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Last week I had a meeting with a potential client to discuss social media issues. When she learned I had a medical billing background, she asked me if medical billing programs that teach you how to bill from home are a scam. My response was yes and no. Medical billing courses that teach people how [...]
In today’s complex global economy, everything is connected. The advance of technology and communication over the last few decades has served to create an ever-increasing connectedness across multiple asset classes. However, one of the clearest correlations that exists is the one between the price of oil and specific currency prices in the foreign exchange market. [...]
I’m not a big proponent of people having a lot of credit cards. It’s way too easy to get lulled into a false sense of security as far as being able to buy anything you want to. Small monthly payments are also misleading because most people don’t realize how many years it would take to [...]
Locally there was a poll taken of consumers on what they were thinking about the housing market. Overwhelmingly it was stated that they believe it’s much easier to buy a home in this marketplace than to try to sell one. That seems to be the belief across the country as well. Large housing companies are [...]
When you’re trying to figure out where your money’s going one way of doing that is to create a budget. Truthfully, though, setting a budget is only one piece of the puzzle. One of the problems with a budget is that if you have money left over you tend to spend it indiscriminately, and suddenly [...]
Even though interest rates are starting to go up, they’re still relatively low at this point. Many people are going back and forth as to whether or not they should try to refinance their mortgages. Here are some pros and cons of doing either action. Let’s first look at the pros. One pro, of course, [...]
Last February I wrote an article here titled Are You Sure You Don’t Want National Health Care Coverage? At that time, I was alluding to the fact that in California an insurance company had put in a bid to raise insurance premiums 39%, and how another one was looking to raise it’s rate 346%. This [...]