DINKs’ Videos

As our long time readers are well aware, James loves to search out both short and long videos that are helpful in learning more about finances and keeping up with the current economic conditions. Check out videos that we’ve highlighted by topic. Enjoy!

Basic Finances
How to organize your personal finances, financial planning 101, understanding inflation, understanding basic financial terms, how to negotiate, buy vs. leasing a car, saving versus paying off credit cards, how to get out of credit card debt, where to turn for financial help, finance education for kids, and pet insurance

Taxes
Kiplinger’s Five Things About Your Taxes and Investments, how to adjust your IRS withholdings, changes to 2009 taxes, tax refund anticipation loans are a rip off, and a tax protest. Plus fun stuff like “I pay my Taxes,” by the TaxBoys or Vanilla Ice Tax Rap.

Saving Money
Saving money in 2009, protect yourself from inflation, necessity versus luxury, save big on food, how to negotiate, saving versus paying off credit cards, The opposite of saving, check out videos at Spendster.org to see videos of people’s spending confessions.

Investments & Retirement
Turning 12k into two million day trading, pump and dump stock scams, Plus the fabulous School House Rock with Walkin’ on Wall Street. Ben Stein on retirement; Part I, II & III

Couples’ Videos
Merging finances before marriage, five steps to marriage bliss, dealing with spousal money conflict, why married couples should be nice to each other, for money or love, getting ready for baby,

Helpful Tips
How to get a real person on the phone.

Credit Cards
How to adjust to the changing credit card market, how to get out of credit card debt, saving versus paying off credit cards, credit counseling pitfalls, talking your way out of credit card debt,

Ben Stein and the history of American credit card use.

Finance Gurus
Milton Friedman on welfare, on tarrifs, on economics and the war on terror, on libertarianism, on small government and freedom, on spending money,

Warren Buffet on the Charlie Rose Show, Warren Buffet on Business, how Warren Buffet got his start,

Bob Kiyosaki tips, Battle of Finance Gurus, Loral Langemeir on building wealth, and Wu-Tang Financial.

Contemporary Finance Issues
Coming fall of the middle class by Elizabeth Warren, Bob Johnson on Wealth and African Americans, minorities and wealth, Stephen Levitt’s Freakonomics and city gangs theory, money as debt, and homelessness and why you should save money.

Islamic finances and Islamic banking explained.

Financial Crises
Understanding the financial crises, laissez-faire versus interventionism, is inflation the answer, making sense of banking in the 21st century, comptroller general blows the whistle, or check out the bailout for santa. money, banking, and the Federal Reserve.

Lohn Johns on the subprime meltdown (long before the real meltdown), what are subprime lenders, the weak housing market, foreclosed homes being bulldozed, tent cities in the US, the rise of china,

Check this video of current Obama White House adviser Larry Summers being subjected to a protest while he is giving a live audience interview, or Gietherner’s Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP).

Money Mistakes
Five reasons not to buy extended warranties, avoid pay loan nightmares and why pay loans are a bad idea, avoid poor financial choices, more bad financial decisions, and pump and dump stock scams.

Mike Gravel – a democratic presidential candidate – is explaining the reasons why he decided to declare bankruptcy.

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