What is your ultimate financial goal?

For many their ultimate goal could be a 15,00o sq ft. house, a nice retirement fund or something as small as a nice happy retirement. I believe there are other goals as well. It can be a nice vacation once a year while still being fully employed or a nice dinner out to a deluxe restaurant once [...]

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3 Things to Help You Get Your Dream Job After School

There was a time when have a post secondary education not only qualified you for a job but practically guaranteed one. This was around the same time that few people pursued a post secondary education (supply and demand people!). For better or for worse this is no longer the case. Todays graduates need to be [...]

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Find the best price online- Froogle it!

When I try and look up various prices for any electronic that I plan on purchasing online, like anyone else I want to shop around for the best price. Since there are hundreds of thousands of websites selling each different product, theres no possible way to search more than 20 different websites without having a [...]

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Pursuing Alternate Forms of Income

Getting wealthy isn’t always about increasing the size of one stream of income and in fact it is a lot easier and more effective to build up multiple streams.
These streams can be as simple as blogging on the side or as complex as starting a full fledged business (although if your blog is popular enough, [...]

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The Cheapest Vacation You’ll Ever Take!

As a person who has taken at least 40 vacations in their lifetime and worked in various aspects of the hospitality industry, over time I learned many valuable secrets and tips from hotel managers and everyone else in the tourism industry.
Here are some tips that will definetly be of great help in finding a great [...]

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NYSE Now Open 24 Hours a Day!

Think of the possibilities. Think of the changes this would bring.
Trading stocks 24/7 would equally have its perks and problems. The other day, I was thinking that since the Foreign Currency Exchange or FOREX was 24/7/365 what would the current face of financial trading look like here in the US if both the Nasdaq and NYSE [...]

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Re: Free Things I love

I thought I would respond to Stack Pennies article called Free Things I love with my own list.
Free Software: I absolutely love not paying for software which is clearly shown by my desktop. I have quiet a few shareware applications that I use regularly and having to pay for them would only put a frown [...]

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5 Early Life Lessons

[This this a guest post by my friend Rocky Kwan, if you have any questions please leave a comment]
As a young businessman and a student, there are many life lessons to be learnt. By taking your mistakes and learning from them, a person becomes stronger and more efficient in doing things. I’ve seen many coworkers [...]

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Beward of Some Online Banks and Lenders

Today you being the day searching google for the best Certificate of Deposit or Mortgage rate you can find. A plethora of results pop up and the “paid sponsored links” are showing some unbelieveable rates. Do youself a favor, turn off you computer.
Some of those links are scams and off-shore “banks”. One I came across [...]

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This Week’s Interesting Articles

As a weekly tradition, Peter and I like to share some of the best articles that we have read during the week. Some of the articles I show vary in subject, but mostly stick to the overall theme of the blog. So lets get started!

John Chow and Taking Money out of Taxes - One of [...]

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