is on cash cause profit (in the income statement) is based on promises, not money coming in. So if you want to know whether a company has cash to pay employees,
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To put in practice the theory on how an income statement is structured (in the article HERE), let's take a look at a couple income statements. I don't want to make you certified accountants therefore we'll just focus on the main peculiarities of the