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Something for nothing?

Recently, we talked about the rising cost of food, and how companies were trying to keep prices lower, while still cutting costs. Today I ran across another article that plays on our emotions to encourage us to spend more. We all like something for nothing, but how many of us have heard that “nothing is [...]

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None of the above!

If you have listened to the radio, watched TV, read the newspaper or talked to a friend or colleague the last two days you have no doubt heard about the governmental bailout being tossed about by the fed chairman, Ben Bernanke and the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Today the congress appears to be putting the [...]

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Where’s the food?

If you have read the newspaper, listened to a news report or talked to someone at work lately, you have no doubt heard someone complain about food prices going up. In an effort to stabilize the increasing prices, some manufacturers are decreasing the amount of product going into the box. Net impact, you pay more [...]

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Teaching the kids

What are you doing to teach your children about personal finance? Do they know the importance of saving for things they want or are you teaching by example and leading them to believe that the credit card is the answer to all of your wants? “Reading, writing, arithmetic” — too bad that list doesn’t include [...]

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Who’s in charge?

I was listening to the radio this afternoon on the way home and Rush Limbaugh was talking about the negative impact the government mandated cafe’ standards have on the automobile industry.  This weekend the government stepped in and bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an attempt to help stabilize the mortgage industry.  The [...]

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