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How to Make Money in High School and College

Non-Retail Jobs for High School and College Students

By contributing columnist, Alexandra Deluise

You’re broke and you need extra money this year. But you want to find a job that can be flexible around your studies. While there are many easy jobs for students such as babysitting or child care (positions which usually pay around $10 per hour), we’ll exploreother opportunities that can use your talents more effectively.

Are You Wondering How to Make Money in High School and College?

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The Debt Myth-Personal Finance Luminary Jackie Beck-Part 2

Personal Finance Luminary Series-Jackie Beck-Part 2

Welcome to part 2 of this inspiring interview with Personal Finance Luminary, debt evangelist, blogger, and debt app developer. Learn how she went from salaried employee and part time entrepreneur to full time online success. Read Part 1 here.

6. What are your best lifestyle hacks to manage being a mom, entrepreneur, and spouse?

You really have to do what’s most important to you first. Then everything else gets done (or doesn’t) as it can....

The Debt Myth-Personal Finance Luminary Jackie Beck-Part 1

Creator of The Debt Myth-Jackie Beck-Part 1

Welcome to an inside look into some of the most important personal finance luminaries online, Jackie Beck of The Debt Myth. These influential peopleeducate and entertain others about money topics. From authors to podcasters to writers, these money mentors are working to raise the level of financial knowledge and education.

Read more about Personal Finance Luminaries

1. How did you become a personal finance blogger?

I started out by blogging anonymo...

MBA Course: Investing & Portfolio Management-Class 2

Do I Need Bonds in my Portfolio?

“The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future” John Maynard Keynes

One of the foremost economists of the last century succinctly states a reason to invest. Learn the simple principles of investing through this MBA series taken directly from the graduate course I recently taught in Investing & Portfolio Management. Don’t be intimidated, grasp this important investment concept in an...

Why Is the Market Down? What to Do About a Market Drop

Learn What to Do About a Market Drop

August 24, 2015

Friday was a wake-up call for investors who thought the markets only went up. It capped a week of pain and suffering across the major market indexes. In fact, this was the worst week for U.S. stocks in 4 years according to the August 22, 2015 Wall Street Journal headline article by E.S. Browning, “Stock Plunge Picks Up Speed”.

With worries about China’s economy, Europe or specifically Greece still mired in debt, and lagging oil prices the m...

August Finance Reads-Sharpe, Buffett, Trump and More

With the Chinese Yuan falling, Donald Trump rising, Greek debt still in the media, there’s plenty to think about. For a quick diversion, here’s some of the articles I’ve been reading recently. I hope you enjoy themas much as I did.

“Valuable Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Letter to Shareholders“, Cullen Roche of Pragmatic Capitalism – Cullen does a great job of pulling out the key takeaways from Buffett’s last years annual report. My favorite was “stop paying high fees”. My ‘ah-ha’ lesson was...

Use the Premortem and Prevent A Big Investing Mistake

Do a Premortem to Avoid the ‘Buy High – Sell Low’ Problem

We’ve all heard the old adage:

Buy low – sell high

But how many investors actually follow this ‘best investing practice’?

Are you guilty of this big investing mistake?

Turns out, there are reams of data about how investors consistently make this big investing mistake;buy high and sell low. You’ll learn about how this happens, and how to counteract the wealth-reducinginvesting strategy.

Over decades of investing, I’ve seen this same bi...

Oblivious Investor-Mike Piper

Personal Finance Luminary-Interview with Mike Piper

Welcome to an interview with Mike Piper, of the Oblivious Investor Website. This fourth interview for the Personal Finance Luminaries series continues with the mission to highlight and learn from outstanding personal finance educators. Mike follows Luke of Consummerism Commentary, Dr. Charles Richards, author of The Psychology of Wealth, and Kyle of The Penny Hoarder.

Mike Piper has been a favorite blogger of mine for several years. In addit...

How to Benefit from Cyclical Investment Markets-MBA Lecture Recap

Can You Benefit from Cyclical Investment Markets?

In today’s market, a short term interest rate of 1% is highly coveted and difficult to find. The annualized 10 year total return onthe S & P Market index of 7.60% during the last ten years is 2% below the historical returns of the 1928-2014 time period. In spite of the juicy market returns of the past 3 years, you may wonder, where are the average stock market returns of 9%?

What happened during the first decade of the new millennium to bring...

MBA Class; Use Net Present Value to Make Investment Decisions

Investing Solutions(part 3)

Welcome to Investing Solutions Week at Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance.Don’t miss parts 1 and 2.

Investing Solutions (Part 1); Why You Must Start Saving Now Investing Solutions (part 2) ; Six Investing Solutions Six Dangerous Investing Myths

I’m in the midst of teaching a Corporate Finance class for MBA students at a local university. Some of the concepts, althoughrather complicated, have important real world applicability. an extremely important concept is, ho...