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Visualize Your Savings Goals

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to achieving major savings goals is maintaining your focus. The bigger the goal, the longer it typically [...] read more »
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Deducting Miles for Charitable Volunteering

It’s less than five miles away one-way but I still wanted to research how to claim the driving mileage on my taxes to reduce my tax burden as much as[...] read more »
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No Cash, No Problem: Bartering Booms Online

The country’s personal savings rate rose to 5% of disposable income in January, the most in about 14 years. But people still need stuff even if they[...] read more »
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Loss Mitigation - A Simple Way to Stop Foreclosure

One useful strategy to stop foreclosure is loss mitigation. This process is beneficial not only to borrowers but to lenders as well. With the right k[...] read more »
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Five Ways To Optimize Automated Trading Systems

The concept that one trader's investment calls could be instantaneously transmitted to thousands of other investment accounts is a pretty revolution[...] read more »
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An introduction to vertical diversification

Vertical diversification spreads your investment portfolio across different types of assets, to reduce volatility and risk. read more »
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32 Powerful Ways To Cut Costs In Business

There are 32 ways to cut cost if you are a business owner or an entrepreneur that you might have never thought of. Make laying off employees your las[...] read more »
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When the Bush Tax Cuts Expire - For the Rest of Us

What do you think happens when the Bush tax cuts expire? Are you sure? You might want to take another look at it could affect your average family, ev[...] read more »
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The Advantages of Passive Investing via Index Funds

Common sense math tells us why index funds have a historical record of beating the majority of actively-managed funds. (Hint: It comes down to costs.[...] read more »
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Which is best? Google vs. Yahoo vs. AOL Finance

Financial portals have been around a long time, and get a ton of traffic. Despite that, it seems like they’re the forgotten children of their parent [...] read more »
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A Great Example of Why You Need to Diversify

Small little example, huge lesson. Diversify or risk losing EVERYTHING. read more »
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How much is $787 billion?

How much money is $787 billion? It's hard to understand, when we really have nothing to compare it to. I break it down into more meaningful comparis[...] read more »
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Will the Philippines Stock Exchange Add an Islamic Stock Index?

Asian countries are slowly adding Muslim investment offerings. Not wanting to be left behind by countries like Indonesia and Singapore, the Philippin[...] read more »
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Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise

With the U.S. dealing with an economic slide that has cost millions of jobs, the number of vehicle repossessions is expected to rise 5 percent this y[...] read more »
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Millions facing negative equity

Nearly four million UK homeowners are in, or close to, negative equity as the property market stutters, according to research group GfK NOP. read more »
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