Category: money

What Is the Future of Money?

Commentary We’re at a turning point in history. This could be said of many things, but it’s certainly true of the modern monetary system. Like most transitions in life and in history, the monetary system’s transformation is occurring slowly, then suddenly, in that the changes are almost imperceptible but then, like all cataclysms, will eventually…


When Parents Develop Attitudes of Entitlement

In my book, “Raising Financially Confident Kids (Revell, 2012),” I devoted an entire section on ugly attitudes of entitlement. It’s a common malady among children these days. The more children have, the more they want, and the more they feel entitled to have it. Ugly attitudes of entitlement in childhood often show up as mountains…


City Lights (1931)

He is a vagrant, penniless, who meets a blind flower girl, but cannot stand by and watch. He tries his best to raise enough money to pay for the flower girl’s treatment.   – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to…


A Travel Agent for Guilt Trips

Dear Dave, My dad and his wife asked my husband and me for $55,000. They want the money so they can pay off their debt. We’re debt-free and have a net worth of between $2 million to $3 million, but we’re also retired. We don’t keep that much in the bank, so we’d have to…


Go West (1925)

A drifter identified only as “Friendless” (Buster Keaton) sells the last of his possessions, keeping only a few trinkets and a picture of his mother. The money buys him only some bread and a sausage, then is gone. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films…


A Church Car? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!

Dear Dave, My mom took out a Parent PLUS loan in 2009 to help pay for my college education. I also took out $70,000 in student loans myself. My mom never made a payment on the loan she took out for me, and now the amount due on the Parent PLUS loan has ballooned to…


The Wrong Road (1937)

A young married couple (Cromwell and Mack), whose plans for their life together haven’t turned out as expected, decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get…


25 Ways to Improve Your Financial Situation in 1 Hour

Money is a complex topic, with thousands of books, websites, and podcasts dedicated to covering some aspect of the subject. It can also evoke a strong emotional response. Feelings of embarrassment, shame, frustration, anger, and more can keep people from addressing their financial situation. One solution is to carve up financial strategies into small, simple…


Make a Million (1935)

Professor Reginald Q. Jones (Charles Starrett), associate professor for social economics at Pelton University (founded in 1912), has a very clear picture of how in the United States economic inequality should be changed. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button…


Paradise Island (1930)

When a young girl visits a South Seas island to reunite with her finace she discovers that he is a no-good drunk and she is the object of everyone else’s attention. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the…