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Kiva.org - Loans That Change Lives

$25 — the minimum loan — makes so little difference in our Western lives: a movie for two (without popcorn), half a tank of gas. But in the developing world, it can be the capital required to escape poverty, build a life and educate a family. Kiva works with experience micro-lenders on site, and the results have been remarkable.

What a privilege it is to be able to contribute — so simply — to real change in the world!

Importants lessons shared by someone who has learned them the hard way …

Bernie Madoff, economy, scandal, investments | Salon Life

I was fleeced by Madoff

The financial guru’s Ponzi scheme cost me 30 years of retirement savings. How could he do this to me — and why did I let him?

By Geneen Roth

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