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The Golden Parachute
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Practical financial tips to save you money on loans, credit cards, travel, taxes and more.
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Mortgage Rates Climb Applications Fall
If you were thinking about refinancing your mortgage and been dragging your feet (or maybe your bank has been), refinancing may be less attractive than it was a week or two ago. The 30 year fixed rate was about 4.81% last week. This week it has jum...
Amazon Selling Flip Camcorder for $50!
If you have a gadget-loving father, new grad or someone else in your family Amazon has a really good deal right now on the Flip Camcorder. For those of you not familiar with the Flip series of gadgets they are stripped down, but very functional camc...
Using Web 2.0 to Find a Job
Quite a while back Mashable posted a list of their top 10 social websites to find a job. I have posted the list below. I admit while I'm familiar with the major sites on the list, many of them are new to me. If you are in the market, take a look. ...
Consolidate, Simply, Improve Your Finances
I have been helping a family member wrap her arms around her financial situation recently and thought I'd share my observations. Unlike the typical situation these days she has judicially salted away money every month for a very long time and theref...
Just How Bad is the Job Market for the Class of '09
Yeah, everyone knows job losses have been downright ugly for some time now. But, what about all those new college grads being churned out this year. Sure some positions may have a fairly positive outlook, but far less have a red-hot demand as in ye...
Asset Allocation Made Easy
As a DIY investor without a broker, I have been looking around (for a while now) trying to find a tool that will help me allocate my investments in different asset classes and help me rebalance them occasionally. As I will probably elaborate on in a...
