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5 Reasons Summer Is Looking Hot For New Laptop Sales
Laptop sales are in the dumps. Windows 8 was supposed to give them a jump-start, but Redmond's new operating system turned out to be worse than Vista.In fact, analysts are now blaming Windows 8 for the...
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Working Americans Are Waiting Longer Than Ever To Retire
Retirement at age 65 is no longer the goal for most working Americans.In 2010, for the first time, more Americans said they planned to retire after age 65 than before it, and since then the gap has...
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6 Subtle Signs That Your Financial Planner Is Incompetent
A good financial planner can guide you toward useful products, boost the returns on your investments and help you design a sensible approach to retirement.A bad financial planner, on the other hand,...
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How To Write Off Your Summer Vacation On Your Taxes
If you're lucky enough to get away this season, consider making vacation plans that will enable you to deduct some of your travel expenses.The only way to do this is to include certain activities in...
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It's Official: The Tanning Tax Is Here To Stay
It's official: That trip to the tanning bed is going to keep costing you a little extra.Monday, the IRS definitively ruled it is going to keep a 10 percent sales tax on tanning salons in tact. The tax,...
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Signing Up For Your Bank's Overdraft Protection Plan Could Do More Harm Than...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a white paper today on the impact of overdraft and non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees on the average bank account holder.The report is the result of an...
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8 Solid Reasons To Stay At A Job You Hate
There may seem only two good reasons for hanging on in a job that has become as appealing as shoveling excrement in torrential rain: i) you need the money and ii) there are no other jobs on...
View ArticleSELLERS: 5 Things Not to Do at Your Open House
If you watch real estate reality TV, you might have noticed that some brokers and agents have elevated the art of the Open House to an entirely new level. The fresh-baked cookies of yester-year seem to...
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Here's What Happened When 8,000 Pairs Of Equally Qualified Whites And...
When the Department of Housing and Urban Development first began to systemically study housing discrimination in the United States in the 1970s, the most blatant forms of it were still common.Blacks...
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A Few Thoughts from Aunt Doris: Well … It Didn’t Seem Funny at the Time!
This is another post in an occasional series from my dear nonagenarian Aunt Doris.Aunt Doris (circa the good ol' days)Every once in awhile, almost everyone says or does something so goofy or dumb that...
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Is The Key To Getting Rich Work, Risk, Or Luck?
The role of luck in getting wealthy is no longer just an academic issue: it's also a political one.If we assume that wealth comes from working hard, taking great personal risk and coming up with great...
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Raise Your Hand If You Just Locked In The Mortgage Deal Of Your Life
On timing in investments and personal finance, as it relates to my home mortgageDid you see the front page of the Wall Street Journal today? Yeah, that graph that showed 10-year bond yields up 0.5% in...
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Here's The Real Cost Of Dying In Debt
If you’re counting on an inheritance, you might think again.Recent data show that more older adults today are in debt than before.A study earlier this year from the Employee Benefit Research Institute...
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3 Major Life Decisions You Should Take More Seriously
There are many seemingly non-financial decisions that can impact your entire life in areas such as earning potential, debt and so on.In this article, we'll look at three such decisions that people...
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Yes, Credit Cards Are Making You A Bad Person
The cashless society -- a world where physical money is practically obsolete -- has, in just a few years, gone from a utopian dream to something like an inevitability.In Sweden, a national effort is...
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10 Things To Ask Before Renting A Luxury Apartment
So you’ve seen the heated indoor lap pool in the state-of-the-art fitness center, toured the screening room, entertainment lounge, game room, catering kitchen and pet spa. But take a moment before you...
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9 Important Money Tips Every Dad Should Teach His Kids
Readers: In honor of Father’s Day, I thought I would repost this message to my kids that originally debuted here exactly two years ago today. It has since become one of my most popular articles...
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The 6 Most Affordable Luxury Cars On The Road Right Now
When shopping for a car, a number of factors influence which vehicles buyers ultimately choose, such as performance, interior features, exterior car design and ultimately how much an auto loan will...
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7 Tips For A Happier Retirement
Studies from AARP, the National Opinion Research Center and elsewhere offer us a new understanding of who is happy, and perhaps more importantly, why some people are happier than others. The bad news:...
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Trader Joe's Vs. Whole Foods: Where's The Best Place To Buy Lunch?
One of the first things to go on the pie chart of curbing discretionary spending is restaurant expenses.For good reason: It’s expensive, it’s easy to over-order and you absolutely need to put away...
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