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5 Proactive Budgeting Tips for Single Homeowners
Balancing finances at home can be a challenge for many single homeowners. The budget is crucial, but being able to manage personal and business finances will help make things easier to work from. In this post, you'll learn about budgeting tips for ...
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The Continuing Chronicles of Elaine, Part 11
The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage:
The Days and Nights on Kianlud Mountain
Dave took many black and white pictures in the Philippines, and colored slides, and ...
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How to Control Spending by Creating a Budget
Depending on how disciplined you are, a budget may not be essential to keeping your finances under control, but it does allow you to make calculated decisions about how to spend your income. Many competent household CEOs create and use a budget to ...
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Steps You Can Take to Increase Your Financial Resilience
Research shows that 71% of adults in developing countries have a financial account. Despite this statistic, only 55% can be resilient to financial shocks. The rest find it difficult or impossible to access emergency money when such situations ...
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Investment Fraud Has Yet to Doom the Controversial EB-5 Visa Program
In 1990 Congress created the EB-5 visa program. Their goal was to stimulate the US economy, and the capital investment from foreign investors was cited as a good way to do that. The program itself gives easy green card access to foreign nationals, ...
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34 Financial Tricks to Help You Retire Early
The other day our Stacking Benjamins podcast roundtable team was discussing an article on a popular mainstream financial website about how to retire early. I especially loved the story's first recommendation: "Start saving as early as you ...
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Black Coffee: The Waiting Game
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5 Simple Reasons Why You Always Owe Taxes (and How to Change It)
Nobody loves a surprise tax bill. Even worse is owing the IRS every year, despite making changes to your withholdings.
If that sounds familiar, you'll be interested to know about the five most common reasons you always owe taxes -- and the steps ...
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The Big Advantages of Natural Gas Appliances
Most cooking aficionados prefer natural gas cooktops over electric ones because they heat evenly, and provide precision control with instant on/off capability. Natural gas appliances have other big advantages. For example, they typically last longer ...
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Is a Master’s Degree in Education Worth It? 7 Key Questions to Ask
So you're thinking about getting your master's degree in education, but you're not sure where to start - or even whether a master's degree in education is worth it. Well, there are so many things to consider: For example, should your college ...
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Comparing the Flat Tax, Fair Tax, and Progressive Tax Systems
If you dread filing your taxes every year, it's good to know there are multiple taxation systems besides the current progressive one here in the United States. So if you've heard the terms "flat tax" or "Fair Tax" then you may be wondering what they ...
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Are Energy Efficient CFL Bulbs Worth Paying More For?
The other day my home's incandescent 60-watt porch light bulb finally gave up the ghost, so I ran down to my favorite hardware store to pick up a new one. Upon arriving, the choice I had to make was whether to buy a new incandescent bulb, or an ...
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Black Coffee: Pushing the Panic Button
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The Continuing Chronicles of Elaine, Part 10
The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage:
Reporting to Japan on the Way to Korea (the Korean War was going on then). Around the time of my graduation and new Art ...
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3 Ways That Make Credit Cards Vulnerable to Fraud
Grocery store purchases might not raise the hair on the back of your neck, but seemingly-endless stories about retail hacking might. The two are more connected than you might imagine, and the binding factor is the credit card in your wallet. In fact, ...
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Common Financial Mistakes in Manufacturing (and How to Avoid Them)
For businesses that must deal with financial mistakes in manufacturing, it's important to understand that the manufacturing industry focuses on four distinct principles: inventory, forecasting, cost accounting, and production. The good news is even ...
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Blind Taste Test: Does Bottled Water Really Taste Better Than Filtered Tap?
Does bottled water taste better than filtered tap? You'd certainly think so, based on the number of people who drink it today.
And that's too bad because, compared to tap water, the bottled stuff is absurdly expensive. It also generates a lot of ...
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Black Coffee: Banking on the Future
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Behind the Science of Defining What’s Truly Priceless
Some things are utterly impossible to put a price on. For example, regardless what's offered, no rational person would ever sell their family. It's also impossible to put a monetary value on good health -- let alone human life. Even so, that didn't ...
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