Paralegals support lawyers by organizing the massive amounts of paperwork law offices generate, running the office smoothly, helping to draft documents and interviewing witnesses. Paralegals may work for lawyers, corporations, or government agencies. In general, a college degree is sufficient education to become a paralegal, although courses do exist to train and certify paralegals. The … Read more
Your heart pounds and you stop breathing for a second. You’re mad. You’re afraid. And you’re asking one question, “Why me?” After that moment passes, you’ve got to act quick. And that’s when you realize you’re in one of two spots: (1) You’re ready, or (2) You’re a target. I’m going to talk about the … Read more
The most successful investors know that it is best to allocate investment across several asset classes whose returns are not completely correlated with each other. Most of them have assets in cash, equities (stocks), debt instruments (bonds) and real estate. The latter asset class, real estate, is frequently under-represented in investors’ portfolios, but real estate … Read more
When faced with a financial crunch, we look back wondering what went wrong and how we ever let it go that far. Every penny spent seems to be spent for the wrong purpose and even if it was for the right one, we regret overspending on it. Maybe, the long needed vacation was really not … Read more
Stock picking in 2009 was a year when even monkeys could have made a lot of money in the stock market. Maybe you’ve heard the story from the 1980s, which was argued in a popular investing book, that a bunch of monkeys throwing darts at a list of stocks could make stock picking that would … Read more