The changing landscape has left us more familiar with 401K's, Pension Plans and Retirement Plans then ever before. Being in the financial capital of the world offers us a unique opportunity when it comes to investing our dollars. Wall St. is in our backyard, every major brokerage has offices in the Tri-State and many smaller houses also call our area home.
Whether you are looking for a bank to do business with, a mortgage broker or an estate planner the Tri-State offers a wealth of choices. We are home to numerous insurance agents, debt consolidators, stock brokers, banks and accountants. Whatever your financial needs may be finding the right persons to help you should be easy given the choices you will have at your disposal.
Financial News Headlines
5 Tips for Repairing Bad Credit By: Gretchen Reese Almost all of us are fond of overspending! We buy things we don't really need. Once we see something that catches our eyes, we automatically buy it - often without even thinking if we still have money or not. Read Article
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston
Most Americans would agree that they are duty bound as beneficiaries of our democracy to pay taxes, and the majority of us do pay—-exorbitantly. But what about those who do not pay their fair share? David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, here reveals how fairness and equity have eroded from the American tax system. Johnston describes in shocking detail the loopholes our government provides the "super rich"--from private individuals to profitable corporations—-to hide their wealth, to defer or evade tax payments, and to pass the bill to law-abiding middle-class Americans. The loss in revenue "imposes a severe cost on honest taxpayers" through reduced services, increased federal debt, and a weight on the middle class that threatens to impede its ability to achieve upward social mobility.
How Investors Can Make Money Using Mass Psychology: A Guide to Your Relationship With Moneyby James Dines, Gianfranco Basili, Morie Brickman
Hate math? Then you will like James Dines' new book, Mass Psychology. To me, finance's frontier is what academics call "behaviorism" -- the psychology of what people do with investment tools, as opposed to traditional finance, which simply analyzes the tools themselves. Sometimes how tools are used is more important than the tools themselves. Mr Dines jumps into the psychology of it all, warning that many of us harbor a deep- seated desire to lose. His exposition on gambler psychology and investing is classic.
