I was reading this article about mutual funds with front-end loads and how one financial planner told his client he needed to switch to one so the planner could get a commission, and I had to laugh...
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I find this stinky. I have several bills that get paid automatically via my credit card, which is a nice convenience. However, I just read today that when I get a new credit...
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Interesting to me, maybe to you, too... 1. I own a mutual fund that makes all its buying and selling decisions based solely on a set formula, and it beats the pants off others that let emotion creep...
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My wife and I have different ideas. And, like a lot of couples, one of the places where our ideas differ is money. This is not a hit piece on my wife, or a confession of my money sins. We're......
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Hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend and spent at least a few moments thinking about what Memorial Day means other than a day off and the unofficial start to summer. Below, 10 place you can go...
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This press release about Wachovia choosing a credit card processor is bo-ring, but it's actually pretty important in my view. Wachovia offers credit cards, but they are one of many banks that...
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I know your head's already off to Memorial Day weekend, but here's some reading if you can't concentrate but still have to sit there as if you're working... 1. You're getting a...
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Over at Yahoo! Finance, Laura Rowley has a column with letters in response to her earlier column on whether or not an Ivy League education is really better for you than getting your degree from a less...
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personal finance go-round... 1. They say the number one issue that breaks marriages up is money. Some of these questions to Michelle Singletary will show you why. 2. There's a slightly morbid...
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You may have heard how 25 kazillion U.S. vets had their information stolen when a VA employee took their info home, only to have his house burglarized and the info taken as part of the burglar's...
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Of interest to the financial-minded, starting with thoughts on gas (as in, fuel): 1. Great article from Jennifer Openshaw about putting gas prices in perspective -- a snippet: "A gallon of milk...
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The Christian Science Monitor had an article yesterday about the pros and cons of putting extra money toward paying off your mortgage versus investing it. The financial experts they talked to...
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Filed in archive by Justin McHenry on May 23, 2006
Personal finance highlights from around the Web: 1. Although I'm technically not self-employed these days, I'm pretty much my own boss and have done self-employment in the past. I highly...
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I just started reading Daniel Gilbert's book Stumbling on Happiness, which isn't so much about how to be happy as it is about how difficult it is to predict what wil make you happy. It's...
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There seems to be a lot of conflicting opinion on how much money you'll need in retirement in comparison to what you may need today. Is it 80%, or 50%, or even 100% because you're going to do...
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Personal finance tips, tricks and stories from around the Web... 1. This week's Carnival of Personal Finance includes an interesting essay from Mark on whether investing in companies that "do...
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As you may have noticed, I ripped off the title of this post from the great book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. That book used the term Zen loosely in a theme of quality...
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