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Should I take out a reverse mortgage on my house? What IS a reverse mortgage?

Hey, looks like you’re new here! I blog about money. Saving, investing, insuring, getting, and using it! See my “about me” page for more info! To keep up to date, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get the blog in your email! Thanks for stopping by!My brother […]

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Is $100 a barrel for oil a bad thing? As weird as it sounds, I don’t think it is; and do I think you should invest in Big Oil still?

Photo by: GregHickman We’ve all watched the oil prices rising for years now and continue to pay at the pumps as the price goes up. We think we’ve got it bad here, but we neglect to think that Europe is ALREADY paying DOUBLE what we pay. But how high CAN it go […]

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How did I decide on a 529 plan for my kids?

Photo by: soldiersmediacenter Well, honestly, I didn’t. My mother picked them out for the girls under her name for a Christmas present in 2006. She lives in Montana and her investment rep told her that she would be best suited to buy through him as he’d “pick the best plans for her”, […]

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Weekly Roundup #11 (January 5, 2008)

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I came down with a cold this week, and the site hit its CPU utilization threshold about 4 or 5 times, so the site was in some trouble, but I’ve found a Wordpress guru named Jon Phillips who has been very helpful thus far; and we may even be looking to revamp […]

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Networth update January 1, 2008 (+2.02%)

Looks like I’m starting off the new year relatively clean; up 2.02% from December 2007. The house is still flailing a bit and my bet that Dodge & Cox (DODFX) would payoff for my new 401k allocation - The wifes 401k, on the other hand, stayed in REREX and the ol’ target fund TRRDX […]

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Should I go to college or graduate school to make more money?

A question as old as college I suppose. Colleges need to make money too! What better way to market it than to say you’re DEFINITELY make more money by attending it. Colleges have marketing departments also; they’re businesses just like Walmart and Macys. They’re in the game to make money. […]

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Can I fund my spouses IRA if they don’t work?

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Dear Hank - My wife is a stay at home mom. With a traditional IRA she is eligible for the “spousal IRA.” Can she open a Roth IRA as her spousal IRA, meaning I can invest $8,000 of my income, with half of that in her name? - Peter from Mississippi
Hey Peter […]

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