Taxes

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Afraid of making a mistake on your taxes?

If you haven’t completed your taxes for this year you have less just over three weeks to file. This year has been pretty busy and every time I start to do ours, something else seems to pop up. My goal is to get them done this week, so that I am not rushing through them [...]

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Five for Friday! – February 27, 2009

Last Friday I mentioned that I was glad to have gotten to the end of a rocky stock market week. I was hoping that this week, I would be able to say that the stimulus package was working and confidence had returned to Wall St. Unfortunately, I am glad to be getting to the end [...]

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Five for Friday! – February 13, 2009

I hope you have had a great week. There has been a lot of movement in the political arena with the compromising on the “Economic Stimulus” bill. Even though the final number is down from the original number, there is no way this bill will stimulate the economy the way the media is reporting. It [...]

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Is it Robin Hood or socialism?

This is the first post that I have written that doesn’t relate specifically to personal finance. We teach that personal finance begins with personal responsibility and you are your own best way of gaining control of your financial situation. However, based on this comment by Barack Obama, it is obvious that he and I share [...]

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