Books, TV and Movies

Morality in Doubt

Movie: Margin Call (2011).  Starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, and Demi Moore.  At a respected financial company, one of the victims of the downsizing is the risk management division head, who is working on a major analysis just as he is given his walking papers.  His protégé completes the …

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Personal Finance Software – Keep Your Money Alive and Healthy

Keeping finances organized seems like the most challenging job to do as business owner. Paying people to keep track of your budget and spending is tough, not to mention expensive. It has become increasingly more difficult for business owners to find reliable accounts and financial consultants. You just don’t know who you can trust anymore. …

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Amazon Prime Day

Amazon has announced the details for this year’s ‘Prime Day’ sale which will take place on Tuesday, July 12. What is Prime Day? It’s a one-day only global shopping event exclusively for Amazon’s Prime members. It’s a 24-hour Black Friday-like sales event where prices are slashed on hundreds of thousands of products. Prime Day Sale   Members in …

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Food Chain$

Documentary: Food Chain$ (2014). There is more interest in food these days than ever. Regular readers of this blog know that I often speak of physical fitness being a strong, and necessary complement to, fiscal fitness. That is a significant reason why I have morphed this space into a personal finance and lifestyle blog. It isn’t enough to be fiscally …

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Online Marketing for Busy Authors – A SavvyReview and Giveaway

Online Marketing for Busy Authors: A Step-by-Step Guide is the first book by Fauzia Burke, the founder and president of FSB Associates, one of the first firms to specialize in digital branding and online publicity. She has worked on books by Alan Alda, Dr. Larry J. Sabato, Brian Tracy, Charles Spencer, Joe Pantoliano, Marina Keegan, Kathy …

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Adaptive Asset Allocation – A SavvyReview

I looked forward to reading this book as the practice of properly allocating assets is critical for investors working toward a given financial goal such as retirement. ‘Asset Allocation’ is one of the first practices I learned on my own journey to financial freedom. The authors of Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic Global Portfolios to Profit in …

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Occupied

Television Series: Occupied (2015). In this fictional telling, in the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea. Regular readers of this blog know that I have discussed the need …

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