Money and the Media…
Million Dollar Journey wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
If you rely on the media for guidance about money and investing you will soon find yourself lost in a forest of financial misinformation. Both the financial media and the mass media develop their information from sources within the financial community - lobbyists for a specific point of view that serves the bottom line of Behemoths, not your best interests.
Even worse, the well known “advisors” who appear on television and the radio are performers and pundits, not trained financial guides. Their goal is to sell advertising to support their “show” and books and tapes and seminars and speaking engagements to sell their next book, tape, seminar and speaking engagement. I have no problem with that; it’s free enterprise and it makes us all stronger. I do it myself, but in addition, I put my 35+ years of experience helping individuals, families and businesses small and large with money issues into the equation.
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