Investor Jones

How the story of the greedy snake begun. As I was channel flicking at home on TV, I stopped flicking and started watching a film “Revolver” by Guy Ritchie for a few minutes. The scene, I saw was an Asian man reciting a poem about beauty. It was one of the last statements of the poem that got me which was quote “Greed’ is the only Snake you cannot charm”. This made me stop and think. How right and powerful this statement is in the financial world.

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When you are facing problems to combat the impulse to splurge, you are not the only person. As per the latest statistical data, the average U.S. citizen carries around $2,900 as credit card debt. In 2008, 1.6 million families in the country filed for bankruptcy. Following are some important steps that would effectively help you eliminate debt:

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Have you ever considered this about the Swine Flu. It was just a year ago since we had a potential worry about the Bird flu pandemic. A great fuss was made, the media was all over it, telling us scary stories about the virus, jumping from birds to humans. Also telling us that potential of killing us, so a drug or vaccine needed to be created. Pharmaceutical companies where our saviour and started to create “Tamiflu” drug to help combat the virus and give us peace of mind to you and your family! But WHO (World Health Organisation) managed to contain the outbreak. And prevented the deadly Bird Flu virus from jumping from birds to humans. A lot of birds where slaughtered in the process of defeating the potential pandemic.

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Spread Betting and Chartism, have you seen the adverts where you can make £10,000 a week (through financial spread betting) with only an hour’s work and give up your day job. Trading strategies that can guarantee you £400 a day. Yes, yes we have all seen them. Do they work? No, these are get rich quick schemes that all of us dream off yet but rarely work. These elaborate courses teach you trading strategies that don’t need complex analysis. Just look at charts and once reach a certain level all you do is buy and sell. Easy as tying your shoe lace and no brains required. Even Bush could do it.

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