A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE?

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Student Loans Menace, But Grads Can Learn to Deal It’s a topic described by some analysts as yet another bubble, ready to burst and further complicate the already complicated-enough personal finance picture. We’re talking about student … [Read more...]

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Quizzle Weekly Money Tips: Credit Cards

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Alarming headlines about our soaring national indebtedness frequently splash across the front pages of newspapers, our TV’s and computer screens, but members of congress aren’t the only ones who’ve racked up a hefty balance. Mr. and Mrs. … [Read more...]

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Five Things to Know If You Miss a Credit Card Payment

How to Improve Your Credit Score - the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Building credit has a few similarities to sports (after all, it’s called your credit ‘score’ for a reason). Like all sports, when checking your score, you’ll notice it deals in points. Also as in sports, sometimes you’re up and sometimes … [Read more...]

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Personal Finance Blog of the Week

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Born in 1981, I have always considered myself a generational mulatto, born of two temporal parents – one digital, one analog. I remember taking tests or receiving homework assignments made by the mimeograph, but I also remember staying up past my … [Read more...]

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FTC Tells Sketchers to Shape-up to the Tune of $40 million

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American consumers have been hungry for miracle products even before Geritol wooed millions of senior citizens as the sponsor of the rigged game show Twenty One. Now, the new tonic for easy-fix questing shoppers are tone-up shoes; sneakers purported … [Read more...]

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Does Canceling My Credit Cards Boost My Credit Score?

Open Credit Cards to Improve Credit Score?

The financial world we live in is a scary one where many people are no longer comfortable holding onto credit cards with high limits that might tempt them into making purchases they can’t afford – especially if they’ve already got a mediocre … [Read more...]

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Memorial Day Weekend Offers Americans a Gas Holiday

Save Money at the Pump with these Gas Cards

After climbing to record highs in recent months, the price at the pump has finally leveled out and is showing relief signs as the Memorial Day weekend approaches. A welcome change for would be holiday travelers, decreasing prices at the pump and … [Read more...]

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How to Help a Friend with Financial Problems

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With the economy still going through a long, slow recovery, millions of Americans are feeling financial pressure. Whether you’ve lost your job, had your hours cut, or are feeling underemployed, under-challenged or undercompensated at your job, … [Read more...]

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JP Morgan Sends Investors to the Mattresses

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There was no horse head in my bed this morning, or Michael Corleone breathing down my neck, but JP Morgan Chases’ latest derivatives gamble is sending investors across the globe to re-check their mattresses for good places to stash their cash. … [Read more...]

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Mixed Emotions – Finance, Obama, Gay Marriage and Quicksand

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Above all things I am a pragmatist. As a political operative, like a spy, a good businessperson, a sound financial adviser or an undercover cop, the ability to divorce yourself from the emotional ties that often encumber good judgment is one of your … [Read more...]

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Home Prices Stabilizing, Rising

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For the legions of homeowners out there, watching like hawks as the real estate market appeared to have no bottom, today's real estate news offers a small modicum of relief as reports indicate the bottom is here and prices are on the way up. … [Read more...]

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