International Women’s Day is here again, and this year the theme is “Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all.” We can’t really argue with that, can we? Because while steps have been made, and laws have been enacted, there is still too much inequality between the sexes.
The tables, however, could be turning. There has been [...]

The Business Insider’s research arm—TBI Research—issued a report this week by Rory Maher that outlines Apple’s strength in the education market and how it will help channel the flow of iPads into the mainstream of educational-media production and consumption.
Set aside all the years Apple (AAPL) has invested in the education market with discounts, dealer [...]

With Stagecoach Island University open and accepting new students, how many of you have gone in and enrolled? Let me know how your first islander day in the SI University went!
The whole place is pretty sweet, and there are lots of great resources to check out. I got a chance to catch up with Shag [...]

*Hip, hip hooray!*
SI University is now open for all you islanders to check out and enroll! All you have to do to get started is make a stop at the SI Admissions office and get started.
How you ask? Well, it’s pretty simple: Just go through the lesson and pass the quiz!
For those [...]

New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) is one of those mytho-poetic phenomena in the U.S. manufacturing sector: a car plant, developed as a cooperative venture between General Motors (MTLQQ) and Toyota, located in Northern California (read: not the decaying industrial heartland). It’s been around since the 1980s, but now GM and Toyota are unwinding their [...]

The other day I characterized Cadbury’s ever-changing, contradictory positions on Kraft’s (KFT) bid for the company as “comical.” Today, the whole thing has become a full-on farce involving not only Cadbury (CBY) (Kraft has remained wisely silent), but also the Wall Street Journal and the rest of the business media.
The headline today is that Cadbury [...]

Of all the insults that the consumer banking industry has hurled at the public’s intelligence in the fight over noxious fees—29 percent credit card interest, arbitrary rate hikes, and the rest of its shoddy practices—the most galling is the argument that for the government to intervene in any of this would be to hamper competition [...]

Filed under: Stocks to Buy
In June, the argument was made that Wall Street’s haircut of Vulcan Materials to $34 from more than $100 was way overdone.
So far, that argument looks good, and I’m therefore Reiterating my Buy rating for Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC), first recommended on June 3, 2009 at a price of $46.26. [...]

Young Americans Center for Financial Education at Belmar

401 South Pierce Street
Lakewood, Colorado 80226
ph 303-321-2265
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Our Belmar facility is three blocks east of Wadsworth and one block south of Alameda – next to the The Learning Source. This facility houses Young AmeriTowne only – no banking activity.
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