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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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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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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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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So a late evening Friday post is unusual, but so is filing taxes with just 4 days to go I figured I’d pass this info along as soon as I found it! H&R Block is giving away their TaxCut Online Basic +E-File for FREE for those last minute tax doers…
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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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Strange how that works out, Hangout #22 falls on the 22nd. Must be a sign! Go buy a lottery ticket, quick! Another good week at MIB, readership via RSS increased 13% I believe due to a few new advertising structures I’m bouncing around including Entrecard and StumbleUpon Ads. I’ll be […]

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This is always a hot topic, especially around this time of year. To accountant or not to accountant, that is the usual question. For some it isn’t a question, accountants cost money they don’t have, but for a LOT of people, they can get their taxes done for a lot less than they […]

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