[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '[')b]I'm in Beijing right now, and it is every bit as wealthy looking as Tokyo.

[peeker01]

everybody here on po knows speculators are not the issue. so why did forbes publish
this crappy article.

http://blogs.forbes.com/afontevecchia/2 ... nd-silver/

[Outcast_Searcher]

Forbes, IMO, writes LOTS of crappy articles. With access to the web, I can't fathom WHY ANYONE with a brain would subscribe it. (Perhaps hard right wingers who want to hear Steve Forbes' point of view, I guess).

There are LOTS of mediocre (or worse) cheap financial magazines around like "Money", "Business Week", "Forbes", etc, etc, etc. For the beginner before the internet age -- yeah, I read two of these for a few years in the 80's.

Now?

If you can afford reasonable quality, "The Economist" and "The WSJ" (despite increasing quality problems and an inherently super-right-wing editorial slant) puts these rags so badly to shame that it's just astounding to me that they stay in business.

Now, if they'd adopt a hard LEFT point of view so the Obama aministration would want to subsidize them to "save or create jobs", THEN I would understand their business model...

[Tyler_JC]

The trouble with magazines like Forbes, Money, etc. is that there isn't a whole lot of real new content.

Managing money is actually pretty easy. Don't buy stuff you can't afford. Take advantage of 401k plans with a company match. Diversify your investments. Pay off high interest credit card debt. And so on.

It's all very basic advice that is appropriate for most people most of the time.

Beyond that, there isn't a whole lot for "Money" to write about every month. Sure, there might be a couple new investment opportunities but they won't be appropriate for most people most of the time. Similarly, there might be a policy change but it shouldn't take more than a page or two to explain why this matters to people.

How many articles are there called, "10 ways to cut down credit card debt"?

Isn't there really only one way? Spend less than you earn and use the savings to pay off the highest interest bearing account first.

The articles usually boil down to some insultingly trite advice about cutting out your daily latte to save $4/day.

[topcat]

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