July 2010

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How do you know if you are rich?

“Being rich” appears to have become the replacement for what used to be called the American Dream. Unfortunately, too many people define “being rich” as having more stuff than their neighbors. They are focusing on material things and often overlook what is truly important. An article at Yahoo! Finance looks at questions that children sometime [...]

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Expecting the unexpected

The hardest part of financial planning is planning for the things that you have no control over. Things like the downturn in the economy, housing prices falling and natural disasters (think Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oil spill). Although you can’t account for 100% of the bad things that happen, you can prepare yourself to [...]

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Economics 101

I don’t usually link to articles that don’t somehow relate to personal finance, unless it is an article/post that deals with the national economy. Today I came across a very good article written by Lance Burri at Right Wing News. The title of the article, “Keynsian putzery“, almost caused me to skip to the next [...]

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You can do what the government won’t!

I am not an economist, and I don’t play one on TV, but I am pretty sure that the current economic plan being laid out in congress isn’t working. The primary reason we as a country are in the mess we are in is because we have become a country that has little to no [...]

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