We’re looking up again this month - looks like the mutual funds are coming back a little bit this month. Both the wife and I had good 401k returns this month. The house dropped a bit, but that’s to be expected, but overall we’re looking up again.
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Some good stuff this week including “How To Use Any Credit Card At Costco“, “How To Get Quality Financial Advice“, and “What Pizza Do Investors Eat?” Readership was a little down this week, not so much buzz here, but I’m working on some good stuff on the backend that I think is pretty interesting. […]

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So I’ve been told people with Social Security numbers ending in 00-20 have already received their stimulus package. Those ending in 21-75 will be getting them May 9, and 76-99 will receive them on May 16. I fall in the group that should see them today! From the sounds of these folks […]

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I was driving to work today and noticed a wonderful picture on the way there; so good that I had to stop in the middle of the road to take the photo and get a good laugh…
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Saw an interesting video today that compared the early 20th century American stock market to todays subprime crisis. There really are some stunning similarities, but the piece that caught my eye was the last 20 seconds when he describes the investor pull out right before the 1929 stock market crash as “The Greatest Robbery […]

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The week had some good posts that saw some good traffic including demystifying the subprime crisis, dumping the National Income tax for a National Sale tax, and the “selling” of annuities trap. The sites that really got me inspired this week are:
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I haven’t really been paying attention to the student loan dilemma since the fed dropped the interest rates again, but not being in the educational sector doesn’t mean it’s not going to have impact on our economy nonetheless…
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So in buying my new house a year and 1/2 ago, I wasn’t aware of property taxes. And after paying them in my closing costs for the first part of the year last year, I neglected the 2nd half of the payment ending last year, and only realized it when I got the late […]

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So I was listening to Jesse Ventura talk this morning on the Adam Carolla show, he mentioned that he’s all in favor of abolishing the current tax implementation and introducing a standard “National Sales Tax”. At first I thought it sounded like a pretty bad idea, but then I got to thinking, and googling; which […]

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