Archive for February 2012

Barack Obama: Bigger Tax Cutter than Bush

A few weeks ago on one of my favorite sites, Don’t Quit Your Day Job, I made a comment on one of their excellent-as-usual technical analyses, suggesting that they should turn their analytical powers on a claim I’d been hearing: that Barack Obama is a bigger tax

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Make a Monthly Debt Budget: Rule 3

This is Rule 3 in my 10 Rules to End Your Debt and Change Your Life. Now that you have mastered Rule 2 and dedicated a month to spending less than you earn and tracking every expense, it’s time to make a monthly debt and bills budget

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Best Personal Finance Writing - Week 8

This has been a busy week at my day job, but thankfully I can still find time to write. Not much new to report. I just finished 3 weeks on the Slow Carb Diet Extreme (I added the Extreme part because I’m not eating any grain at

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SpringCoin Review (+3 Free Months!)

For many people facing consumer debt, it’s not the end of the world. With a few years of hard work and some lifestyle changes, they can climb their way back to zero. While they aren’t getting ahead, they can at least stay above water and not drown.

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Permanent Portfolio: Safe, Stable and Simple?

Let me first say that I’m not an investor. I own no stocks, no shares in mutual or index funds. Nothing. All I have is some money in two pension funds, which will probably be returned to me before I am vested. So why has the Permanent

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Spend Less than You Earn: Rule 2

This is Rule Two in my 10 Rules to Eliminate Your Debt and Change Your Life Now that you’ve combined your finances with your partner (Rule One), it is time to get to work with your most pressing problem: your debt. The first step is learning to

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Best Personal Finance Writing - Week 7

I want to thank all my readers for a great 2012 so far. Readership is growing and I reached a major milestone on Valentine’s Day: this site dropped below 200,000 on the Alexa ranking system. If you are not sure what that means, Alexa is a company

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