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First Lessons Learned as a Volunteer Tax Preparer

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1077 days ago, popular 1076 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: taxes
Lessons about life and money are learned in the office of a volunteer tax preparer. read more »
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Your Post-Christmas to-do List

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1133 days ago, popular 1132 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: taxes
A list of things to do in the post-Christmas lull to improve your financial life. read more »
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Year-End Financial and Tax Planning Checklist

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1134 days ago, popular 1133 days ago (http://gotoretirement.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: retirement planning tax planning
A concise summary of year-end tax, financial, and retirement planning steps. read more »
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Building a Better Mood About Your Money

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1134 days ago, popular 1134 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: gratitude optimism psychology
Brief feelings of gratitude can improve your mood, including your money mood. It's science. read more »
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The Tough Money Love “Can I Afford it?” Quiz

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1135 days ago, popular 1134 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: credit spending
The real questions to ask yourself before you make that discretionary purchase. read more »
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Alternatives to Layoffs in a Recession - Why aren't they Used?

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1135 days ago, popular 1134 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: recession unemployment
Asking the question of why employers do not find other ways to reduce labor costs short of mass firings. read more »
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Making Year End Adjustments to Your Investment Portfolio

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1135 days ago, popular 1135 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: asset allocation rebalancing
Moves to make at year end to improve your investment selections. read more »
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Sad Worlds Collide: The Unretired vs. the Unemployed

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1160 days ago, popular 1159 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy retirement unemployment
Because of the severe market downturn, thousands of retirees are trying to "unretire" and are now competing with unemployed younger workers for too[...] read more »
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Selecting a Lake House as a Vacation Home

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1161 days ago, popular 1160 days ago (http://gotoretirement.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: second homes vacation homes
Buying a vacation home can bring tangible and intangible benefits. read more »
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Spenders Jumping on the "Shopping is Patriotic" Bandwagon

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1167 days ago, popular 1166 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: comsumerism spending
Comments from shoppers on Black Friday show that at least some are spending to support our economy. read more »
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More Pigs Approach the Bailout Trough

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1173 days ago, popular 1172 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: bailout homebuilders
This time its the home builders coming the Congress with their hands out for tax credits and interest rate buy downs. read more »
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Our Economy Needs More Engineers and Fewer MBAs

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1210 days ago, popular 1209 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy engineers wall street
Wall Street is dominated by investment bankers and MBAs who cannot produce anything except packaged risk. Our economy needs to innovate and produce [...] read more »
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