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Having a baby changes everything – from your alone time as a couple, to your time with friends to how you spend your free time. It also changes your bottom line. Caring for a child can be expensive. One of the easiest ways to save money is to make your...
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All business owners face certain challenges, but women often have additional obstacles that their male counterparts are less likely to encounter. But this doesn’t mean women are less successful than men. In fact, statistics show that women are starting...
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Financial infidelity - lying or refusing to be honest with your spouse or partner about money. As more and more marriages are made up of two-income couples, financial planners and marriage counselors are encountering a problem known as “financial infidelity...
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Life insurance is something that many people just don't want to think about. For some, its about admitting mortality – and that can be depressing! Avoiding talking about life insurance or admitting we need it will not make anyone live longer! So why...
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Tithing: what does it mean to Christians today? For many Christians, the season of Lent (from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday) is a particularly important part of the church year. It is a time when believers are often called upon to give up or take...
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Our small business start up adventure continues … It really is quite amazing (everyone tells us so) just how much we've accomplished in the 21 days since we took the frightening step of signing a 6-month lease on a 1200-foot retail sales space and...
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He didn't mention “Joe the Plumber!” “Joe the Plumber,” whose actual name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, gained attention during the presidential campaign after asking Democratic candidate Barack Obama about his small business tax policy during a...
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes, wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1789. Well, its tax time again – time to file our annual reports on how we did – financially in 2009. And of course, to pay our share! In order to minimize...
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There are few personal finance tools more powerful, more necessary … and more unused … than the household budget. Few would attempt to run a business without a financial plan that charts the path between success and disaster, but it is far too common...
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Millions of people took advantage of the many adjustable-rate mortgage options offered a couple years ago. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Housing values were climbing, houses were being flipped at huge profits, and the low initial interest rates...
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Most of the news coming out of the housing market is bad. Home values continue to tumble. The first quarter reports show a fourteen percent value loss over the past year. The national median home value is now the same as in 2005. There’s no doubt about...
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Preparing a budget is tough enough; sticking to it is even harder. And then, to make things worse, the price of groceries has risen like a soufflé. Do you feel like someone just stuck their foot out into the aisle to deliberately trip you up? Here are...
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If you’ve been breathlessly awaiting your tax rebate, you can exhale sooner than expected. The first of the direct deposits will be hitting the bank April 28, and by Monday, May 9 the paper checks will be in the mail. All $100 billion of the stimulus...
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Remember the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? If you do, then you also remember Ferris' boring economcis teacher, whose monotone delivery of "Bueller . . . Bueller . . . anyone . . . Bueller?" while taking attendance was recently...
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I get a headache trying to figure out the financial media these days. Last week, the business pages were full of gloom-and-doom stories about the bad economy and how the housing mess is greasing the skids for a recession this year. I thought that the...
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