Happy Valentine’s Day in advance to all my readers! In celebration of the upcoming valentine’s day, I am participating on thousands of bloggers out there giving valentine gift ideas to a lot of readers. With the thriving economy nowadays, a lot of us were left unemployed. We need to be more frugal in spending our valentine’s day and so here are some of my unique valentine gift ideas that will truly show how much you care for her this valentine’s season: Valentine Gift

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John Gokongwei life story is another rags to riches success story of a true Filipino Taipan entrepreneur. His business empire company known as John Gokongwei Summit Holdings, Inc. or J.G. Summit Holdings, Inc. for short has been one of the most successful conglomerate in the Philippines today competing with more solid names such as SM Malls, PAL, and Ayala. It has business interests in branded consumer foods (Universal Robina Corp.), real estate property development (Robinson’s Land Corp.),

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Life is like a game of chances. You can win or you can lose. Everyday, we are faced with challenges, which can either lead us to become a winner or a loser. Learning financial literacy is essential to increase your chances of winning the game of life. Consequently, it is best to play the cash flow game to gauge how well did you grasp the concepts in winning the game of money. Recently, I watched another video again of Robert Kiyosaki as now he talks about the so-called Game of Money where he

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I’ve been involved in the distressed investments industry ever since I started my employment. I was lucky being hired by an asset management firm in charge of due diligence of huge distressed debts and assets of the acquiring vulture fund investor. It was stressful and at the same time exciting career opportunity. According to the latest study of debtwire on distressed debt outlook for North America and Europe for 2009, a lot of investors is waiting until the second quarter of 2009 to

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Bernard Madoff, the latest scandal in Wall Street pegged as the largest ponzi scheme, is the featured article on the spotlight! I was watching Bloomberg News last night when his case was being heard at the court hearing. The speaker relentlessly told that it was the fault of Securities and Exchange Commission’s lack of regulation that led to the largest ponzi scheme worth about $50 Billion.   But how did it go? Being a former Chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange, Bernard Madoff had a

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Each day that we wake up, we are bombarded with choices. Should I take a bath first or eat breakfast? Should I watch tv first or sleep early? When we are about to take our course on college, we are left with a lot of choices to make. What course should I take in? What do I want to be when I grew up? What would be my future job? When we are settling down, we are left to choose which one of them should I marry? Will she be right for me? Each time we make a choice, we make our future. It’s

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I just finished reading the ebook “The Millionaire Next Door” written by Thomas J. Stanley and Willam D. Danko where they conducted a research case study and surveyed American Millionaires. Who becomes wealthy? What do they do? How did they become millionaires? Or you can ask yourself, “Can I ever become one of them?” In their case study, usually the wealthy and millionaires are businessmen who have lived in the same town for all their adult life. They have married once and

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