It seems that the awareness of understanding personal finances are an all time high lately. This is due to the recent downturn of the economy. It is still a good thing that everyone is starting to pay more attention to their own personal financial situations. That is why more and more schools are teaching personal finance.

Newport Beach Attorney, Violet P. Woodhouse Offers Tips and Advice at Mariposa Women’s Center Workshop

Being a Contrarian can be very lonely. Therefore, all Great Investors find themselves very lonely as only contrarians become Great Investors. Jeremy Grantham has been lonely a very long time, but he is what I consider a Great Investor, along side Warren Buffet, Bill Gross and Julian Robertson.

It is not surprising that as our economy continues its freefall, we are feeling increasingly more stressed and worried. Many of us are feeling extreme unease about the security of our jobs and being able to make our next mortgage payment.

Industry leaders to discuss long-term impacts and opportunities of the global financial crisis. Record number of participants expected to attend the 19th annual SRI in the Rockies Conference, October 26-28, 2008

On Monday SanDisk announced a new physical music format, called slotMusic, in concert with the four major music labels: EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. The new format is essentially an entire album on a MicroSD compact memory card and, according to the format's official site, retailers such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy are already lined up to stock the cards for the coming holiday season.

Tamerlane Ventures Inc. (TAM: TSX-V) announces today that, subject to regulatory approval, the Company has closed a non-brokered private placement of 500,000 Flow-Through Units at a subscription price of C$0.60 per Flow-Through Unit for gross proceeds of C$300,000. Each Unit comprised one Common Share and One-Half of One Common Share Purchase Warrant.

An SEI (Nasdaq: SEIC) poll released today revealed that while tax management is a major concern for both investment advisors and their clients, the industry is divided on how to optimize it.

Financial Crossing, the leader in financial liability management solutions, has launched its Independent Advisor Program, the first turnkey program that enables financial advisors to function as personal liability managers, providing mortgage and liability analysis, planning, monitoring, and execution in real time and on an ethical and objective basis.

AirTest Technologies (TSXV: AAT) is pleased to announce the Company is offering a non brokered private placement for securities for gross proceeds of up to $450,000. Pursuant to the terms of the private placement, the Company intends to issue up to 9,000,000 units at a price of $0.05 per unit.

Cardiome Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CRME/TSX: COM) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with CR Intrinsic Investments, LLC, an investment fund managed by CR Intrinsic Investors, LLC, an affiliate of S.A.C. Capital Advisors, LLC to purchase Series A convertible preferred shares for gross proceeds of US$25 million.

Century Mining Corporation (CMM: TSX-V) announced today that MRI Trading has not yet funded the $5 million tranche that it has agreed to fund in a binding agreement signed on May 30, 2008.