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Good Debt vs. Bad Debt
Debt is one of the reasons the U.S. economy is currently in a downturn (and possibly headed towards a recession), but debt is also a major reason why there are more millionaires and billionaires today than ever before. Debt can help someone’s f...
Financial Facts About Barack Obama - Part 3: The Social Security Issue
This post concludes my three-part Financial Facts About Barack Obama series. On Wednesday, I looked at the effect of Obama’s proposal to let the Bush tax cuts expire, and yesterday I focused on the effect of his proposal to raise the long-ter...
Financial Facts About Barack Obama - Part 2: The Capital Gains Tax Hike
Yesterday, I kicked off my Financial Facts About Barack Obama series by writing about the effect of Obama’s proposal to let the Bush tax cuts expire. As I said yesterday, this guy has no idea how disastrous such a proposal would be for the ec...
Financial Facts About Barack Obama - Part 1: Letting The Bush Tax Cuts Expire
I have avoided politics on this blog since its inception, but I writing about the U.S. presidential race this week because it’s turning out to be one of the most important campaigns of this generation. However, I want to stay within the them...
YouTube Friday - Ron Paul On Money And Value Of The U.S. Dollar
Few politicians exist who understand money and the declining value of the U.S. dollar. Whether or not you like Ron Paul (which is irrelevant here), he gives a nice, straightforward explanation about monetary policy and the Federal Reserve’...
Starting a Business is Not Risky
I car pool sometimes with one of my friends from work because we live fairly close to each other. The other day, when I was driving him home, we somehow struck up a conversation about business ideas and what it takes to start a business. During t...
A $5,000 Tax Refund
Like many taxpayers, my wife and I received our tax refund check from the Internal Revenue Service this past week. The amount of the check was $5,000 even. Now, there are a lot of people who love receiving tax refunds, especially if it’s a ...
YouTube Friday - 7 Money-Making Ideas From Robert Shemin
I’ve enjoyed posting videos from YouTube because there is a lot of interesting content on there. In particular, there is a lot of good content related to money and investing. I think some of the content is so good, in fact, that I think I&#...
How To Build Credit
Some of us are lucky and have good credit or have worked hard to establish great credit. Others, however, have credit problems or (if you’re younger) don’t have any credit at all. In either scenario (whether you have bad credit...
