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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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Write for money online - Part 5 - Your own blog or website

Posted February 13, 2009 - 15:12 by Xin Lu

Making Extra Cash, Art and Leisure

In parts one through four I reviewed various revenue sharing websites. There are actually many more of these sites out there that share a part of their revenue as long as you provide the content. So in this final portion I will write about the pros and cons of earning from your own website or blog.

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So, will Cash4Gold offer me cash to kill this story?

Posted February 5, 2009 - 09:49 by Paul Michael

Consumer Affairs

Pirate gold

You’ve seen the tacky ads; you’ve been entertained by Ed McMahon and MC Hammer; but hopefully, you haven’t fallen for any of it. Cash4Gold has a simple promise; send them your unwanted gold (and we all have a ton of unwanted valuables lying around I’m sure) and in return they’ll pay “top dollar” for it. But as you’ll see from over 260 complaints to the Better Business Bureau, top dollar certainly doesn’t mean what it used to.

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Write for money online series - Part II - Associated Content

Posted January 30, 2009 - 19:00 by Xin Lu

General Tips, Making Extra Cash, Art and Leisure

Associated  Content

In the first part of this series about writing for money online I covered a relatively new revenue sharing site named Bukisa. Today I am reviewing a much more established website called Associated Content. I joined this site over a year ago so I have a bit more experience with how it works.

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Need a job? Apply to become a Census enumerator

Posted January 22, 2009 - 14:10 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Making Extra Cash

The Census Bureau produces an important set of demographics data about the United States every ten years. The 2010 Census is coming up soon and the Bureau is hiring thousands of temporary workers to help with data gathering. The recruitment starts now.

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Recession Journal Part II: Broke or Poor?

Posted January 18, 2009 - 18:55 by Jabulani Leffall

Personal Finance

We must understand fundamentally while some of our exercises in saving go for naught and why when things turn around, we forget our lessons. Unfortunately in America just eat one bite from the tree of knowledge, just one trip out of town, just one spending spree, just one feel of fine fabric, one morsel of Kobe steak can actually program your hard drive in a way that’s hard to undo.

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Book Review: Rich Like Them by Ryan D'Agostino

Posted January 7, 2009 - 00:27 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, General Tips, Lifestyle

One summer my mother showed me a series of articles in Money magazine by a reporter named Ryan D'Agostino who knocked on the doors of expensive homes to find out how the occupants became rich. These articles were quite memorable for me because I thought it was hilarious how the author literally invaded the private property of rich people. Now a couple years later, D'Agostino has collected the entire experiment along with his personal stories into a book called Rich Like Them.

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Five alternatives to 0% yield U.S. treasuries

Posted December 11, 2008 - 17:10 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Investment

This week the 4 week T-bill rate was driven down to 0% and the demand for these treasuries was astounding. It seems that investors are so pessimistic that they are willing to accept no yield for the safety of their principal. If you have been following the markets for the last few months it does seem like every other asset is falling. So, where could we put our cash if we do not want 0% yield treasuries?

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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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Will 4.5% mortgage rates jumpstart the housing market?

Posted December 4, 2008 - 11:44 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Real Estate and Housing, Consumer Affairs

It seems like everyday the folks in Washington are rolling out a new plan to fix our economy. The Federal Reserve is running out of room to cut their federal funds rate, so now the news reports that the Treasury is planning to forcibly cut mortgage interest rates to 4.5% on new mortgages. The details about the plan still remains unclear, but will this boost the sagging housing market? Also, how could this help you as a consumer?

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