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!CNN Money has an article on 6 financial adviser’s favorite strategy to navigate the tough times. [...]
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These days, our government is working around the clock to come up with plans to both save our economy as well as calm the general public about the so called “financial crisis”. While it makes us wonder what the government usually does when there is no crisis, the more important question is whether they [...]
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People must be numb to all the bailout news by now but it looks like AIG wants another $10 billion sent its way.
Apparently, the $100+ billion we gave to AIG was for other company’s bets that AIG was insuring while the $10 billion is for AIG’s own bets on the same mortgage derivatives. What’s [...]
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A few months ago, I wondered whether an investment property or a dividend yielding stock is better. The result was an unanimous vote for investing in stocks. Since then, the environment drastically changed as we saw the financial crisis start to unfold and our stock portfolios subsequently losing 40% of its value.
If [...]
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Reading the Wall Street Journal’s Sunday column “Yoder & Son” shed light on an incredible easy and effective parenting tip on helping your kids understand personal finance - Let You Children Take Care of It.
Like many, Steve found out about a monthly recurring errand transaction on his son’s checking account statement and started calling the [...]
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First, Illinois stops doing business with Bank of America, then the governor tried to withhold money to help the Chicago Tribune unless the media company fires certain editors that are known to be critical of the government. Now, Illinois’ governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested!
Geez. On top of all that, the governor is arrested [...]
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Or suspends I shall say but either way, can they do that?
Apparently, the state has stopped all business relationships with Bank of America and will not resume until the bank restores the line of credit to Chicago-based Republic Windows & Doors.
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is quite fired up about the fact that the taxpayer money [...]
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I received a check card today through the mail and with it came a list of tips on safe use of the card as well as using the ATM. Some are quite obvious but it’s always a good refresher to make sure we are following good practices. So, let’s take a look at them today [...]
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