Investment

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Concerned about making wise investments?

On October 1, 2008, the stock market was trading around 11,000 points. Yesterday, February 20, 2009 the market closed just under 7400 points. That means the market is down over 2500 in just under 5 months. Most people have been riding a wave of fear with regard to what they should do with their investments. [...]

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2009 IRA Contribution Limits

“Pay yourself first” is a common phrase around the personal finance water cooler. The idea behind the phrase is that you must be putting away some money for savings and investing, before the entire check is allocated to other areas of your budget. Part of being able to save and invest is learning to live [...]

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Five for Friday! – January 30, 2009

After being late last week on my Five for Friday post, I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen again. So I set a goal, and I achieved the goal. As a matter of fact I actually finished it early due to staying home one day because of bad weather. Here are my five picks [...]

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Finder’s Keeper’s

Remember being young and coming across something that didn’t belong to you, yet piqued your interest, and showed some promise of being beneficial. The phrase we used to claim the ‘found’ item was, “Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers”. Basically we found it, so we are going to keep it, and the person that lost it, is [...]

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Stay with a sure thing?

The average person that has money in the stock market is basically wondering one of two things. First, should I get out of the market now and put everything into a CD where I know I won’t get a great return, but at least I won’t be loosing money? Second, why didn’t I get out [...]

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It’s a buying opportunity!

We all know one way to make money in the stock market is to buy low and sell high. Over the last several weeks we have been seeing the exact opposite of this philosophy because of fear. Fear, I think, that has been somewhat inflated thanks to the 24 hour news cycle that we now [...]

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