A surprising number of Americans have little in the way of investments and a sad number have none at all. One has to wonder how the non-investing fraction of our fellow…
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Personal Finance
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It always comes as a surprise how fast either a bull or bear market mentality can take hold in the media. A year, two years and, all of a sudden,…
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Everybody makes mistakes. Life is one trip through the buffet line; there’s no rehearsal, no do overs, no second plates. You start at one end and go to the other…
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It’s hard enough to keep a relationship healthy in our busy modern world where constant demands on our time can sap the fun out of almost anything. It is in…
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Even the smartest people among us sometimes fall for myths and fables. Sometimes those myths come in the form of cute sayings that are handed down from generation to generation,…
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One topic in personal finance that is endlessly fascinating is why, in a country that has produced some of the greatest investing returns in the history of our nation, are…
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One of the first basic rules anyone learns running a business is that a dollar saved is better than a dollar in new sales. Small business owners either learn that…
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Everyone defines success differently, so hanging a price tag on financial success is difficult. If your definition of financial success involves private jets, then you’ll have a much higher mountain…
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This is a headline that most people would agree is long overdue. One of the frustrating aspects to the Great Recession of 2007/2008 is that while corporate profits and executive…
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Normally you don’t have to tell people they’re living on the edge of financial disaster; most already know and are trying desperately not to think about it. The reason those…