Isn't it interesting how the same basic thing can have so many price points? This weekend my wife & I went to a local bike shop and got her a Specialized brand bike that cost roughly $350....
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The economy is slumping. Many people think we're already in a recession. So I would suggest to you that replacing today's lunch or dinner with a free ice cream cone from Ben & Jerry's...
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© PinkMoose My wife just tipped me off to this NPR story that discusses the differences in saving habits between today and 25 years ago: In 1982, Americans saved more than 11 percent of their...
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© mdid You say you're ready to be stimulated? Or to do some stimulating (of the economy, that is)? Well, good news. They're going to start sending them out Monday: The rebates range from $300...
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Today we reach the 30th in our long-running series on Warren Buffett's words of wisdom, as gleaned from the annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. This installment covers the year...
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© A. Crider U.S. News & World Report has just packaged many of its best articles about work and finance, as well as its Alpha Consumer and The Inside Job blogs, into a nice "Guide to Being a...
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© rick On the last morning of our Riviera Maya vacation in Mexico, we had to be ready in front of the hotel at 6:45 AM to take a bus up to the Cancun airport an hour away and there......
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A friend got married recently and invited a group of us to head down to Mexico and share in the wedding festivities, as well as a few days of drinking and sunning. This was my first experience ever...
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© fdecomite It's always seemed a little unfair that you can buy a ticket for a flight and be bumped off when it's oversold, even if you really, really need to be on that plane. Starting in...
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© Gaetan Lee Greg Karp: When I quit Verizon, the customer-retention person offered me a 550-minute plan for $10 less a month, or $60 instead of $70 (for two lines). Armed with this information, [my...
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Farnoosh Torabi, whose current claim to fame is getting that crazy Jim Cramer to sit down every day for a video interview on stocks to watch at TheStreet.com, is the author of a new book You're So...
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© bcmom Saw this article today on this recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which concluded that there is a disparity between the credit offered to people in mostly white...
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Every 6 months or so there are a handful of media articles about the scourge of credit card companies marketing their cards to defenseless college students who are willing to give up their futures...
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Gene Marcial, who writes the influential BusinessWeek column "Inside Wall Street" has taken his 25+ years of investing knowledge and distilled it into a new book called "7 Commandments...
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Over at The Wealth Report, Robert Frank has a very interesting post and discussion in the comments about whether the adage "do what you love and the money will follow" is really true. He...
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Shortly after Prosper.com debuted in mid-2006, I did two popular posts on the potential of the service - Why Prosper.com Will Fail and Why Prosper.com Will Succeed. The site has definitely succeeded...
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Almost everyone has a notion of their dream home, their personal showplace. Unfortunately, reality dictates that most of us will buy and sell a number of homes before getting there. And both the...
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by Justin McHenry on April 01, 2008
Happy April! WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney announced today their intention to acquire the United States Judicial Branch for $35 million, or $2 per share,...
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