Instead of giving money or a loan, you share your knowledge, expertise, or just advice to help them improve their lives.

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The simple answer is that foreigners have too much money and too little local knowledge or power.

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If you're not a security analyst or money manager with a broad knowledge base covering a range of industries, forget about annuals and concentrate on the proxy statement.

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Owners know how much money they are making (or losing), but players have little knowledge and plenty of suspicion.

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Under capitalism power flows to precisely the people who are willing to stake their money not on gambles or sure things but on testable hypotheses, thus generating knowledge and wealth for society.

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Therefore, to move along the scale to consciously or unconsciously competent, you need to work on HOW you think about money, which is a completely different skill than having specific knowledge about investments or other personal finance topics.

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But having all that knowledge is far different from applying it to make (or save) money in the markets.

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Central bankers simply do not have the knowledge necessary to fine-tune the economy or to determine the optimal quantity of money.

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