Invest $100,000 Now!

There's a stock market simulation at http://simulator.investopedia.com that allows you to invest $100,000 of fake money into the stock market.

This allows people who feel they don't have enough money or still not sure about the stock market to start learning how to actually invest in stocks. It's great for anyone looking to practice researching companies and investing in stocks to see if their stock choices will actually produce a good return. You can also compete with friends, family, and public groups to see who has the best stock picking skills.

As they say practice makes perfect. Get started now and learn about investing in stocks, so later on you will become a pro.

Here's the link,
http://simulator.investopedia.com

Be Financially Hip, VOTE RON PAUL!

If you are a young American and want to be Financially Hip just VOTE RON PAUL in 2008!

He tells the truth about the American dollar and why it has been recently depreciating so rapidly. Watch this video of Ron Paul schooling Ben Bernanke.

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Own MTV!

Who watched “The Hills” finale? Was it great or what?

Um… I’m just wondering was it any good?... because I didn’t see it.

Well, actually I’ve never even seen an episode of the show before, but I definitely know a lot of people who have and are truly in love with the show.

Here's an article about how many people watched the finale

Yes, shows like “The Hills” is amazing and drawing large viewings, especially young people, from all over the country and even around the world.

MTV which airs the show is doing pretty well with viewers between the ages of 12-35, so are other cable networks like VH1, Comedy Central, SpikeTV, and BET.

Imagine the amount of young viewers that those channels are receiving, it’s very big and many companies are probably willing to shell out tons of cash to get a chance to advertise to those happy spending youngsters. Those cable networks are doing very well and most of us young people just love their shows. MTV owns the youth, …..But can you own MTV?

All those television networks listed above are owned and operated by Viacom Inc. Viacom Inc is a huge multibillion dollar entertainment media corporation. They also own Nickelodeon and a number of different movie production studios, like Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, MTV Films, and Nickelodeon Movies brands. Paramount Pictures produces many blockbuster films every year, like Transformers. DreamWorks created the lovely green ogre Shrek, which came out with its third movie this past year.

Not only is Viacom into TV and movies, they are also in the video game business.
I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but MTV games, Harmonix and EA Games have worked together to create the game called “Rock Band”. The game allows players to pretend like they’re in a rock band, which allows people to live their dreams of always wanting to be in a rock band. In the game you can play the guitar, drums and even sing. Pretty Awesome! It’s currently available on the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3.

Click here to see the entire list of all the brands that Viacom owns:

Young people all around the world are fascinated by MTV and are completely consumed into its culture. Some people even say its the MTV generation. If you are one of the many young people out there participating in this crazy MTV generation, then why not truly be a part of it and profit from it.

Viacom Inc is a multibillion dollar corporation, I considered it to be a relatively safe investment. There is probably a very little chance that MTV and all those other brands will ever go bankrupt, nor would any of us let that happen. Viacom is heading in the right direction, focusing on the youth and living up to its hype.

If you are really interested in investing for the long term, why bother with boring investments like bonds and mutual funds you know nothing about when you can invest in the MTV generation.

Later on I will go over the fundamentals of the company, to prove why this is a solid investment.

I just thought I could remind everyone that cool, HiP investments are out there and people just have to be informed.

Consider investing in Viacom and it may one day help you get to “The Hills”.

Start a business? NaH...I'll just BUY ONE!

Ever dreamt of owning a company?
How about owning some of the largest companies in the world?
How about companies that you love and you’re a loyal customer to?

Well, what are you waiting for?

Seriously!

Companies like Apple, Nokia, Google, American Eagle, McDonalds and so much more can be owned by you, Right Now!

No, I’m not kidding, this is possible!

It’s called the stock market!

The stock market helps regular people like you and me be a part of this crazy consumerism and capitalistic world we live in today, by allowing us to partially own companies that we see everywhere.

People complain about ohhh...everyone is so materialistic and only cares about buying new stuff all the time…everyone has no soul…we shop and shop…take a coffee break…and shop some more.

Sounds depressing, but I think most of those people who say this just isn’t getting any.

Well, they just don’t get it. They are the ones who aren’t on the other side, the side earning the money from all this consumerism. Because with all that money being spent out there, someone has got to be receiving it.

When you buy something, that money you used goes to the company that produced the product. That money will then go to the owners of that company.

If you are an owner of a company, like American Eagle, every time someone buys anything from their store, some of that money belongs to you!

Well, how do you become a owner of a company? You purchase some of their stocks on the stock market. No, it’s not hard, it’s actually very simple.

