Latest Financial NewsStay tuned for the financial news from all over the World!

Everyone loves a holiday. As well as enjoying the anticipation of the build-up, before you go it is also worth making sure you’ve got your holiday finances in order. This can include things such as paying off the balance on your interest free credit card so you can use it while you’re away and making sure you’ve got travel insurance. Read on to find out more about three important holiday finance tips.

Get travel insurance

One of the most important financial issues to take care of before you go on any trip is travel insurance. If anything goes wrong on your trip, you are likely to need to claim on your travel insurance – so make sure you have adequate cover. You can get specific cover for things such as backpacking and adventure holidays, as well as extra protection for valuables if you need it, so have a look at your options to make sure you get all the cover you need.

Protect your holiday money

It’s also important to protect your holiday money so you minimise the risk of problems while you’re away. If you’re p Read full post…

In the past two decades, Medicare’s administrators have conducted demonstrations to test two broad approaches to enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in Medicare’s fee-for-service program. Disease management and care coordination demonstrations have sought to improve the quality of care of beneficiaries with chronic illnesses and those whose health care is expected to be particularly costly. Value-based payment demonstrations have given health care providers financial incentives to improve the quality and efficiency of care rather than payments based strictly on the volume and intensity of services delivered.

In an issue brief released today, CBO reviewed the outcomes of 10 major demonstrations—6 in the first category and 4 in the second—that have been evaluated by independent researchers. CBO fin

Read full post…

We finally broke our one and done streak yesterday!

We knew it had to happen. The good news is: we quickly recovered and made our profit! Today, well, we had another one and done. and

The Tick Trader System is ROCKING!

We get a lot of requests for webinars so for all of you who ask: Were having our first Webinar of 2012 next week! Come hang out and learn more about our course: Monday January 23 at 7PM Eastern.

Here is the registration link:

You can also call Al at 904-718-4490

Enjoy the weekend!

?

It is a good rule to question every study on income inequality by asking, “Why those years?”  

The latest version is from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), and the author concludes:

“Changes in income from capital gains and dividends were the single largest contributor to rising income inequality between 1996 and 2006. Changes in tax policy also made a significant contribution to the increase in income inequality, but even in the absence of tax policy changes income inequality would likely have increased.”

And about those years:

“The years 1996 and 2006 are examined for several reasons.  First, both years were at approximately similar points of the business-cycle with moderate inflation (about 3%), a modest unemployment rate (about 5%), and moderate economic growth (3.7% in 1996 and 2.7% in 2006).  Second, 2006 was the year before the August 2007 liquidity crunch and the onset of the severe 2007-2009 recession.  Third, there were major tax policy changes between these two years.  Fo

Read full post…

The beginning of each year is a great time to evaluate the direction of your life and to ask yourself some very important questions.  Often we get so busy just living life that we lose our perspective.  It is important for each of us to take time once in a while to reassess how our lives are going.  It is also important for all of us to reassess the direction that our nation is heading in every so often.  The truth is that America has gotten badly off track.  We have abandoned the principles which once made this country great, and this country is literally falling apart all around us.  Hopefully the questions below will not just get you focused on our problems.  Hopefully they will also spur you to think about solutions.  Both individually and as a nation, we are in a lot of trouble.  We need to start asking better questions and we need to rediscover the things that once made America the greatest nation on earth.  If we are willing to humble ourselves and change course then there is hope for us.  If not, then the road that we are currently on will only lead to national disaster.

The following are 112 questions to ask yourself in 2012….

#1 Are Barack Obama and Mitt Romney really the best that America can come up with?

#2 Right now the nations of the world are 55 trillion dollars in debt.  How long will it be before this system of debt totally collapses?

#3 What things in life are you truly grateful for?  Do you ever take time to thank those that have been so good to you?

#4 In 2012, when you add the maturing debt that the Italian government must roll over to their projected budget deficit, it comes to 23.1 percent of Italy’s GDP.  How in the world is Italy going to be able to handle that in this economic environment?

#5 What do you feel like you are missing in life?  Are you actively looking for those things?

#6 According to a survey conducted by the National Geographic Society, only 37 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can find Iraq on a map of the world.  What does that say about our education system?

#7 Do you give more than you take?  Would you rather serve people or be served?

#8 Why were gun sales in the United States at record levels as we entered 2012?

#9 What are you afraid of? Are those fears

Read full post…