This is where thoughtful financial advisors and our friends weigh in on money and our personal and cultural relationships with it.

Those of us who work with people, their money and their choices get to see a lot.  In our own lives and together with clients, we have directly experienced the power of money and the money forces.  This is a place for communicating.  Here, we can talk about money and our observations concerning its strengths, weaknesses and possibilities.

We will be sharing our money perspectives on widely diverse issues from current events, the human condition, history and our various crises and challenges.
As we explore issues ranging from psychology and spirituality to economics, sustainability and social structures, we will address the manners in which money has insinuated itself into our lives.  In turn, you will be given opportunities to provide your own perspectives and ask questions of others.

The blog vehicle gives us the capacity to approach ourselves and our social groupings from an array of perspectives.  This means we can provide “drilling platforms” for people who want to go deep into their subjects without being wedded to a particular “school” or philosophical persuasion.  Or we can network and link different perspectives, skill sets and disciplines.  When it comes to money and financial planning, we don’t need to agree but we do need to work on the improved understandings that can come only through free and open exchanges of ideas and viewpoints.

In addition to our other features, we will be publishing personal blogs for various individuals.  What they have in common is passion for approaching money and/or financial planning issues from unique viewpoints.  This means a lot of freedom and wide-ranging subject matter.

We are committed to keeping InsideMoney.org fresh and inviting.  This will include regular columns and guest blogs for people making one time contributions.
Regular bloggers will have substantial creative freedom to address their topics as they see fit.  The charters are broad.  They should enable huge creativity.

Though, we hold both bloggers and commentators to certain standards of language, spelling, grammar and topicality, content within this charter is essentially up to the blogger.  The mission is to generate ideas and conversations about money in all of its many dimensions.

The worldwide web gives us robust capacity.  We need to move our personal relationships with money from the closet to broader conversations.

Thanks for joining us.

Dick Wagner
Editor, InsideMoney.org