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Valerie Coleman Morris
Emmy award winning journalist, Valerie Coleman Morris is the former Business Anchor for CNN domestic and international. She focuses on her passion, financial literacy for women, young adults and people of color - the most disenfranchised segments of the population concerning money issues.
Morris will continue to write and narrate the nationally syndicated radio column which she created in 1986 called With the Family in Mind - that focuses on family and sandwich generation issues and their money implications - which airs on CBS Network Radio three times a week.
Read moreDo You Handle Your Money or Does Your Money Handle You?
There are basic financial fundamentals that we all need to address every year. It’s a brand new year and time for all of us to get a financial grip!
The timing couldn’t be better.
“Un-healthy Health Insurance Policies”
When times are hard, opportunists look for soft landings which is just another way of saying they look for easy targets. I don't want you to be one of them.
It's truly a perfect and decidedly unhealthy storm in our country's health care arena: the recession, high unemployment and the prolonged debate among lawmakers regarding health care reform. For women of a certain age – surviving the health care reform storm means knowing the facts and acting like it.
Mind Over Money Matters
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I was born Thanksgiving week and as a child relished the fact that there were birthday parties for me – everywhere! My Dad planted that seed to counteract the sting of my older boy cousin’s annual taunt: “Happy birthday, turkey!”
This Thanksgiving 2009, I’m thankful that we are closer (though still a long way to go) to the end of this brutal recession and that I’ve had the opportunity to provide you some tools/information with which to rebalance your financial lives going forward.
Wall Street – From Bailout to Bonuses
Goldman Sachs, Wall Street's top firm, has set aside $16.7 billion for bonuses to top employees. That's up 46% from the bonuses the firm gave a year ago. Paid at year's end, this chunk of money is compensation and benefits for the first nine months of 2009. The New York Times says it's enough to pay each of Goldman's bonus qualifying workers $527,192.
The Lessons from Aunt Erleen
My Aunt Erleen was my mother’s eldest and only sister. She was my idea of great entertainment. With the Family in Mind – for Women of a Certain Age.
Family as the New Model of Diversity
Diversity is the most compelling issue for the new century and the new economy. That's why I want to share my thoughts with you, women of a certain age - about linking diverse philosophies to your bottom line personal and professional goals.
Will Shakespeare had a point
It was Shakespeare who so eloquently suggested: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." I think he was talking about preservation - of one's money and one's friendships/relationships.
There's an immense transfer of wealth that's about to take place in America and it's of historic proportion.
That had been the news, the expectation, and the declaration regarding the financial future of the Baby Boomer Generation a dozen years ago as we began turning 50. The prediction was that as a group, Boomers stood to inherit trillions from our parents.
Before you start spending the promise, let me update you on the reality.
