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Opening a debt consolidation business requires the appropriate training as a liability specialist, registration with the appropriate reporting agencies and ample advertising to build up a clientele. Star a debt management company from the ground up with money advice from a registered financial consultant in this free video on personal finance.

Expert: Patrick Munro
Contact: www.northstarnavigator.com
Bio: Patrick Munro is a registered financial consultant (RFC) with outstanding sales volume of progressive financial products and solutions to the senior and boomer marketplace.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

Saving: 8 Laws of Saving Money: Budgeting Your Savings and Debt, Managing Your Personal Finance That Doesn’t Suck FREE BONUS BOOK Have you ever been thinking that it’s time to start saving money, but you just can seem to get around to it? Personal finance sometimes feels like a money management burden that will never leave you debt free. In fact, Thomas Jefferson felt the same way. He had some very profound feelings about debt in both his public and private worlds, and he left behind some wise insight that allows us to realize we’re all in the same boat, with the same worries. In this book Saving Money: The 8 Laws of Saving Money we cover 8 great money saving strategies and rules that will change your way of thinking about frugal living, and budgeting for beginners. Of course, we do this with a little help and insight from the words of Thomas Jefferson himself. Law 1: Saving is Symbolic and Debt is Symbolic We have to look past the abstract about what money symbolizes and see it for what it really is. We have to do the same with debt, and when it becomes clear that debt is a form of slavery we might think twice about volunteering for slavery. Law 2: It’s Time to Break It Down Let’s break down where the most obvious money habits that fail you. Remember, we’ve going to learn how to save money in a way that doesn’t suck, so first we cull the stuff we don’t care about. This activity will help with that challenge. Law 3: Think of Your Savings Like It’s a Bill That Must Be Paid to Yourself How frustrating when this rule is so much easier said than done. Let’s discuss the reality of this concept, and find out how to make it happen. Law 4: Start Making Comparisons about the Services You Subscribe To This where the meat of your savings happens. You don’t need to cut into the quality of your life like you think you might, and you can still save hundreds of dollars a month. Law 5: Don’t be Fooled by the Smoke and Mirrors of the Guy Standing Next to You Keeping up with the Jones’s is the biggest scam society ever made you believe. Cause the Jones’s might be stupid with their personal finance. Learn to be smarter than the next guy, not fooled into consuming every shiny thing. Law 6: Don’t Make Emotional Money Decisions Don’t be tripped up over your emotions. Learn a few useful skills to work with those emotional feeling.Discover when it’s time to buy the thing you love, and when to turn and walk away. Law 7: Know Your Team Not everybody cares about your success. Identify who to work with and who to say no to when it comes to digging into your pockets. Law 8: Small Goals vs. Big Goals We all have the goal that drives us to financial success, but you want to discover how the small goals will help you achieve the bigger ones. In fact, you might need to buy that laptop and reward yourself, if you want to make it to that big dream goal. Tags: saving money, saving money tips, personal finance that doesn’t suck, hot to save money, a guide to saving money, save money tips, money management, frugal living, frugal living tips, debt free, debt free living, debt to pay, budgeting for beginners, budgeting and finance, personal finance books,

If you’re trying to kick the “Buy Now/Pay Later” habit and get your spiraling debt under control, you need “Managing Debt For Dummies” now! This practical, commonsense guide provides straightforward strategies for coping with every kind of secured and unsecured debt, including, personal loans, car loans, mortgages, home equity loans, lines of credit, credit cards, finance company loans, and student loans. You’ll find out how easy it is to: Distinguish between good and bad debt Go on a “debt diet” to get back into financial shape Start a filing system to track debt and protect life after debt Adopt a smart spending regimen Increase your income Consolidate your debt Decide which bills to pay when you can’t pay them all Use credit cards responsibly

You can still live well while slashing spending on groceries, clothing, and entertainment. Find out how in “Managing Debt for Dummies.”

The underexamined art and science of managing the federal government’s huge debt.

Everyone talks about the size of the U.S. national debt, now at $13 trillion and climbing, but few talk about how the U.S. Treasury does the borrowing even though it is one of the world’s largest borrowers. Everyone from bond traders to the home-buying public is affected by the Treasury’s decisions about whether to borrow short or long term and what types of bonds to sell to investors.

What is the best way for the Treasury to finance the government’s huge debt? Harvard’s Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson, Joshua Rudolph, and Larry Summers argue that the Treasury could save taxpayers money and help the economy by borrowing more short term and less long term. They also argue that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve made a huge mistake in recent years by rowing in opposite directions: while the Fed was buying long-term bonds to push investors into other assets, the Treasury was doing the opposite selling investors more long-term bonds.