The process of buying stocks is as easy as 123.
1. open a stock trading brokerage account (free, only takes 5 minutes)
2. place an order to buy some shares of a company (takes about 2 minutes)
3. sit back and watch the company succeed.

It’s really that simple, the only process that might take a lot of time is finding the right company to invest in (which I will help you later on), but that’s not to hard to do if you’ve read my other article “Find Gold in your Room”.

So to all those people complaining about consumerism, they just aren’t included on the other side where the money is being made.

If those people owned shares of a company, they too will begin encouraging everyone to keep buying things from that company because in the end some of that money will be theirs.

Remember, finding the right company and the right time to invest in it can take some time, but I am here to help. But in the end, you will be surprised on how easy it is to earn money with your own money without doing much work.

This is capitalism, so if you can’t beat them, might as well join them.

Find GOLD in your Room!

Investment opportunities are all around us, but most of us are not aware of them. Finding great investments is like finding gold, and one of the best places to discover that “GOLD” is in your own bedroom. You might think that your room only consists of smelly socks and dirty laundry, but there is an abundance of investment gold just disguised as regular products.

What kind of investment opportunities am I talking about? Let’s take a look around shall we? On your desk there might be a computer, maybe it’s a HP computer. Beside your computer there might be an Ipod or a Nokia cell phone. Let’s check out your wardrobe. You might see some American Eagle, Abercrombie & Fitch shirts or some Guess jeans. The list goes on and on, and you are probably wondering how all these products of yours can actually become investment opportunities.

All of those products you bought and now own are produced by companies that are now extremely successful all because of young people like you purchasing their products. Let’s take a look back two years ago at the stock prices of these companies that were just mentioned and compare them with their stock price right now.

Company	Nov. 2005 Price	Nov. 2007 Price	Total % Return
HP	$28	$51	82%
Apple	$70	$182	160%
Nokia	$17	$39	129%
American Eagle	$14	$23	64%
Guess	$17	$46	171%

As you can see all of those stocks went up in value during the past two year. The biggest gain came from Apple, whose Ipods have been flying off the selves, thanks to all the young people.

I am not saying that everything you buy is a good investment opportunity; it just takes a little research to determine if it actually is. Choosing an investment is like shopping for something expensive, when you are planning to buy that expensive product, you usually research and compare the product with others and try to find the best value. It’s the same when investing, doing a little research and comparing before making an investment decision will always make you feel more confident with the choice, and eventually be greatly rewarded.

From what I showed you, you can now see that a lot of products just in your own bedroom can become incredible investments.

Golden investment opportunities are everywhere, take advantage of it.

Better Safe than Sorry, I DON'T THINK SO!

Stocks can be very volatile and has the tendency to fluctuate a lot during a short period of time. Due to this volatility, people insist that investing in stocks is a dangerous thing to do when investing for the future. Everyone prefers to choose the safe and cautious savings bonds to invest their money. Stocks are wild and dangerous, while Bonds are boring and safe. It's like comparing me to my grandparents.

However, no matter how wild stocks may be they almost always turn out to produce the best investment returns in history, helping many people become millionaires.

The only reason stocks can be a bad investment choice, is when your saving for the short term. Stocks fluctuate so much that it is extremely difficult to predict if your stock will increase in value during a short period of time. But if you are planning to save for the long term, stocks are by far the best performing investment vehicle.

If you are planning to save money that won’t be needed in at least a couple of years or more, than investing in stocks is the best place to achieve substantial returns.

Now be careful, diversification is very important, and I wouldn’t recommend anyone putting all their money into stocks. There is a saying that goes “don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” which means if something unexpected happens to the stock market you don’t want to be stuck with all your savings invested in the market. I’ll talk about diversification and asset allocation later on.

But first I need to encourage you to begin investing in stocks. Stocks have always been the best performing investment in recent history.

Here’s a chart comparing the annual returns of the stock market compared to savings bonds over the past 30 years:

As you can see the stock market returns were very unstable, but they still provided excellent returns almost every year.

The average annual stock market return for the past 30 years was 13.75%, while the average annual savings bond only returned 6.15%.

If you had invested $1000 back in 1976 into stocks you would have $47,403 by the end of 2006.

If you had invested the $1000 in bonds you would only have $5992 by the end of 2006.

Stocks offer the best returns and should not be ignored when investing for the future. I will eventually show how you can get even bigger returns if you learn how to discover and find great investment opportunities.

Remember stocks are volatile in the short term, but in the long term you will always be better off invested in stocks. Don’t be scared, know what you're doing and be prepared to stay invest for at least a couple of years. Investing in stocks may seem like a wild choice, but honestly it may be the greatest financial choice you make.

Be young and wild, start investing in stocks now!