http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Tracy+Piercy Finances Tracy Piercy Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=325901&ca=Finances The “giving season” is nearly upon us! Not only are the malls full of Christmas decorations, and the advertisements full of toys and perfume, our mailboxes are full of year-end charity fundraising requests too. While most charities operate and have expenses year-round, they have learned that the lar... Finances Tracy Piercy Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=318078&ca=Finances There's nothing like a dramatic move in the stock market to make people who are otherwise not very financially involved stand up and take notice every day. Suddenly, everyone is talking about whether the market is up or down. It's good to become more financially aware, but what do these daily market... Finances Tracy Piercy Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=262120&ca=Finances Are we a culture so narrow-minded that we can only see personal finance as a “vertical” process of stacking away our savings like bags of flour during a food crisis? Everywhere you turn a news article lectures us about the importance of saving money because personal debt is out of hand and savings r... Finances Tracy Piercy Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=216862&ca=Finances Don't tell me you haven't made any money mistakes - better yet, don't tell yourself you haven't made any money mistakes. Everyone makes them and I don't mean just the big ones - on a day-to-day basis, we are all guilty of making money decisions that are not supportive of our bigger vision for our li... Advice Tracy Piercy Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=286245&ca=Advice “I paid too much for it, but it’s worth it.” – Samuel Goldwyn Who hasn’t felt that way about a purchase from time to time? When it comes to being in control of money and sticking to a pre-set spending plan, most people feel that splurging is a bad thing. However, according to Harvard Business Schoo... Finances Tracy Piercy Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=242996&ca=Finances A successful investor friend of mine recently invited me to hear a well-known tax professional speak on strategies to minimize your tax bill. The presenter spoke for an hour about simple strategies, and then he offered the audience an opportunity to purchase what he described as a “no brainer” strat... Career Tracy Piercy Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=258768&ca=Career Today, it seems all too common that young people have very little appreciation for the concept of “work ethic”. The implications of this as it relates to the near crisis financial statistics in North America are huge. Jobs are prolific and as a result, many young people don't seem to understand comm... Advice Tracy Piercy Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=205797&ca=Advice I'm a financial educator by calling and by profession. But when you get to know me and my family, you will discover fairly quickly that we are collectors of old, fun or unusual things. Some people might call it junk, and in fact that's exactly where my husband finds many of our treasures - in the ju... Finances Tracy Piercy Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=207049&ca=Finances What do you need to have in order to put together a financial plan? Money, of course, or access to it. And money, it seems, never stays still. It either grows over time, or shrinks away, but like water, it has to flow to stay healthy. So why doesn’t your financial advisor discuss the income and cash...