Seeing through the hocus bogus

This article was first published in the April 2009 issue of Smart Investor magazine. The global financial crisis uncovered Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford for fraudulent financial operations – highlighting the possibility of other scam opportunists who will try to take advantage of desperate investors during this bleak period. With......

Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover - Book Review by Panzer

Panzer’s penchant for performing book reviews surfaces again as I embark on my next series reviewing Dave Ramsey’s “Total Money Makeover” that took me a weekend to read but many more sessions to digest each of his 7 Baby Steps. This 7 parter will be less intense that the previous......

Your Money or Your Life: Panzer's Book Review

Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Personal Independence I had heard of this book many times through surfing the net for personal finance websites and blogs and finally decided to order this instead of borrowing it from the public library on a whim. What a decision it was… :-) Unlike most......

Financial Freedom: Money is Not Everything

As I traverse along this journey towards my goals in financial freedom, I’ve come to some realisations that challenge my entire view of what it means to be financially free. In the beginning, I thought what everything was thinking. To be financially free means to be able to buy anything and......