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.

US Mint catalog shows that there are already new types of pennies available. You can see them at Usmint.gov catalog page. They are on sale too.

Miami, Florida, like many other US cities, is suffering from a drastic rise in home foreclosures. According to foreclosure filing statistics from the Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts , county foreclosures in 2009 are up 62% since last year.

A friend of mine recently e-mailed me to let me know that there was some lost and missing money in my name waiting to be claimed. It was sitting idolly in an insurance premium that had been refunded and never claimed. I guess that she had been bored one day and just started searching for everyone that she knew. It’s not a bad idea, and many people can find missing money that the government and other companies owe them.

WASHINGTON -- As the Federal Government doles out billions of dollars to bolster up a faltering economy, many believe the government pool of giveaways has dried up -- but government money expert, Matthew Lesko, is not convinced.

In the world of "cut and thrust," humans try to bank money to obtain financial security, and often form cooperatives to reduce risks and increase gains. Many humans also end up in poverty traps, where because of meager resources and an increasingly high cost of living they find themselves unable to raise their heads above the parapet and "never make it."

Research has found that approximately two per cent of British pound coins in circulation are counterfeit, since the number of fake £1 coins has doubled in the past five years. This means approximately 30 million of these fake coins are currently in circulation.

China's Central Bank is issuing a special 10 yuan currency note to commemorate the Beijing Olympics, swapping the image of communist leader Mao Zedong for a picture of the city's iconic national stadium on Renminbi.

We will soon see how the long weekend affected investor's mood. Certainly, the stock market has on balance been acting badly for a month and the dominant mood is very gloomy.

This is a disturbing trend because I believe it will cause more cardholders to default. But the problems began long before consumers starting tapping their credit cards.

In a decade of an alarming credit crunch, rising cost of food, skyrocketed costs of living and an alarming debt for entertainment, most young people struggle to understand the basics of personal finance. This is from personal experience, observation and according to the results of a recently published government poll.