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Articles -
How To Stay The Retirement
Course
We all work for different reasons, a lot of us
work for our vacation, some work to pay off loans, most work for
retirement. There are lots of ways that you can make these goals
either sink or swim. But there are a few common mistakes that can
easily knock you off the course of where you’d like to be... [more]
Making Money Mistakes
We all do stupid
things, we all have instances of life where
in hindsight we think, “What was I
thinking?!” Its natural, its normal, its
part of the beautiful human experience;
hopefully these mistakes didn’t lead to MC
Hammer pants and shiny red convertible
mid-life crisis, but in all seriousness
there are financial mistakes that are easily
made with good intentions that can be
detrimental to your money’s future. ... [more]
A Recession Roller Coaster - We're In For
Another Ride
Recession, economy, financial planning, these
are all ideas we are tired of hearing about.
Well, my friend, get over it, the National
Bureau of Economic Research is starting to
talk about another round of financial mishaps
that are set to come our way. This is called
a ‘double dip’ recession. In specific terms
it means a time when the GDP or Gross Domestic
Product slides back to negative after a
short-lived time of positive growth ...[more]
Cons And Their
Keepers
Hope. That is quite
possibly one of the strongest words in the
English language.
We hope for many
things, we hope for wealth, to achieve our
dreams, and to succeed. We may hope for
money or possessions, or in the time of need
we may hope for another- whether it be for
them to have the muscle to overcome physical
obstacles, the ability to overcome... [more]
How To Avoid The IRS Audit
‘Tis the season, Tax
season that is, and unlike Christmas it
isn’t everyone’s favorite time of year.
Right now is the time of year of stress and
headaches, sorting through all of the
finances of the past year in search of
accuracy as to not be audited and also in
search of anything that can be termed a
deduction to get a little bit ...[more]
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Business-
Hollywood Attempts To Reach The Latino Market
Warner Brothers, Disney, 20th Century Fox and Universal are all reaching for the same goal: to appeal to the Latino market. But how exactly are they doing that? Production companies feel that the ...
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Education
- Bush
Makes Big Changes To College Savings Plans
Saving money for our children's higher
education is a little like walking through a
mine field, which plan best suites our needs.
President Bush has just signed the Pension
Protection Act, the act of...... [more...]
Family
Matters - Making Sense Of The
Census
I often get called upon to write
articles for different reasons, some
topics I have developed a stand on, some
require a little research, so when I was
given the topic of the census I was
pretty ambivalent. I know what the
census is; it is a tool that the
government uses to get a feel ...[more]
Health - Being Heart Smart Is A Start...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that heart disease in the United States has decreased by 50% in the last 20 years...
[more]
Money Matters
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Banks Go Hard Money In The
Name Of Good Business
Let’s sit back and take
a minute to think about really bad ideas.
Putting a fork in a toaster, now’s that’s a
bad idea. Going on vacation with the
in-laws is another bad idea. Paying 79.9 %
interest on a credit card, yep, that’s a
really bad idea. ... [more]
Politics
- Social
Security?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt initially
signed Social Security into law on August
14th, 1935. He was the first President to
advocate the protection of the elderly,
largely in part due to the effects of ... [more]
Real
Estate -
“Sub Prime”
Americans BAILOUT the so-called “Prime”
clients and shareholders.
Buying a home is for most people the
largest single commitment we will ever make,
so why after we have “signed on the dotted
line” are we left to sink or swim on our own?
...[more]
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