5 Reasons Why It’s Important to Have Good Social Skills Italians are  generally viewed as a very social and outgoing.  Italian society puts great emphasis on communications and  personal relationships and its part of the reason why Italians have a reputation for conveying warmth and openess with both native and non-natives alike. In turn, here are five advantages associated with […]

WiseBread.com recently released a list of the top 165 personal finance web sites.  WiseBread used traffic, incoming blog links, RSS subscribers, link authority, and Compete scores to determine the rankings.  The chart is also updated on daily basis so you can actually re-visit the chart each day and see different sites move up and down in the rankings. Personal finance […]

– Wise Bread has an interesting article on the pros and cons of pre-paying your mortage – I can tell you that I’ve been giving this one lots of thought and I still haven’t come to an easy answer   @ WiseBread. – Dough Roller posted a “festival of frugality” that contains some great information on frugal living, finances, debt, etc.  @ Doughroller.com […]

Becoming financially independent is about setting goals and staying on track in order to achieve those goals.  In my view, most Americans are in poor financial shape (i.e., living on credit, spending more than they earn,  not saving enough or at all, etc.) because they have not set financial goals, partly due to not knowing how to do so (that’s my […]