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Does Smart Financial Management Equals Frugality?

Simone Travis — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:56:18 +0000

When magazines and TV shows get on a subject, there’s no getting them off it. Shouldn’t pieces done in these media on personal budgeting give it a rest telling people to lay off the Starbucks lattes every morning because it makes no financial sense today to lay out five dollars every day for this luxury? [...]

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Credit Card Perks

Simone Travis — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:25:45 +0000

It’s a nice problem to have – Americans are cursed with choice in all kinds of ways. When it comes to credit cards for instance, there are literally thousands of choices that anyone would need to sort through to find a product for their needs. And it isn’t just the consumer who has a hard [...]

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Where to Invest Money Today

Simone Travis — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:16:50 +0000

If ever there was a New Year’s resolution you would want for next year, it would have to be to do what it takes to not be staring at a devalued portfolio, as you did in 2009. So let’s look at a few ideas on where you should probably see your investments headed this year, [...]

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How To Reduce Credit Card Debt

Simone Travis — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:59:07 +0000

Credit cards can be a great thing. They offer you the way to buy something with an installed repayment plan. However, they are not as simple as they seem. For some people, a good interest rate is part of the package because they have great credit. For others, however, the interest rate is not what [...]

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Planning your Retirement Strategy with More Cunning

Simone Travis — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:58:56 +0000

When you have been working for years and can remember dreaming about the freedom to spend Monday mornings sunning yourself out front in your bathrobe, the chance to pick up your Social Security about ten minutes after you become eligible can be hard to resist. People figure that it is a pretty sharp retirement strategy [...]

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Consumer Debt Relief Programs

Simone Travis — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:07:13 +0000

I was laid off from my job almost two years ago, and didn’t have much luck finding anything else in my field until recently. Before this, I had to take on low-paying retail work just to have some cash flowing in, but those paychecks were never enough to cover all my bills even though I [...]

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Surely Better Ways Exist to Invest Money?

Simone Travis — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:50:35 +0000

When guys get together anywhere, there is forever some sport to talk about, but then there is always time to run through what investment escapades one or the other has been through recently. No one is really kind to their money managers in these conversations either; but what are those poor managers to do? It’s [...]

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