Win $20 of free advertising at BidVertiser.com, February

Cameron and I thought we would throw together a little contest to reward loyal readers. We thought we would start off by making a prize that fellow entrepreneurs will find helpful. So if you have your own blog, a website or just feel like promoting one, we are giving away $20 worth of advertising at [...]

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Real Estate Market Indicators: Total Sales, Part IV

Wow we’re already on Part IV if this research mini series. I hope you found the previous 3 indicators helpful. It is always important to do your research before putting your name on the dotted line and I hope this series will improve the quality of your research.So Part IV is Total Sales, total [...]

Filed under: Due Diligence, Investments, Real Estate

What in the heck is FOREX?

Forget about your ancestor’s traditional way of buying and selling Fortune 500 stocks on the Dow Jones or Nasdaq. Move over 401k and Pension, the 24/7 worldwide Foreign Currency Exchange has arrived. The term is on every website and every blog. It’s Forex- The Foreign Currency Exchange.
So what is traded? Currency. All types of currency [...]

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Money Markets, Savings, or a C.D.?

Help! The Economy is borderline recession and my stocks are dropping, how can I save my money?
Some of us have either put our money away in a low interest savings account or a C.D. for a period of 1-5 years. All are financially stable options and are based on both the Fed rate and interest [...]

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Finding your investor personality

I was fortunate enough to attend a seminar/presentation that a friend of my put on. She is starting her own company and this presentation was sort of a pre-launch, it was very small but there will be a much larger one in march.
I worked the doors for around half an hour so, always lending a [...]

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Is Ethanol Fuel a Myth?

Don’t get me wrong, gasoline sure has that addicting smell. However, pumping ethanol fuel into my SUV smells like gold, at least our nation’s farmers think so. Grown in the heartland of the U.S., ethanol seems to be a blessing in disguise to replace the ever so expensive and depleting crude oil reserves. We [...]

Filed under: Frugal, Green

Buy High, Sell Higher?

Everybody knows the saying “Buy low, sell high”, its the basic goal of every single investment. All it means is that you should sell something for more then you purchased it for and thus generate a profit. It is very simple to understand but a bit harder to put into practice. Hard enough that many [...]

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Real Estate Market Indicators: Personal Income, Part III

First off I would like to welcome Cameron to the blog, he has already made his first post so I hope you like it. Him and I have experience and knowledge in different areas so we should be able to expand our range of topics.
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So now that you’ve taken a look at the population growth [...]

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Establishing Credit- How is it done?

Greetings everyone,
This is my first post as Co-Author of Money Management and YOU! and I hope you all enjoy!
-Cameron
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People graduate high school or college and discover that they eventually need to purchase a car, mortgage, pay off loans, or purchase various other expensive yet necessary items. From my expertise, I asked my father and mother [...]

Filed under: Debt, Saving

Another batch of articles

I apologize for being so late with these article links. It has been a crazy week. So here they are:
Lazy Man and Money compares personal finance to a football team. Just in time for the super bowl
Consumerism Commentary shows what it takes to come a millionaire at the age of 35
The Frugal Duchess talks about [...]

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