http://www.moneycrashers.com/what-are-your-financial-priorities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-your-financial-priorities personal finance blog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:07:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.moneycrashers.com/what-are-your-financial-priorities/comment-page-1/#comment-2374 Money Crashers The Guide to financial fitness for young people » Blog Archive » What Goes Into Making An Investment Decision? Wed, 03 May 2006 23:40:54 +0000 http://moneycrashers.com/?p=130#comment-2374 [...] What are the alternatives?  In terms of financial investments, you must always ask yourself what else you would be doing with this money if you did not invest it at this time.  This is a very important question to ask.  You should NEVER be investing money when you are having trouble paying your bills!  That just does not make sense.  This goes back to my post about setting your financial priorities.  You must have your financial priorities set before your start investing money.  On the other hand, if investing the money keeps you from buying stuff that you do not need, then you should probably invest it! [...] [...] What are the alternatives?  In terms of financial investments, you must always ask yourself what else you would be doing with this money if you did not invest it at this time.  This is a very important question to ask.  You should NEVER be investing money when you are having trouble paying your bills!  That just does not make sense.  This goes back to my post about setting your financial priorities.  You must have your financial priorities set before your start investing money.  On the other hand, if investing the money keeps you from buying stuff that you do not need, then you should probably invest it! [...]

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