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U.S. stocks rallied and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rebounded from an 11-year low after President-elect Barack Obama picked New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy Geithner to head the Treasury.

Geithner was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He obtained an M.A. in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1985. He has studied Japanese and Chinese and has lived in East Africa, India, Thailand, China, and Japan.

Here are his job history:

• Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., for three years.
• International Affairs division of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1988.
• In 1999 he was promoted to Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.
• In 2002 he join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department.
• International Monetary Fund as the director of the Policy Development and Review Department.
• Worked at Federal Reserve in October 2003.
• In 2006 he became a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.

My current position November 19, 2008:

• .BABZ BA FEB 2009 40 Call – cost : $5.70
• CVI – cost : $3.60
• .KOBI KO FEB 2009 45 Call – cost : $4.20
• MECA – cost : $2.10

I bought all stocks and option hoping the price will go up.

Saving money is very important in your life. By saving money, you can have a better future for yourself and your children.

Here are some tips:

• Saving on Credit card. Having a credit card is very convenient since carrying a lot of cash becomes unneccesary. You should obtain your credit card records to have a better idea of your spendings. Be sure to pay on time and don’t spend more than you can afford. Consider cancelling your credit card if you are not using it frequently, because their annual fee might be high.
• Saving on gas. The price of gas is on the rise, but recently is has gone down. To save gas, you can exchange driving responsibilities with your friends. You can save 50% from this. Go to work by using bus, or maybe riding a bike. Your car should be on very good condition too. Check your engine and tire pressure. Having unequal pressure can greatly affect the car’s fuel economy.
• Save Money on Groceries. Before shopping create your shopping list and stick with it. Don’t buy branded goods, and buy cheaper product with the same quality. You can also shop once or twice a month. In that way, less time will be spent on going to a grocery store and at the same time, chances of overspending will be minimized.
• Save Money on Utilities. Identify which appliances consume much electricity and change them. You can save a lot. Maintain your heating system appliances because they are the ones that consume too much electricity. The refrigerator and the water heater consume that much energy as well.
• Saving Money on Medication. The most important thing is being fit and healthy. Prevention is the key. Reducing cigarette and alcohol consumption can save you a lot of money. If you are sick buy generic drugs. Generic drugs are basically the same as the branded ones in terms of ingredients and quality. Ask you doctors about the possible alternatives that you can take. Ask him if there is a generic drug that you can take. 

My last article talks about student loan, where you can find loan to pay your college. When you have this loan, you need to pay monthly payment. Loan can be very dangerous for you. So if there is a chance for consolidating your loan, go for it.

When interest rates is low like now, there is no reason for the graduates not to consider student loan consolidation. With student loan consolidation, students and graduates can save thousands of bucks in interest charges.

Student loan consolidation is the process or the act of combining multiple loans into a single loan in order to decrease the monthly payment amount or elevate the repayment period. By doing loan consolidation, you can save money. When you take a loan, you will be assigned with different variable interest rates. When interest rate is low, this is the change to lower your interest rate. By considering consolidation and remaining on your 10 years payment plan, it is possible that you can lock your interest at today’s current loan rates and save some bucks over the long haul. Aside from that, all of those loans may have come from different lending companies or banks. So, if you consolidate, it means that you only deal with one single company and one payment rather than several. 

By considering a loan consolidation, borrowers not only save money but can also help improve their credit score for the better over time. Credit score is very important factor when you want to have mortgage or taking other loan.

Saving is your best defense against bankruptcy. It insulates you from possible financial loss and gives you the ability to expand your finances and create a money-generating business machine that will help you earn extra. 

Here are ways on how you can effectively maximize your financial resources and helps you manage your money by developing correct habits and outlook suitable for your goal:

• Only buy products because you need them. Food, shelter, clothing and transportation are the primary examples. In a modern world, car and phone gadgets are a necessary part of a busy working individual. However, unless you are receiving more than $10,000 per month, you basically won’t need to have a $40,000 to $50,000 luxury vehicle. The same is true for your telephone media. Having your own cellular phone is necessary but keeping up with the latest model or buying the all the latest releases are not practical and earns you more points on plunging into a staggering financial downfall.
• Less Is best. Although we sometimes need to afford a little affluence in terms of the food we eat, the body pampering devices and accessories, such as clothes and body-relaxing services, we also need to consider that these types of activities should only be reserved for special occasions and for cases when you have some excess left in your household budget.
• Spend Less; Save More – Spending more than what you earn or produce is a bad habit that most people get used to doing everyday. Allocate a special percentage of your earnings to go into your savings accounts while spending the rest for your day-to-day expenses.

