Debra L. Morrison

7 Ways To Boost Your Savings Account Without Compromising Your Lifestyle

Copyright (c) 2011 Ms Morrison Speaks Most people agree that growing your own savings account is very important. Yet, saving money can be difficult to do, consistently. It's difficult to add to a savings account when you find yourself living paycheck t... Read >

Don't Get Duped by High Yield Bonds

As much of the nation's focus is on the soon-to-be-passed Stimulus Bill, and the tragic Buffalo plane crash, there's other news that bears notice. This week, corporations have rushed to take advantage of the opportunity to raise capital, in order to pay d... Read >

Speaking of Hogs

I also read yesterday that one in five Americans aged 18-34 is obese! Yes, I have noticed the spread widening on Americans as we sidle up to yet our next buffet or super-sized fast food meal. I personally was in the Las Vegas audience last week when K... Read >

Can You Talk Money With Your Partner?

Conversation Starters... You need to talk. You need to talk money. You know it. But what you don't know is how to bring it up! How can you get your partner to listen to you and open up in turn? Here are a few tips not only on how to get a conversation ... Read >

Stop Cheating Already!

Don't we all know the saying, pigs get fatter, and hogs get slaughtered? Do I have to revert back to my farm days and produce pictures of pigs and hogs for people to be able to differentiate and understand? I mean here's to capitalism and all, yet good ... Read >

If Barack Can, We (too) Can Do It Women!

If Barack Obama can defy the terrific odds of being raised by his grandmother instead of a nuclear family, graduate Harvard magna cum laude, become a community organizer in Chicago in 1985, serve Illinois as their Jr. Senator from 1996-2004, win their US ... Read >

Risk/Reward, NOT Rewards, Rewards, Rewards

Bloomberg's morning's news reported that of 1,300 Wall Street executives canvassed about their 2008 bonuses, or lack thereon, 36% said they were disappointed in the amounts--expected more. Stop already! While I certainly know on my pulses that I have w... Read >

Inauguration provided much needed PAIN relief

Last Monday I sought and secured an apt with an acupuncturist seeking relief from excruciating leg and back pain. I've had some pain these past months, but Sunday it flared up in a new way - uber pain - and I needed relief. The highly trained and expert a... Read >

Watch out for Covert Capital Gains!

Hey all you smart mutual fund investors, listen up! Check your accounts on line now, or call your broker or investment company, to see if your fund issued any capital gains this month. That's right, even though your fund's value probably took a nose dive,... Read >

If you're not in, get in...

I congratulate all who have not sold out of their stock mutual funds, realizing that monies invested in the stock markets are there for the medium-to-long term goods and services that we will buy as we age. Yet I want to invite those who may have sold ... Read >

Only 2 More Days to Profit from your

Hey folks, Don't miss out on the salve for our investment wounds! Uncle Sam shares in our investment pain, by allowing us to tax-deduct our investment losses, but you must act in the next two days, you heard it, by 4pm EST on Wed., December 31st. Wh... Read >

NO interest in ZERO interest

I, for one, have NO interest in zero percent return on my money. Yet this weeks' traunch of 4-week US Treasury bills paying ZERO percent sold out! Yes, you read correctly; people stormed the Treasury to have the US Government hold their money, period, pay... Read >

Media's headlines and labels are laughable

What the media is writing about why the stock market is opening and closing at whatever level is pure guesswork, at best. Have you noticed that often the same circumstance or instance is listed and/or credited for the market's upturn AND downturn? Let... Read >

This Thanksgiving was different!

The cornucopia of plenty was ever so conspicuous this year, compared to previous year's that I'd taken pretty much for granted, since I've visited the Eritrean refugee camps in Africa this July where food and education were both in very short supply. Thes... Read >

Friday Fire Sale

I have been traveling so unaware of any local flyers as to exactly what time the sales will begin the day after Thanksgiving, but I'm guessing it'll be midnight this year. I've always thought Black Friday sounded too racist, so I prefer to call it Friday ... Read >