I don't have any credit, but I also will graduate debt-free, so I am that much further ahead in that sense.I started "seriously" saving and investing my money around August when I opened a Roth IRA and started putting money in it every two weeks to invest in stocks, an index fund, and recently a couple of REITs.

Check out some of the posts on this site from 2009 related to the stock market, major doom and gloom and today we reached all time Dow highs.Those who invested in any commodity in 2009 ignoring the doom and gloom crowd has been well rewarded.

Since you are so consistent, applying that same consistent principle one can only come to the conclusion that Obama is an ACORN plant.What's ACORN been up to lately?

Have you read Principle Centered Leadership?

Money does not really enter or leave the stock market.

I had these same anxieties when I first started purchasing stock when I was 18, when I bought my first investment car note (I've only bought a few, but was crazy).

Stock?

It is amazing to me how many of the principles that are described are things I have learned over time while investing too.

I do have investing experience in other fields though which include stocks, mutual fund and online ventures.

By Jeff Tumbarello See pages 130-145 - a list of Banks the Government now OWNS due to its preferred stock holdings (which will soon be COMMON non-interest-bearing VOTING ownership)...http://sigtarp.gov/reports/congress/2009/SIGTARP_Initial_Report_to_the_Congress.pdfThe "easy" view?