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October 2008

If this is your first time visiting, check out the story behind this blog. Otherwise, please join the others by subscribing to my RSS feed or get updates via email so you don’t miss any personal finance articles!The United States presidential race is entering the final stages and while most of us have probably [...]

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Everyone is trying to tell us that the economy will be better in the long run these days. While listening to President Bush’s reassurance did not help at all, a similar message from Warren Buffet made a big difference. All it really took was a quote from him that said “I am buying [...]

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Weekends have been much calmer for me these days than the weekdays as there is no need to work!  For some reason, now that I’ve handed off all my prior responsibilities, everyone started asking me to help out!  Sometimes I feel even busier than a few months ago but that’s okay because it’s getting closer [...]

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Even though the second stimulus check proposal was voted down a while ago, there are talks again surrounding the need for another one. Personally, I never really thought it was a great idea, as I share the view that we should really be spending money our social programs which are badly imbalanced at the [...]

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During each economic downturn, many business start to feel the need to trim their workforce because they believe it will help their bottom line.  Whether it’s a big corporation like Pepsico announcing a few days ago that it will cut 3,300 jobs from their work force or a small pet shop down the corner firing [...]

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I noticed that it’s pretty hard for me to buy something but it’s very easy for me to spend more on a product. What I mean is that I might contemplate on buying a $20 t-shirt but once I decide that buying a t-shirt is a right decision, I will gladly spend $60 even [...]

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In one of our dreaming moments during the weekend, Emma and I jokingly spoke about joining a private golf country club.  It was brand new, relatively close from where we live and also extremely nice.
The financial commitment to enroll were:

$30,000 to join (although that can be negotiated down to possibly $20,000 we heard) and 90% [...]

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My wife’s investment assets are about to be switched over to another brokerage firm. She’s always had an account at TD Ameritrade and when she changed jobs, we felt it was the natural choice to open a traditional IRA account there.
When she called to checkup on the status of the transfer a week after [...]

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