Mega Millions, Is There a Winning Strategy?

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In a struggling economy everyone is looking for a little hope. Could the Mega Millions jackpot, now at an estimated award of $500 million, be your $1 shot at financial freedom? This global record jackpot is attracting millions to this cheap … [Read more...]

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Women Can Control Their Own Money – And Other Perks of Living in Modern America.

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My wife and I love watching Downton Abbey, the PBS show about an early 20th Century English country estate and the intrigues of the landowning family, their household servants and the tumultuous events of the era. The show is very well done: smart … [Read more...]

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Don’t Save Money. Make More!

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Earlier this year I read a great blog post from Ramit Sethi about how people often focus on the wrong side of the personal finance equation: we’re often told to save money, be more frugal, stop drinking so many lattes, etc. but few people ever try … [Read more...]

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When Will We See the World’s First Trillionaire?

When Will the World See a Trillionaire?

In recent years, even at a time of global recession, the world’s wealthiest people have been getting wealthier and wealthier. In fact, the wealthiest 5 percent of American households received 81.7 percent of the total wealth gain in America between … [Read more...]

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Study: Foreclosure and Housing Crisis May Have Health Repercussions

Housing Crisis May Have Health Repercussions

Mortgage foreclosures and the housing crisis are not only affecting Americans' finances, but also their health, according to a recent study by the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). If you think about it, anytime you have problems with … [Read more...]

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How Did the Top 1 Percent Get So Rich?

How the 99% Can Improve Their Situations Now

There has been a lot of conversation in the news recently about the Occupy Wall Street protests and the idea of the "1 percent" (i.e. the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans at the very top of the income scale) and the "99 percent" (i.e.the rest of … [Read more...]

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How the Debit Card Fee Brouhaha May Affect Your Credit Card

Impact of Dropped Debit Card Fees

By: Jim Sloan, MoneyRates.com The recent hubbub about debit card fees could have a big impact on you and your credit card. In case you missed it, Bank of America proposed a $5-a-month fee on use of its debit cards, which it planned to roll out … [Read more...]

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What’s the Value of a Human Life?

Can You Put a Price Tag on Human Life?

Most of us have heard of the concept of “net worth” – a measure of total wealth, calculated by taking a person’s total assets minus their liabilities. But when we talk about the true “worth” of someone’s life, did you know that some … [Read more...]

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Can the Middle Class Be Saved?

Can the Middle Class Be Saved?

Every now and then, I read a news article that makes me want to run through the streets stopping passersby and begging them to read it. This article by Don Peck in the Atlantic Monthly, “Can the Middle Class Be Saved?” is one of them. This is a … [Read more...]

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What If the Consumer Economy Never Comes Back?

How to Manage Your Personal Finances in the New Economy

In much of the news coverage of the "Great Recession" over the past few years, many people have used the phrase, “When the economy recovers.” It's a given for many of us that somehow, someday, our economy is going to go back to “normal” and … [Read more...]

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How to Do the (Operation) Twist

Let's Do the (Operation) Twist!

In the early 1960s, a new dance craze gripped the nation: The Twist. Youngsters stopped slow dancing and started “twisting the night away.” At the same time, the American economy was slow dancing too and The Twist sounded like just the thing to … [Read more...]

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