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Turning finances into an extreme sport

I don’t know a lot about extreme sports, except that the people that compete in some of the events are either crazy or very brave. Either way they enjoy some very exciting opportunities. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to turn the “extreme sport” attitude into a “personal finance” attitude? Well, now [...]

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The Yakezie Challenge

If you have been visiting this site for any length of time, you know that I often link to other sites and comment on posts from other bloggers. One of the benefits of the blogosphere is getting to read content from a lot of different points of view. Another benefit as an author is getting [...]

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Becoming wealthy is simple

Often you hear someone say something or you read something and you think, “Well, of course. Who didn’t know that?” You know what I’m talking about. Those things that are so simple that everyone should already be doing them. For example, an article published over at MSN Money entitled, The simple way to get rich: [...]

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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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