Can Scarcity Thinking Sabotage Success?

Archive for February, 2014

Can Scarcity Thinking Sabotage Success?

By on Friday, February 28th, 2014 | Comments Off

Can you really attract wealth just by changing your thoughts, as promised by self-help gurus everywhere? Though it seems that those self-proclaimed experts are attracting their own wealth just by persuading you that it’s true so you’ll buy their courses and books, psychologists and life coaches say that limiting beliefs you may not even be […]

The Federal Reserve Faces Critics At Home and Abroad

By on Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 | Comments Off

The Federal Reserve’s brand new leader has a lot on her plate. As the nation’s central bank takes the first steps toward tapering down its massive stimulus plan, it faces not just criticism from emerging markets around the globe but also from financial experts at home, who worry bout the Fed’s long-term stability. A few […]

AMA 76 – Open The Books with Adam Andrzejewski

By on Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 | Comments Off

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2702013/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard” height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] A national leader in bringing transparency to government spending, Adam Andrzejewski, (Angie-f-ski) the eldest of seven children, was born in rural Herscher, IL– a hardworking small town, and family farm community. After working his way through Northern Illinois University, Adam and his brother successfully […]

Boreas and Friends Take a Toll on the Economy

By on Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 | Comments Off

Boreas, Cleon, Electra . . . the newly named winter storms marched across the northeastern US earlier this winter in quick succession, leaving behind frigid air, paralyzed cities, and economic consequences that proved costly for some, lucrative for others. And the result is a mixed picture for employment, construction and the big indicator of economic […]

Emerging Markets Worry About Stimulus Fallout

By on Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 | Comments Off

The Federal Reserve may be optimistic about the outcomes of its decision to taper down the ongoing bond buying stimulus program, but the rest of the world isn’t so sure. Among issues on the table at an upcoming meeting of the world’s money policymakers in Sydney are concerns that in deciding to scale back on […]

Stress Can Derail Financial Success

By on Thursday, February 20th, 2014 | Comments Off

Medical professionals have been saying for years that stress can take years off your life. For a number of financial professionals, that may literally be true, as a string of suicides and other mysterious deaths rock the international banking community. The world of finance is a high stress, high stakes place – and new studies […]

Banks Settle Up In Insurance Rate Fixing Suits

By on Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 | Comments Off

In the seemingly never ending saga of legal actions against the nation’s big banks – and sometimes their foreign counterparts as well – the action usually plays out on a government stage of the highest level, with lawsuits brought by state officials or the Justice Department itself. But a recent lawsuit discreetly settled by Bank […]

Is Insurance an “Investment?”

By on Sunday, February 16th, 2014 | Comments Off

Insurance policies may protect assets in the event of a catastrophe, but are they — as insurance companies would have it – a real investment? A new Forbes business report reveals that while insurers sell policies as sound investments in the future, they’re actually using the premiums paid by worried — and trusting – policyholders […]

Can The World Have Too Many Currencies?

By on Thursday, February 13th, 2014 | Comments Off

While the Bitcoin continues to grab headlines for reasons good and bad, other digital currencies are quietly staking their own claim in the international money markets. As it’s becoming clear that virtually anybody can put a digital money system in place, economists and financial experts worry about the impact these upstarts could have on the […]

AMA 75 – “The Great Withdrawal” with Lowell Ponte

By on Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 | Comments Off

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2674710/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard” height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Lowell Ponte is the co-author of the new book, “The Great Withdrawal: How the Progressives’ 100-Year Debasement of America and the Dollar Ends.” Ponte joins the show to discuss how dishonest Obamacare is and whether Obama should be penalized for such an Act. […]

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