Financial illiteracy is a growing problem throughout the world, and as the recent housing crisis has brought to light, it can have dangerous consequences. There are a few basic financial tips that everyone can use to increase their financial literacy the easy way, and many of these tips can help you save thousands of dollars over a period of just a few years. Let’s take a look at what you need to know:

1. Checking accounts must be balanced.

If you are not taking the time to balance your checkbook every month, your risks for overdrafts may rise and you may be spending more than you would like. S

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Carlson Hotels Signs with Huizhou Hai Chen Real Estate

Huizhou in China to welcome first Radisson Resort

Huizhou, China / Image via deltabridges.com

By eTN Staff Writer | May 24, 2010

BEIJING, China – Carlson Hotels announced today that it has signed its first Radisson resort in one of the region’s most sought-after holiday destinations, Huizhou, China. The agreement for the Radisson Plaza Resort Huizhou was signed today in Beijing between Hubert Joly, Carlson president, CEO, and director, and Zhao Xiao Xiong, chairman, Huizhou Hai Chen Real Estate Co.

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If you are somewhat like me, you are one of those people who would like to do something for the world and adapt a green life-style. Then this may be the best time to start thinking about using renewable energy for your home, place of work and automobile. Renewable energy covers a range of power sources such as solar energy, wind, geothermal and others witch is warmly called green energy. Just think being able to get rid of your electric bills, you would save tons of money while helping the surroundings.

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“Coinage is imprinted gold or silver, by which the prices of things bought and sold are reckoned…. It is therefore a measure of values. A measure, however, must always preserve a fixed and constant standard. Otherwise, public order is necessarily disturbed, with buyers and sellers being cheated in many ways, just as if the yard, bushel, or pound did not maintain an invariable magnitude.” ~Nicholas Copernicus, “Treatise on Debasement,” 1517 “

Humans are by nature capitalists, says Nathan Lewes, the author of Gold: The Once And Future Money, because of their need to invest time and effort for greater productive. However, th

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