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This Post Really Suk-kuks: Examining Islamic Finance

Posted 8 weeks 2 days ago by Jabulani Leffall

Personal Finance, Investment, Consumer Affairs

There is a burgeoning form of Islamic fundamentalism and it has nothing to do with hate speech or bombs -- Shariah-compliant financing. These loans, based on the premise that there is no production value in credit and that loan issuance must be based on tangilbe assets and require tight debt levels, are not only growing exponentially in use but are available to non-Muslims and well, kind of make sense in some cases.

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Money Porn: Are you an "Adult" Investor?

Posted 21 weeks 2 days ago by Jabulani Leffall

Personal Finance

With the use of provocative phrases such as "hard sell," "sharp-rise," "capital injection," inflation," "surge" and "double-digit growth," is it any wonder that watching real-time business news on television seems more and more akin to watching skin flicks. And oh what an empty feeling when the television goes off.

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Review of The Money Mammals DVD for Children

Posted 28 weeks 6 days ago by Linsey Knerl

Personal Finance

Snigglezoo Entertainment recently sent me a review copy of their Money Mammals DVD to try out. The results were both surprising and delightful. Here are the five key areas that impressed me about the video, along with resources for making sure all that new-found financial info really sticks!

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Speeding through your mortgage

Posted 1 year ago by Julie Rains

Filed Under: Real Estate and Housing

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Now that many of you have crunched the numbers for accelerating your mortgage payoff, I think you are ready for a quick lesson on speeding through your mortgage. Now, I am not saying you should speed through your mortgage but there is a program available that helps you pay off your mortgage very quickly (approximately 10 years) so let’s see how it works.

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Womanhood microscopic and other hot stock tips

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Investment

One of my favorite things about getting spam is... wait. Oh, I don't have a favorite thing. Unless you count the creativity involved in coming up with new filters to block spam, there's really nothing about spam that I find positive. Spam is completely obnoxious. It costs business a lot of money to filter out, and it is sent out people by whose kneecaps deserve a little rendezvous with my uncle, Big Meatball Gino, if you know what I'm saying, and I think you do.

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Queercents.com - Financial Tips from a Queer Perspective

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Personal Finance

Queercents is a great blog written by and for the queer community. Founded by Nina Smith, the Queercents site offers tips, anecdotes, and epiphanies about finance, taxes, investing, and more, all from a queer perspective. I particularly enjoy Ten Money Questions, an interview column in which Nina asks prominent members of the gay community about their own financial habits and insights.

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Afraid, Yet Smitten - You Haven't Heard of Violent Acres Yet?

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Personal Finance

So, if you have yet to read the writings of The Terrifyingly Funny Evil Blog Queen V at Violent Acres (and you should have, since handsome single studmuffin Will Chen linked her in his Top 20), then you're in for a real treat/therapy session. Someone sent me a link to her story about How To Fight, which is, hands-down, one of my favorite blog posts ever. But more topical, at least for this site, is her 3-part series on financial indepedence (you can read parts 1, 2, and 3 by clicking here).

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