The Student Loan Exposed!
June 12, 2008 by Tony
Filed under Economics, Educational, Personal Finance
Bloated Tuition cost suck! More and more students have decided to take up loans in order to afford their college education in hopes that their degree will secure them better post-graduation employment. However, I think the days of graduating know that you have spend the best years of your life at an awesome university and exciting career prospects are over! Many students leave college crippled by debt and are whacked in the head with news of their country’s frail economic circumstance and the even weaker job markets! Graduating students find themselves imprisoned by such a dilemma and it doesn’t look so great for those graduating in the near future (Me!).
Buy me a cup o' Joe!Saving; If You Make @ Minimum Wage!
June 4, 2008 by Tony
Filed under Economics, Educational, Personal Finance, Uncategorized
Recently, Tiffany from Rock Stories commented on one of my blog entries titled “Save One Check; Live off the Other!” She explained how it would be nearly improbable that a family or even an individual could possibly use this savings strategy. However, there are other ways that an individual making minimum wage or less could manage to save and I’ll explain a few ways in this blog entry. You must understand that I personally am currently employed and earn less then the minimum wage, full time worker and am incurring debt due to the loss of scholarships now that I’m over my 120 credit hour limit for some of my scholarships. It’s been tough because I no longer can depend on grants because they won’t award me much except to cover books (which is awesome–don’t get me wrong). However, the rest of my aid is purely financial aid loans which have been slowly accumulating. I only make about 80 dollars a week which could conservatively add up to a little under $400.00 a month.
Buy me a cup o' Joe!3 easy ways to save money!
May 28, 2008 by Tony
Filed under Economics, Educational, Personal Finance, Savings!
image from astoriafederal.com
This article was written as my response to the following article. I’ve taken some pieces of it but have personalized it and shortened it to the three ways (from the list at money.cnn.com) that I use to effectively save money. Bellow is a link to the original credited article:
10 easy ways to save $500 or more
I’ve been looking at some of my expenses and have found these three easy ways of saving money to be extremely effective in saving money. Sometimes up to a couple hundred bucks could be saved by doing one of the following three things:
Buy me a cup o' Joe!Truth About Wall Street!
May 19, 2008 by Tony
Filed under Economics, Educational, Personal Finance
Seeing as my purpose for the blog is to educate an audience of individuals trying to achieve financial freedom such as myself, I’ve decided to share the following article with you. Its an article about what wall street really is all about. I could not have explained it better! Stanley Bing did an excellent job here! Check this out folks, it worth the read! If you have any question concerning anything he said, please feel free to ask and I might be able to clarify things a bit.
What Wall Street wants from you!
Respectfully,
Tony Tovar
Buy me a cup o' Joe!
