If you\'re interested in investing, but are reluctant to fund companies whose practices you disagree with (either on moral, ethical, or environmental grounds), it\'s probably worth pointing out to you that you have options. And those options are related to the concept of Socially Responsible Investing, or SRI.
Portfolio managers that are involved in SRI (also known as green portfolio...
Nobody likes the feeling that comes with having more month left at the end of your money. And while we're always advised to cut our expenses, such a strategy can only go so far. Sometimes, you absolutely have to increase your income and for the vast majority of us, that means getting a pay raise. The following suggestions are not guaranteed to land you one; if anything, getting a raise is never...
Today's high gas prices are giving many of us added incentive to go out there and find ways to reduce our spending in order to be able to balance our budgets and reach our financial goals (even if said financial goal is simply survival). But some money-saving measures are harder to implement than others, thus easier to fall by the wayside once we decide we "deserve" to be living comfortably. In...
History suggests that stocks are the best investment you can make when you're in it for the long haul. No matter the investment vehicle, be it bonds, cash, diamonds, silver, gold, in the long run stocks give the best returns. I read in a lot of places that stocks returns are higher than real estate returns but I don't personally agree. Real estate returns are calculated on the basis of the...
In the investing world (and in the business world as well), the formula for success is to "buy low, sell high". Due to its "instant results" nature, the stock market is like a dream come true for investors hoping to strike gold using that exact formula. Although the strategy sounds simple, as most investors (and many non-investors) know, timing the market is a tricky proposition.
Proponents...
With fuel prices soaring, more and more people are asking themselves the following question: "Are there any real work at home jobs that are not scams"? This stems from the fact that a simple internet search for "work from home" or "work at home" yields all sorts of results. Some of them are just flat out scams. Others, like affiliate marketing, multilevel marketing, and the such, are not made...
I usually say that, in terms of features, there's nothing an iPod can do that a Zune can't do, but that the opposite isn't true. And the biggest feature that the Zune has and the iPod lacks is its wireless functionality.
Wireless Sync
Wireless is the new way to go, and frankly, it's a very good thing when you're able to sync your Zune to your computer's library without having to plug it...
Incandescent light bulbs produce light through heat: an electric current passes through a thin filament, heating it up. The heat makes the filament white-hot, producing the light that you see. 90% of the energy used to create the heat that lights an incandescent bulb is wasted.
Compact fluorescent light bulbs use a different technology: they contain a gas that produces invisible ultraviolet...
The uninitiated might be surprised to learn that kohl wasn't initially a department store chain, but a very popular cosmetic product, in use since thousands of years ago, and widely considered to be the precursor to modern mascara.
Kohl has been worn traditionally as far back as the Bronze Age (3500 BC onward). Ancient Egyptians used it as far back as 4,000 B.C. It was used on their eye...
Lately it has been outlined in the press that although the price of crude oil has dropped 15% in the past three weeks, the average price at the pump has gone down much more slowly. Over the same time period, the average price at the pump for a gallon of regular gas has only gone down 3%.
According to leading experts, motorists are getting hosed, because the dealers at the pump wait several...
