Category: Money
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Is the stock market rigged?
60 Minutes has to be one of the best shows on TV. If you don’t have cable you can watch the episodes for free on CBS’s website. The show, like VICE on HBO, teaches you about topics you may have otherwise never been exposed to. This past Sunday the show asked the question: Is the stock…
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Retire Early… Way early
During the wee hours of the night as I rummaged through my Twitter feed, I ran across an article in Forbes about a man who actually did retire at the age of 30. That is not a typo… yes, I said 30! “Most people wrongly focus on the income side of th[e] equation, he says.…
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2015 Proposed Budget for Dummies
If you have some free time, you can read President Obama’s Proposed 2015 Budget, pdf, all 218 pages of it. Luckily, a few days ago I read an article in CNN Money that offered a few tips. The author clearly has experience with this process, I don’t, so what the heck! “The first trick: Skip the rhetoric.…
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The Marriott Factor
I recently wrote a post explaining that I never pay bills because I have automated my finances. The reason: credit cards. In that post, I promised to write about how to select the credit card to use for accumulating rewards. Articles like this one in US News often provide generic criteria for evaluating which credit card…
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Nickels and Dimes
When it comes to money, there are two things that matter: deposits and withdrawals. And only one thing to remember: automate everything! First, let’s talk DEPOSITS. Setting up direct deposit with your employers is a no brainer. But what about those one-offs: those rare times when you need to deposit a check or a money…
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