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John A. Wilkins - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

John Wilkins is a former financial planner, free lance writer, and self employed consultant. His interests are finance, politics, and information technology. If you wish to have content written to your specifications please feel free to contact him directly at jawilkins@cox.net.

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  • Taxing the Rich to Help the Poor - The Morality of the Robin Hood Syndrome
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Has the story of Robin Hood been misinterpreted? Is it legitimate to tax (steal) from the "rich" and give to the poor? This article explores the possibility that Robin Hood is a tragically misunderstood figure and suggests solid reasons why taking from the rich to give to the poor may not be such a good idea after all.


  • Is Conservatism Dead in the GOP?
    [News-and-Society:Politics] What is to become of the GOP? Has it abandoned it's conservative roots? This articles makes some observations regarding the GOP ideology drift and provides some suggestions on how to repair the damage done.


  • Wealth Building 204 - Mutual Funds
    [Investing:Mutual-Funds] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this series of articles is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth. This article introduces the reader to the fundamentals of mutual fund investing.


  • Wealth Building 203 - Investment Vehicles
    [Finance:Wealth-Building] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this series of articles is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth. This segment provides the reader a basic understanding of the types of investment vehicles available.


  • Wealth Building 202 - Investment Strategy Building Blocks
    [Investing] In this segment we will begin to build some foundational knowledge that will help you to understand (or better understand) how investing works. At this point I am assuming that you have your budget under control and that you are saving for emergency spending, short term expenses, and long term goals.


  • Wealth Building 201 - Saving
    [Finance:Wealth-Building] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this series of articles is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth. This segment focuses saving, on a key discipline required for building true wealth.


  • Wealth Building 107 - Retiring Debt
    [Finance:Debt-Management] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this series of articles is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth. This segment focuses on debt retirement, a key facet of any wealth building strategy.


  • Wealth Building 106 - Credit Traps
    [Finance:Wealth-Building] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this series of articles is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth. This segment discusses credit traps and how to avoid them.


  • Wealth Building 105 - Debt (Part 2)
    [Finance:Wealth-Building] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this series of articles is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth. This is the second of a two part article on debt.


  • Wealth Building 103 - Budgeting (Part 2)
    [Finance:Personal-Finance] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this series of articles is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth. This is the second of a two part discussion on budgeting.


  • Wealth Building 104 - Debt (Part 1)
    [Finance:Wealth-Building] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this series of articles is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth. This is the first of a two part article on debt.


  • Wealth Building 102 - Budgeting (Part 1)
    [Finance:Budgeting] A wise man told me once, "If you take care of the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves". This advice has served me extremely well over the years and is the essence of wealth building. I look at budgeting kind of like a balloon with a pin hole. If you take a balloon and poke a little hole in it and try to blow it up, you may have some success at getting it to expand a bit for a while, but you'll notice that as the balloon gets bigger the hole gets bigger as well.


  • Wealth Building 101 - Financial Assessment
    [Finance:Wealth-Building] Wealth, it's the American Dream. We all want it, but to actually achieve it requires a basic understanding of personal finance, planning, and discipline. The goal of this, the first in a series of articles on the subject, is to help you examine your financial situation and provide some ideas that will help you to begin building your wealth.


  • Who is John Galt? Thoughts on Class Warfare in America Today
    [News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] The political rhetoric regarding the so called "rich" today is out of control. This is a reality check for those who continue to engage in class warfare.




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