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Placing Prepositions: Where you from? Where you at?

Posted February 15, 2009 - 14:18 by Jabulani Leffall

Personal Finance

Our spending and money management choices may be influenced by factors we can't control in our own minds as well as factors we couldn't control growing up. You may ask, to what are you referring Willis? Well the question is this: How would Arnold Jackson have faired in his personal finances if not for Phil Drummond or would he have been fine?

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Book review: Towers of Gold

Posted December 10, 2008 - 03:15 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

Cover of Towers of Gold

It will not, I think, surprise my regular readers to hear that I like to read books about money. All kinds of books about money--not just books on personal finance and frugality, but just about anything, including monetary histories and stories of wealth. Dinkelspiel's new book hits those last two categories (besides being an engaging biography as well).

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Patriotism and Personal Finance - A Brief Walk Through American History

Posted July 4, 2008 - 00:00 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Real Estate and Housing, Taxes

Child Saluting American Flag

To all the Americans out there, happy Independence Day! I think this a great day to reflect upon how personal finance and patriotism is so intertwined in America. So I dug up a few tidbits from American history and summarized them here.

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Is Social Security Just A Grand Ponzi Scheme?

Posted May 13, 2008 - 18:47 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Taxes

I received my Social Security statement this week and it was a useless piece of paper to me since I do not qualify for retirement benefits yet. I always hear critics of Social Security say that it is a government sanctioned Ponzi scheme, and today I did a little research into why this comparison is often made.

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