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The Pros and Cons of Home Ownership: My Perspective

Now a few months into home ownership, I feel like I have a lot to reflect upon. To start, let me say that I am not the kind of person that worries about a lot of things. I have built my life around minimizing unnecessary stress while working on the things I want to do. [...]

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Overcoming Financial Fear: Hunkering Down

For as long as I can remember, I have been a person that you would generally call “Risk averse.” As such, I often fall prey to a very simple blunder that consumers and companies alike make: Letting fear and worry dictate their actions instead of doing what you know is right. In terms of finance, [...]

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Returning to a Regular Schedule

So it appears that between my transition to being self employed and buying a house, the blog has managed to fall by the wayside. Well, no more! Finance is a more important part of my life than ever, and as a result I would really like to get back to a regular posting schedule. I [...]

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$53 Trillion in US Debt..Ouch

  There are some things I understand about the $700 billion dollar bailout plan. The financial markets were, in fact, in a state of total chaos. The government needed to do something that would assuage the general fear in the marketplace and provide some government support to a rapidly deteriorating market place. It would hurt [...]

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Youtube Finance: DuckTales Explains Inflation

I came across a great clip today that ties into how I’ve been feeling lately. I haven’t been a big proponent of the bailout, and in fact I’ve been giving my representatives a call to let them know I’d prefer they not pass the estimated $700 billion dollar package to bailout financial institutions, and I [...]

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