Archived entries posted in "Investing"

The Greatest Robbery In American History Compared To The Subprime Mortgage Crisis

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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #27 (April 27, 2008)

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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An Inspirational Quote From A Movie I Watched And How It Relates To The Personal Finance Realm

I’ve actually had this quote listed in my “to write” column for quite sometime but hadn’t yet thought how to structure the post but I think it is VERY relevant to the theme on this site…
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“Demystifying” The Subprime Mortgage Crisis And Other Questions; An Interview With Dan Crittenden

Dan Crittenden is an experienced and top producing Mortgage Banker/ Mortgage Broker specializing in real estate financing and home mortgage loans throughout the State of Washington and the United States.
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Be Careful When Your Financial Advisors Tries To Sell You An Annuity.

So I had a “financial advisor” from Hartford mutual back in my “younger days” (Dec2007) that sold me a Life Insurance policy and then proceeded to tell me the next thing I needed on my ordered list of investments was a deferred annuity. She said it was very stable and something I really should […]

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What Type Of DISC Profile Does The Standard Investor Have?

In regards to one of my most recent posts at the Q2 Magic Quadrant post, I came across an interesting comment from Pinyo at Moolanomy.com. He asked a question in regards to formula of coming up with MQ itself. I had mentioned in the response that it all plays a role in how […]

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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #25 (April 13, 2008)

The Pacific Northwest has some pretty strange weather patterns. It was 45 degrees yesterday and today it’s almost hitting 90 in the area. It’s a warm one so it is nice to see the weather changing for the better.
MyInvestingBlog fired off some goodies this week dishing out the successful Hanks Holiday Handouts #2, […]

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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #24 (April 5, 2008)

There is still 3 days 12 hours 00 mins and 01 seconds left to get entered for some great free stuff at Hanks Holiday Handout #2 giving away $200+ of prizes!
We had some good traffic this week courtesy of the 2nd running of Magic Quadrant of Personal Finance, had a guest post from Ben at […]

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Net Worth Update April 1, 2008–$116,557.16 (+10.54%)

A few things helped out this months net worth statement:
1. My almost 8k tax refund certainly didn’t hurt anything. I am not going to be getting as much next year as I adjusted my W-4s to better fit my pay scale finally. I’m sick of giving the government a free loan each […]

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When The Federal Prime Rate Drops, Some People Are Happy, But The Dollar Weakens; What Happens Then?

There is still 7 days 21 hours 45 mins and 20 seconds left to get entered for some great free stuff at Hanks Holiday Handout #2 giving away $200+ of prizes!
The Feds have lowered the rate 6 times since September lowering it 2.25% (with another pending on 3/17/2008 at 6am when I’m writing this). The […]

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