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Realtors Profit Even When Home Buyers do All the Work
Remember when investors almost completely relied on brokers? Remember when there were no mutual funds or low cost ETFs? Remember when employees relied on pension funds alone for retirement? Remember when a dealership was really the only place you would go to look for cars?
Thanks to the internet and innovative financial products, consumers no longer [...]
Getting the Most Out of Selling Your Car
These are a selection of tips from the experts at AutoTrader.com.
Tips For Creating Online Ads When Selling Your Car
Post quality photos. The picture you take of your car is the first and possibly only thing a potential buyer will see. Make sure you:
Photograph your car in daylight. Photos taken at night tend to make people [...]
How I Invest
Ben and I receive a lot of emails asking about our investments and what we recommend others invest in. Because I’m not an investment adviser, you can take my investing experiences with a grain of salt. However, I have spent a great deal of time researching and I’m confident in my cautions, yet consistent approach. [...]
Use Down Time at the Office to Save Money
If you are lucky enough to have a few spare personal minutes at your workplace then why not try to use them to your economic advantage? The internet is a frugal man’s best friend and down time—maybe I should call it procrastination time—at your desk can be spent in the following cost saving ways while [...]
Is Composite Decking Right For You?
Summer is steaming towards us and there is a growing number of people who are looking to put in a deck in the back yard. So as you begin your research, you are going to be hit with an issue right away: composite decking or real wood? Personally we have composite decking with real wood [...]
9 Recession Proof Jobs
So you are job hunting…in a recession? Believe it or not there is quite a selection of options that are in the category of being what everyone needs. What are some things that everyone needs in a depressed economy like this one? People have to eat and the global population is steadily increasing. People will [...]
How To Find a Job
You might have a job right now that you love. Or you might have one that you hate. Worse still you might not even have one and really need one. Either way the following is going to help you immensely. By the end of the year its very likely that unemployment will be at 10%…Lets get started.
Save Money on Have-to-Have Items
There always seems to be at least one item that we desperately want. Whether it’s a book, electronic device, or clothes—some things are have-to-have. Rather than rushing out to the mall to fulfill your cravings, try some of these methods that will save you some money.
Save Money on Video Games
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As you read every day that you need to save money, very few places will tell you that its ok to indulge. Granted, we are guilty of this too…sometimes I feel like everything I say is a huge hammer coming down on [...]
10 Things the IRS Won’t Tell You
Smart Money Magazine has provided us with a very interesting look into the back end of the Internal Revenue Service. A lot of people have a pretty negative view of the IRS and there are also those that maintain that the fact that we are taxed is unconstitutional. While this is a little [...]
Review: The Ascent of Money
General overview:
For any one that loves money and history, this is the book for you. Ferguson does a fantastic job of telling stories and recapturing the events that lead to the environment that we know today. He successfully takes us from the origin of the word “bank” all the way to the IMF and does [...]
Summary of Passed 2009 Stimulus
President Obama wanted a stimulus package on his desk before Pesident’s Day and surprisingly, he will have it. Below is a sumary of what is in the passed version of the 2009 stimulus, thanks to the Appropporiations Committee.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides $311 billion in
appropriations, including the following critical investments:
Investments in Infrastructure and [...]
Warning Signs That Your Debt Is Becoming Unmanageable
This is a guest post from Trisha Wagner of DestroyDebt.com. If you would like to submit your article for review, feel free to email us at milkyourmoney@gmail.com. She writes regularly on the topics of getting out of debt and personal finance. She also a nice forum that merits visiting.
Do you have control over your debt or [...]
43 Things About Money That You Probably Don’t Know
One of the more recurring things that seems to come up when I talk to people about how they can maintain their income, bills, investments, retirement and over all wealth is: self education. There is nothing more powerful or fundamental than learning on your own about what the proper way to managing cash. [...]
Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme
Christopher Cox just cannotwait to get out of office at the SEC. While Bernard Madoff’s ponzi scheme was going on far longer than he was in tenure in Washington, it looks bad for him to be head commish when it blew up.
For those that are just joining, a ponzi scheme, in simple terms is when someone [...]
