Comments on: Ten Signs Of Questionable Financial Writing http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/28/ten-signs-of-questionable-financial-writing/ Simple, applicable personal finance advice for the modern world Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cmauch http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/28/ten-signs-of-questionable-financial-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-594823 Cmauch Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:15:53 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/28/ten-signs-of-questionable-financial-writing/#comment-594823 As someone who works in the financial sector, I concur, and often have to point this out to members of my own company, and other people I work with. As someone who works in the financial sector, I concur, and often have to point this out to members of my own company, and other people I work with.

]]> By: Homo economicus http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/28/ten-signs-of-questionable-financial-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-120290 Homo economicus Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:21:11 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/28/ten-signs-of-questionable-financial-writing/#comment-120290 This is a really great article. It nicely pinpoints those gut feelings many of us have about the sleazy, cheezy, and hopefully unsuccessful marketing efforts of financial system shillers. I'd also like to add number 11. Statements that regularly need to be emphasized with exclamation points ! are good warning signs too. See #1 to 10 above as good examples of this. The one thing that I see as a recurring patten in the examples above and with many of these cheezy approaches to selling financial systems and approaches is that it involves shortcuts to learning the information yourself. As a society we seem to do this with many things: weight loss, finances, parenting, and more. Instead of doing the hard work everyone wants the shortcut to the top. Everyone wants to come out of school and step directly into an upper level management position without doing any of the work to get there. Warning: if it seems to good to be true... it probably is. I'm going to link to this article. This is a really great article. It nicely pinpoints those gut feelings many of us have about the sleazy, cheezy, and hopefully unsuccessful marketing efforts of financial system shillers.

I’d also like to add number 11. Statements that regularly need to be emphasized with exclamation points ! are good warning signs too. See #1 to 10 above as good examples of this.

The one thing that I see as a recurring patten in the examples above and with many of these cheezy approaches to selling financial systems and approaches is that it involves shortcuts to learning the information yourself. As a society we seem to do this with many things: weight loss, finances, parenting, and more. Instead of doing the hard work everyone wants the shortcut to the top. Everyone wants to come out of school and step directly into an upper level management position without doing any of the work to get there. Warning: if it seems to good to be true… it probably is.

I’m going to link to this article.

]]> By: rhbee http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/28/ten-signs-of-questionable-financial-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-36604 rhbee Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:18:15 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/28/ten-signs-of-questionable-financial-writing/#comment-36604 I couldn't help but notice that you used billion in the place of million. And you are right, we have become so out of touch with reality that a million doesn't seem like enough anymore. It reminds me a Dorothy Parker short story about two girl friends who work in New York and at lunch like to stroll past the windows of the high end jewelry stores and imagine what they'd buy with a thousand dollars. One day they decide to go inside and actually inquire about a piece they really admire. When they come outside, there's a pause and then they begin the game again only this time they have to imagine what they'd buy if they had a million. I couldn’t help but notice that you used billion in the place of million. And you are right, we have become so out of touch with reality that a million doesn’t seem like enough anymore. It reminds me a Dorothy Parker short story about two girl friends who work in New York and at lunch like to stroll past the windows of the high end jewelry stores and imagine what they’d buy with a thousand dollars. One day they decide to go inside and actually inquire about a piece they really admire. When they come outside, there’s a pause and then they begin the game again only this time they have to imagine what they’d buy if they had a million.

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