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5 Ways to Survive a Money Emergency

By Tex Freitag

Nearly everyone will experience a serious money emergency at some point during their lifetime. Something financially catastrophic happens, like your car breaks down or you have to pay a huge medical bill. Afterward, you may be left with little or ...

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February 24, 2017

An Avid Rag Reader Confesses: Magazines Make Me Want to Spend More!

By Paula Pant

I have a confession. Normally I spend a lot of time emphasizing the importance of cultivating habits that reduce your desire to spend. But I have one habit that makes me want to spend more money. It's a practice -- something I do almost daily -- ...

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February 22, 2017

Saving Money Is Easy When You Know This Simple Trick

By George Diaz

If you search Google for "how to save money," you'll get 396 million results. See for yourself; I'll wait. With that many results, how is it possible that people still have trouble saving? I'm sure that one of your New Year's resolutions was to ...

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February 21, 2017

Black Coffee: The Presidents’ Day Weekend Edition

By Len Penzo

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Let's dive right in this week ... In ...

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February 18, 2017

5 Tips the Pros Use to Identify Favorable Investment Opportunities

By Tex Freitag

Anyone interested in their own personal finances should not look at investing as gambling; instead, investments require careful and strategic thought. Yes, there's an element of risk-taking involved, but identifying favorable opportunities requires ...

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February 17, 2017

100 Words On: The Trouble With Whole Life Insurance (vs. Term)

By Len Penzo

The key difference between term and whole life insurance is simple. Term life pays the face amount of the policy in the event of your death, while whole life combines a term policy with an added investment component. Yes, whole life may sound like a ...

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February 16, 2017

A Few Thoughts from Aunt Doris: The Neighborhood Bully

By Aunt Doris

This is another repost from an occasional series by my dear Aunt Doris, who passed away in 2015 at the age of 94. When I was in my early teens, Mum and I moved from Kensington to Notting Hill in London. (Yes, the same Notting Hill as the Julia ...

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February 15, 2017

Black Coffee: And for My Next Trick …

By Len Penzo

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Let's get right to it ... There is no ...

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February 11, 2017

The 10 Most Overlooked Tax Deductions (and How to Claim Them)

By Len Penzo

It may be hard to believe, but Tax Day is just around the corner -- again! -- which is why millions of people just like you are carefully sifting through their paperwork from the last year so they can figure out what they can deduct to lower their ...

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February 8, 2017

Black Coffee: The Super Bowl Edition

By Len Penzo

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Let's kick this baby off, shall ...

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February 4, 2017

A Lifestyle Review of Historic Princeton, New Jersey

By Enero Febrero

Princeton University recently earned the top ranking among national universities according to U.S. News & World Report -- but there's much more to Princeton, New Jersey, than its academics. Princeton, the product of a merger between a borough ...

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January 31, 2017

Black Coffee: Red Tape, Green Confetti and Blue Taxpayers

By Len Penzo

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Okay, let's get right to it this week ...

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January 28, 2017

Fake News: Can You Spot the Error In This Article?

By Antonio Fortunato

It was recently confirmed as fact, via the hacking of emails from a national Presidential candidate's campaign manager and the hacking of emails from the leadership of a national political party committees emails, that news has been fabricated quite ...

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January 25, 2017

Black Coffee: A Ponzi for Your Thoughts

By Len Penzo

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Let's dive right in this week ...

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January 21, 2017

100 Words On: Why Excessive Debt Leads to Indentured Servitude

By Len Penzo

Taking on excessive debt -- and continuously spending more than you earn -- greatly reduces the wealth you can accumulate down the road. As a result, your options in the future become greatly diminished because you are essentially spending tomorrow's ...

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January 19, 2017

Black Coffee: The Lap of Luxury Edition

By Len Penzo

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Off we go ... Credits and ...

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January 14, 2017

My State of the Household Report, Net Worth, and 2016 Expenses

By Len Penzo

I've said it before and I'll say it again: When it comes to money management, one of the most important pieces of information anyone can have is a detailed summary of where your household income was spent during the previous year. I've been ...

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January 13, 2017

Black Coffee: A Few Tales of Taxes, Fraud and Corruption

By Len Penzo

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. And away we go ... "We contend that ...

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January 7, 2017

How People Spent Their Money During the Past 75 Years

By Raul

Consumer spending makes up a large percentage of the United States economy. We all have bills to pay and mouths to feed. But where do Americans spend their money? Take a look at this chart below to see a breakdown of how Americans spent their ...

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January 3, 2017

Black Coffee: The Rum and Coke Edition

By Len Penzo

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Happy New Year! I want to thank all ...

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December 31, 2016

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