This book includes responses from a variety of public and private sector experts on how the Treasury does its borrowing, some of whom have criticized the way the Treasury has been managing its borrowing.

Shipping imperfect software is like going into debt. When you incur debt, the illusion of doing things faster can lead to exponential growth in the cost of maintaining software. Software debt takes five major forms: technical, quality, configuration management, design, and platform experience. In today’s rush to market, software debt is inevitable. And that’s okay—if you’re careful about the debt you incur, and if you quickly pay it back.

In Managing Software Debt, leading Agile expert Chris Sterling shows how understanding software debt can help you move products to market faster, with a realistic plan for refactoring them based on experience. Writing for all Agile software professionals, Sterling explains why you’re going into software debt whether you know it or not—and why the interest on that debt can bring projects to a standstill. Next, he thoroughly explains each form of software debt, showing how to plan for it intelligently and repay it successfully. You’ll learn why accepting software debt is not the same as deliberate sloppiness, and you’ll learn how to use the software debt concept to systematically improve architectural agility. Coverage includes

Managing tensions between speed and perfection and recognizing that you’ll inevitably ship some “not quite right” code Planning to minimize interest payments by paying debts quickly Building architectures that respond to change and help enterprises run more smoothly Incorporating emergent architecture concepts into daily activities, using Agile collaboration and refactoring techniques Delivering code and other software internals that reduce the friction of future change Using early, automated testing to move past the “break/fix” mentality Scripting and streamlining both deployment and rollback Implementing team configuration patterns and knowledge sharing approaches that make software debt easier to repay Clearing away technical impediments in existing architectures Using the YAGNI (“you ain’t gonna need it”) approach to strip away unnecessary complexity

Using this book’s techniques, senior software leadership can deliver more business value; managers can organize and support development teams more effectively; and teams and team members can improve their performance throughout the development lifecycle.

Awareness of design smells – indicators of common design problems – helps developers or software engineers understand mistakes made while designing, what design principles were overlooked or misapplied, and what principles need to be applied properly to address those smells through refactoring. Developers and software engineers may “know” principles and patterns, but are not aware of the “smells” that exist in their design because of wrong or mis-application of principles or patterns. These smells tend to contribute heavily to technical debt – further time owed to fix projects thought to be complete – and need to be addressed via proper refactoring.

Refactoring for Software Design Smells presents 25 structural design smells, their role in identifying design issues, and potential refactoring solutions. Organized across common areas of software design, each smell is presented with diagrams and examples illustrating the poor design practices and the problems that result, creating a catalog of nuggets of readily usable information that developers or engineers can apply in their projects. The authors distill their research and experience as consultants and trainers, providing insights that have been used to improve refactoring and reduce the time and costs of managing software projects. Along the way they recount anecdotes from actual projects on which the relevant smell helped address a design issue.A comprehensive catalogue of structural design smells and their refactoring solutions to solve problems occurring in designExplains the importance of smells in managing technical debt, an area of increased concern at software engineering conferencesEach smell includes examples, source code, and visualization diagrams to facilitate understandingDescribes solutions across common software design concepts and smells that cross multiple domains

In 2013, student loan debt in the US passed $1 trillion. That’s more than our total amount of credit card debt and automobile debt. Graduates are starting out with poor employment prospects, obscene levels of debt, and few tools to help. Adam S. Minsky is a leading expert in student loan debt. He is renowned as a pioneer in student loan law as the founder of one of the first law firms in the country devoted entirely to helping student borrowers. With few resources available for student borrowers navigating byzantine repayment systems, he wrote this book as a practical, easy-to-read guide for managing your student debt. Whether your loans are federal or private, in good standing or in default, this guide identifies your options and helps you determine the best way forward.

First came the financial and debt crisis in Greece, then government financing difficulties and rescue programs in Ireland in 2010 and Portugal in 2011. Before long, Italy and Spain were engulfed by financial contagion as well. Finally in 2012, the European Central Bank pledged to do “whatever it takes” to preserve the euro area with purchases of government bonds, a step that achieved impressive results, according to William R. Cline in this important new book.

One of the world’s leading experts on fiscal and debt issues, Cline mobilizes meticulously researched and forceful arguments to trace the history of the euro area debt crisis and makes projections of future debt sustainability. He argues that euro area leaders made the right decision to keep the euro from breaking apart but warns against complacency about the future. Cline contends that troubled European economies should continue their fiscal consolidation but that further debt restructurings for most countries are not called for. Greece is a special case and may need some further debt relief contingent on continued progress on fiscal and structural reform, however. In this landmark study, Cline offers a detailed analysis of the mistakes, successes, and options for Europe as it struggles to overcome its worst economic disaster since World War II.