It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ...
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Money is the barometer of a society's ...
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What is an ARM Loan?
Readers: This is article 4 of 25 from my no-nonsense "Mortgage Basics" quick-reference series.
An adjustable rate mortgage, otherwise known as an ARM mortgage, is a home loan that uses the property being purchased as collateral. Unlike a ...
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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Guess How Much These Calendars Cost
With the new year upon us, I found myself in desperate need of a new desk calendar. At the time, I wasn't looking forward to venturing onto the busy streets and adding to the post-Christmas hustle and bustle, but it turns out that the Honeybee needed ...
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Black Coffee: The Blurred Line Between Fiction and Nonfiction
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Here we go ...
Credits and ...
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How to Ride the Star Wars Wave with Lock-In Stocks and Binary Options
What do lock-in stocks (like Disney) and binary-options trading have in common? Well, first of all, let's define our terms. Lock-in stocks, for our purposes, are stocks for companies that can be thought of as too big to fail. Now, of course all ...
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5 Financial Lessons From the Past That Everyone Should Learn
Those who don't pay much attention to the past are doomed to repeat it. There are so many sayings in this vein, but they all revolve around the fact that you must learn from your past errors. So let's look at some key financial lessons we should all ...
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Black Coffee: It’s Time to Batten Down the Hatches
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I just got back from a long business ...
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Poll: The 5 Biggest Money Regrets of 2015 — and How to Conquer Them
I'm confident that this time last year, scrawled on your list of New Year resolutions, was a sentence relevant to at least one of these four phrases:
'save money'
'stop spending'
'get out of debt'
'stick to a budget'
According to a ...
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Negative Interest Rates and the Demonization of Cash
A lot of financially savvy people out there say that the world's central banks have foisted zero- and negative-interest rates (otherwise known as ZIRP and NIRP) to force people out of their savings. The truth is, there is a more pressing reason for ...
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Black Coffee: The Happy New Year Edition
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Happy New Year, everyone!
Away we go ...
Credits and Debits
Debit: Despite being $72 billion in debt and guilty of defaulting on a portion of its bond payments last summer -- with ...
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Infographic: Where Your Tax Money Will Be Spent In 2016
The holiday season is now over, which means the advent of tax season is officially here. I know, but what can you do?
The average American taxpayer can expect to be taxed at about 31.5% of their wages, which comes out to a massive ...
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Culinary Odds & Ends: How Eating Leftovers Saves Me $1700 Annually
Last year my family spent a small fortune on groceries -- $12,764 to be exact. If you were to press me on the matter, my teenage son, Matthew, probably ate $9000 worth of them.
Anyone who thinks I'm kidding hasn't seen our kitchen after a visit ...
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Black Coffee: The Don’t Blink or You’ll Miss It Edition
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I hope everyone had a great Christmas ...
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A Peek at My Kids’ Christmas Lists
Readers: Just for fun, I thought I would repost this article from Christmas Eve 2009
Well, according to my friend the Silicon Valley Blogger, Zhu Zhu Pets are the hot Christmas gift item for 2009. Don't tell my kids that though because those ...
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How to Experience New York City on a Budget
New York is an amazing city that attracts millions of curious tourists all year long, including New Year's Eve when thousands of revelers crowd Times Square to watch the ball drop at the stroke of midnight.
Of course, New York City is also well ...
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Black Coffee: Excuse Me While I Blow Some Hot Air
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I've got a lot of Christmas shopping ...
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Why Most People Should Avoid Trading Binary Options
In many ways there has never been a better time to invest. After a decade prior that delivered the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, many will argue that we're starting to see real signs of long term recovery across the markets, ...
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100 Words On: The True Meaning of Christmas
In today's day and time,
It's easy to lose sight,
Of the true meaning of Christmas
And one special night.
When we go shopping,
We say 'How much will it cost?'
Then the true meaning of Christmas,
Somehow becomes lost.
Amidst the tinsel, ...
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7 Ways to Immunize Yourself from the Layoff Bug
Very few of us are immune from the specter of receiving a pink slip. In fact, I know of one married couple who both got laid off on the same day.
I've seen lots of advice on the web centered around the theme "You're laid off, now what?" But that ...
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Black Coffee: The 7th Anniversary Edition
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It's hard to believe, but this week my ...
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