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Beware This Year's Scams of Christmas
While the concept "forewarned is forearmed" is true for every day of the year, it's particularly true during the holidays. December is the time when most of us focus less on our day jobs and more on...
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'I Put My Career on Hold for My Boyfriend's Job'
In our Money Mic series, we hand over the podium to people with controversial views about money. These are their views, not ours, but we welcome your responses.Today, one woman shares how she gave up...
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Overlooked Rental Home Cash Flow
Cash flow, that monthly bank deposit of rent collected in excess of operating expenses is a major consideration when investors evaluate a rental property. Sometimes new investors forget one component...
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Question the Truth for Financial Success in 2016
Good personal financial management is a habit and very much a part of a healthy lifestyle. As much as I'd like to say that we are either born with these skills or not, that's just not true. These are...
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Ask Brianna: My Student Loan Grace Period Is Over. What Should I Do Now?
Welcome to "Ask Brianna," a Q&A column that helps 20-somethings prepare for the job search, handle money and manage student loans. Every other week, a new "Ask Brianna" will address these topics...
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Making a Household Inventory List Can Save Time and Money
Did you know that the tax code allows you to claim tax deductions for household damage caused by thefts, vandalism, fires, floods, hurricanes and others kinds of casualties? But the law imposes several...
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Pet Insurance: Is It Helpful or a Drain on Your Bank Account?
You adopted your newest four-legged family member, anticipating fun times romping and going for long walks together. For the most part, you've been able to do all of this. When you took sweet, little...
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How a Missing Wallet Inspired a Spending Diet
My wallet slipped out of my jacket pocket as I snoozed on a recent early morning flight from New York to Washington, DC. I only realized it was missing when I tried to pay the cab driver who picked me...
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The New Airbnb-Landlord Connection
Libertarian technology enthusiasts get very excited about the idea of apps and other new tech ideas disrupting existing markets and creating new ones. The problem, though, is that the ultimate goal...
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Talk About Money Now to Save Your Relationship Later
It is no secret that money is one of the top reasons couples divorce and break up. You would also probably be shocked to know how many couples getting married (as in, about to spend their entire lives...
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Obama's Weak 'Pay Transparency' Executive Order
Employment lawyers are scrambling to help their clients comply with President Obama's new "transparency in pay" executive order, effective this week. They needn't worry. It's far too weak to harm...
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The Big Short and Bernie's Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
If you haven't yet seen The Big Short - directed and co-written by Adam McKay, based on the non-fiction prize-winning book by Michael Lewis about the housing and credit bubble that triggered the Great...
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How Retirees Can Avoid Running Out of Money: The Role of Longevity Annuities
Retirees are becoming a larger part of the population while their capacity to fund retirement comfortably has been declining. The population 65 and older, which now numbers about 48 million, is...
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Resolution Kept: The Relief of Having Planned Ahead for College Costs
As I look at the year ahead and consider resolutions to potentially make, I inevitably think of various others I've made at the start of prior years -- and kept, with varying degrees of commitment and...
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Top 5 Ways To Spend Your 1.4 Billion Dollar Powerball Winnings
I fully intend to win the 1.4 billion dollar Powerball jackpot this coming Wednesday. But just in case something goes awry I wanted to provide you with some suggestions on productive and enjoyable...
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Good News! Your Odds of Winning the Precious $1.5 Billion Powerball Just Went...
I loved my mother's mother dearly, and respected her greatly. My grandmother was a bit ahead of her time: born in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. in 1920, she moved to Washington, D.C. with her husband, and was...
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Huge Powerball Jackpot Is Less Than Taxpayers Give Yearly to Controversial...
The unprecedented Powerball jackpot is supposed to bestow extraordinary riches upon the long-awaited winners. But did you know that each of the three winners will receive less over a 29-year payout...
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Bernie Sanders Is Wrong: Credit Unions Charge More Than 15%
Bernie Sanders wants to extend a 15% rate cap to all lenders in America. He cites the rate cap imposed on credit unions in 1980 as the basis for his policy: In 1980, Congress passed legislation to...
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7 Things to Do if You Win the Powerball
The jackpot of the Powerball for Wednesday January 13th 2016 hit a historical record of $1.6 BILLION... Isn't that crazy? What would you do with so much money? I have never had huge lump sums in my...
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9 Pieces of Advice for the Powerball Winner
The Powerball jackpot this past Wednesday was the largest jackpot in United States history. With three winners announced (so far), that still leaves the winners with a large chunk of change. With 1.325...
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