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A while back I ran a short little series outlining a few fun frugal weekend ideas and with Labor Day around the corner, I thought it’d be fun if we all shared some fun ideas we had planned for the weekend. It doesn’t have to be a frugal weekend idea but it does have to [...]
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Since we’ve discussed what money skills kids should know before they leave home, I was interested in seeing if the authors of Lessons to My Children: Simple Life Lessons for Financial Success, Wealth, and Abundance agreed with those thoughts. Here are the 11 lessons they list (with some explanation from me where needed): Lesson 1: [...]
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Over here there’s exactly one more week left before the fall college semester begins. In other places in the world you might be starting earlier or a later. Either way college is almost here. This is why I’ll be featuring articles strictly for college students. Also in order to offer more value to my readers [...]
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There’s a “special limited-time online offer” for Bank of America credit card holders (I put that in quotes because these promotions come and go all the time) when they open a MyAccess Checking account online. It’s an online only offer of $75 when you open a new MyAccess Checking account and make a qualifying deposit. [...]
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I was reading my latest issue of the Motley Fool Stock Advisor when I saw them use a term I’ve always found entertaining – ten-bagger. The newsletter itself was talking about how Netflix has become a ten-bagger since David Gardner’s recommendation in 2004. The term ten-bagger refers to a stock that is worth 10 times [...]
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Buying a home isn't the iron-clad investment opportunity it used to be, and economists are saying it never will be again. dvs/Flickr photo. A home mortgage was known as “the most important investment a person ever makes” for decades. Then the housing crisis arrived and long overstayed its welcome. Overinflated home values soon became artificially [...]
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American Express, in conjunction with Jean Chatzky, is sponsoring a National Money Talk Night on Thursday, September 16th 2010 in the hopes of providing young adults with a better understanding of managing their finances independently. Parents are asked to visit www.MoneyNightTalk.com to download and view available resources and ask as many questions as possible. Then, [...]
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My man, J Money, who runs the wild, awesome blog Budgets Are Sexy reminded me of an obscure article that I wrote last year about the Top Ten Personal Finance Bloggers you should follow on Twitter. Now, that I am a year older and a year wiser with over 1,000 tweets under my belt between [...]
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Many newer readers of The Simple Dollar haven’t been exposed to the hundreds of great articles in the archives of the site, so this is a weekly series that highlights the five best posts from one year ago this week, two years ago this week, and three years ago this week. I call it … [...]
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This guest post is written by Kevin of 20smoney.com. Financial security is something that most of us pursue, but many are failing to find these days. While financial security is achieved through a combination of sound financial practices such as budgeting, managing debt, investing and other personal finance activities discussed in this blog, there is [...]
And I tell you what, I’ve been lining up a whole BUNCH of other giveaways too to include (think iPods & books), so don’t say I didn’t warn ya. Mad prizes for my mad VIP friends baby!
about 7 months ago
People with bad personal finances are not able to make as many purchases, spend as much money, or save as much money. They get in debt, default on loans, and generally have a harder time managing money. They often do not save enough for retirement.
Bad personal finance is bad for the economy overall.
about 7 months ago
Thanks for the mention.
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about 7 months ago
no, unless you're willing to quit your job, and go do the labor that the undocumented workers do.
so you think the Republican's Guest Worker program is anything BUT amnesty??
sorry, but hiring the cheapest labor and making more profit is capitalism. if you don't like unregulated capitalism, maybe you should rethink your party affiliation next election.