Check these out:
Podcasts
Creating Wealth on Your Current Income - far ranging, VERY USEFUL, starts at the beginning of every topic:no previous knowledge required. Episodes last 20-30 minutes. Listed on iTunes.
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Free Comprehensive Training in Investing
Morningstar.com's 'Investing Classroom' rocks: scroll down near the bottom of the morningstar home page and look for the "Learn" link. The classes are right there, divided by topic area.
These are free and REALLY, REALLY GOOD. It's a brilliant idea: a series of mini-online courses---each one tiny, taking 5-10 minutes to work through---and set up to follow each other in a successively in-depth fashion. There are 4 sections:
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The best things I did to learn about money and gain a great deal of control over my life:
I did the Morningstar courses described above.
I bought a Premium Morningstar membership (you can get a free trial of several weeks or save up course points for a free six-month membership---I highly recommend the latter approach) and then started reading the Premium member-only articles and fund/stock analyses.
I started listening to the "Creating Wealth on Your Current Income" podcast.
I subscribed to "MyFico.com" and got very familiar with my FICO score and credit reports. You can get a free trial of MyFico, see your score and reports and then cancel the subscription if you want to. Knowing and understanding my FICO really helped me.
If you do even one of these things you will greatly enhance your power in this world. Knowledge is power, and understanding element Money translates into alot more freedom.
Because money in your bank accounts manifests as freedom in your life.
Podcasts
Creating Wealth on Your Current Income - far ranging, VERY USEFUL, starts at the beginning of every topic:no previous knowledge required. Episodes last 20-30 minutes. Listed on iTunes.
( Read more... )
Free Comprehensive Training in Investing
Morningstar.com's 'Investing Classroom' rocks: scroll down near the bottom of the morningstar home page and look for the "Learn" link. The classes are right there, divided by topic area.
These are free and REALLY, REALLY GOOD. It's a brilliant idea: a series of mini-online courses---each one tiny, taking 5-10 minutes to work through---and set up to follow each other in a successively in-depth fashion. There are 4 sections:
( Read more... )
The best things I did to learn about money and gain a great deal of control over my life:
I did the Morningstar courses described above.
I bought a Premium Morningstar membership (you can get a free trial of several weeks or save up course points for a free six-month membership---I highly recommend the latter approach) and then started reading the Premium member-only articles and fund/stock analyses.
I started listening to the "Creating Wealth on Your Current Income" podcast.
I subscribed to "MyFico.com" and got very familiar with my FICO score and credit reports. You can get a free trial of MyFico, see your score and reports and then cancel the subscription if you want to. Knowing and understanding my FICO really helped me.
If you do even one of these things you will greatly enhance your power in this world. Knowledge is power, and understanding element Money translates into alot more freedom.
Because money in your bank accounts manifests as freedom in your life.