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8 Common Money Rip-Off Cases – How To Stay Alert
Watch out for everyday situations where the money you spend shouldn’t have been that much. There are many situations in our everyday life where the money we spent shouldn’t have been that much. Dollars...
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5 Shocking Tightwad Secrets of Millionaires
Stories abound about the things well-known billionaires do that border on extreme frugality. We’ve heard and read about Monaco’s Prince Rainier buying sets of socks in matching colors and designs so...
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Why Fairtrade Should Matter to You
Flipping through channels to world news you cringe at how an African village survives without running water, electricity and sanitation, and with just maize as everyday food. Your mind wanders off,...
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When It’s Time To Start Spending And Stop Saving
Understanding the relationship between saving, spending and the “right time” can optimize the value of your hard-earned money. So much has been said about the value of saving, that only a foolhardy...
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From Dead Dinos to Your Car – The Economics of Petroleum
The business of oil is a game of the giants that cuts across big words like geopolitics and climate change with, often, you at the receiving end. Ever wonder where the gasoline that you pump into your...
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10 Incredible Lost Savings Stories and Lessons Learned from Them
Have you ever experienced losing your precious savings because of a miscalculated risk or a bad decision? Or perhaps, your financial account may have slowly sunken to negative balance because of...
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In Money We Trust (Our Economy)
Stashing cash under the bed is the worst you can do for money because no one can use it How does money really work? You don’t need a degree in finance to understand it; just a couple of minutes perhaps...
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Understanding Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs)
An ARM, short for adjustable rate mortgage, is mortgage on which the interest rate is not fixed for the entire life of the loan. The rate is fixed for a specified period at the beginning, called the...
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Can We Learn from Past Recessions?
A look at the causes of the worst U.S. recessions Somewhere some time something must give in in the world of supply and demand. That’s recession pushing into our collective heads that free market is...
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Blue Collar Blues – Are We Losing Our Blue Collar Workers?
Workers hammered down the last spike to complete the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 in Utah. This symbolic event ushered in a new era, the Gilded Age from the ashes of Civil War to the turn of...
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16 Ways to Avoid Wasting Precious Fuel
America has a fascination for automobiles perhaps matched only by the desire for real estate. If only petrol was as cheap and abundant as water. But it’s not. The price of gasoline is as volatile as...
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How To Stretch Your $300 Budget To Last 30 Days
Most of us have experienced hitting rock bottom financially, even rich and successful people have been there at some point in their lives. The secret to gracefully rebound from zero balance pit is...
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Any Time is a Good Time to Teach Kids about Money
How soon should we start teaching kids about money? How young is too young? When and where is the right time? This was the hot topic of the day in the playground, of all places, as I and two of my...
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[INFOGRAPHIC] Uninsured and Unhealthy: The Health Insurance Woes of African...
Health care is on the front pages once more as the controversial Affordable Care Act develops into one of the critical pivots on which the success of President Obama’s second term is expected to turn....
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5 Deadly Money Views of Highly Impulsive People
Source: www.stockfreeimages.com Have you ever spent your hard-earned money on something that you feel will give you instant gratification or happiness while being unmindful of the consequences, and...
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Finance Channels Nature
No one was left unscathed by the global economic crisis that started in 2008. Everyone felt the shockwaves echoing from the crash triggered by the excesses of Wall Street. Many didn’t just feel...
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The Crippling Cost of Chronic Diseases
It’s unfortunate that if there’s one thing common to all ethnic groups in the United States, regardless of race, it’s their exposure to the risk of chronic diseases, the country’s leading cause of...
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The Many Sides of Bitcoin
Bitcoin has occupied front pages and preoccupied media for many weeks now and there are mountains of information (or misinformation) about this crypto-currency. Is it for real, or money from nothing?...
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Here’s How You Make Coffee a Billion-Dollar Business
Your morning caffeine fix is but a drop in the global bucket that makes coffee the number two most traded commodity in the world after petroleum. But with 100 million Americans like you drinking coffee...
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When It’s Time To Start Spending And Stop Saving
Understanding the relationship between saving, spending and the “right time” can optimize the value of your hard-earned money. So much has been said about the value of saving, that only a foolhardy...
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