Emergency funds are considered to be a necessity as far as financial security is concerned, since it can provide one with financial resources that one can resort to and depend on when an emergency arises such that when one is sick and have the burden of paying huge medical bills, or unexpected home or major car repair.

When one has no emergency fund, one can be obliged to acquire debt on your credit card that might take several years to repay with interest that would later cost so much more.

However by putting an extra thirty to fifty dollars every month in an individual “emergency savings account” one can be secured with what emergency the future may bring. In doing this, it is recommended that one regards the emergency fund as an additional bill, to be punctually paid each month. The emergency savings should ideally be equal to at least three months your living expenditures.

Budgeting is putting or setting aside money for anticipated and unanticipated future use.  It is here that one sets up a goal so as to save.  So set an emergency fund as your goal. Checking, savings, money market accounts and “certificates of deposits”, are great places to keep one’s cash that might be needed on quick notice.

The amount saved from budgeting can either go to your savings goal, emergency fund or both.  One could utilize the money saved from budgeting financial expenses by saving half of it to your savings account and half of it for emergencies. This way, you achieve your goals in savings and at the same time put in funds for emergency use.  It’s your choice.

Budgeting your monthly expenses in order to get the greatest return on your income doesn’t have to be extremely hard. You just need to know the right tool. Here are some tools to help you:

• Various budgeting programs are available for use. Money management programs provide you with a usual package that allows you to enter your cash inflows and outflows, categorizes your expenditures, and at times, presents to you analysis of your spending behavior.
• Another budgeting tool that you can utilize are coupons. Various stores and magazines contain coupons that you can use to get discounts on various products. Should there be a need to purchase a particular product for which you have a coupon for, you will end up saving a fraction of what you might have had to spend on a regular purchase.
• Lists—whether on a piece of paper, on your cellular phone, or on your personal digital assistant (PDA) will help you keep focused on what you have to buy, and in effect, keep track of the purchases you make. A classic example is your regular grocery trip. Prior to making the trip, plan out the week’s entire menu and identify what food items and materials you need to purchase that are unavailable in your pantry.
• A filing system where you can put together your bills, your receipts, and whatever bank documents are issued to you when you save or pay. By putting together your bills, your credit card receipts, and the like, you are able to keep track of how much you owe and when your payments are due.

Timothy Sykes turned $12,000 into $2 million in four years, lost 1/3 of it, starred in the hit TV show Wall Street Warriors and is now committed to teaching everyone, finance freaks and normal people alike, to profit from the world’s trashiest stocks, penny stocks through his publishing company BullShip Press, LLC (seriously). This is part of the stock market that is filled with hype, manipulation and corruption and once you learn how to identify all the players and the games they play, which surprisingly isn’t very difficult, you can make some serious money with little risk.

The key is learning discipline and not getting too cocky from all the money you make! (seriously) This ain’t no get-rich-scheme, it’s the first brutally honest blog (www.TimothySykes.com), book (An American Hedge Fund), instructional DVD (PennyStocking) and subscription service (TIM ALERTS) focused on teaching the risks AND rewards of stock trading, broken down to the basics and integrated with a blog so our customers can interact and ask any questions whatsoever. Totally open. No more financial BS. No more sketchy schemes. No more overpriced crap. This is stock trading, specifically penny stock trading (ideal for people with just a few thousand dollars) going mainstream. Affiliates will earn 25% commissions on all products, meaning $75 per PennyStocking DVD package sold ($300 retail), $12.50 per month per TIM ALERTS subscription ($50 monthly retail) or $123.75 per TIMalerts annual subscription ($495 retail).

No joke, Timothy has learned from the boiler rooms themselves to give out big commissions to salespeople – except that these products are quality, not fraudulent! Think of the BullShip Press brand as a financial Girls Gone Wild, instead of profiting from young trashy girls, investors, traders, non-finance people and affiliates alike will profit from low priced trashy stocks! Read some blog posts (any blog posts) to see that this is all real and it’s gonna get everyone loving this greatly unloved and misunderstood financial sector.