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Know Something? Save Time And Tuition

Posted 24 weeks 33 min ago by Julie Rains

Frugal Living, Career and Income, Life Hacks

Are you experienced, workshop-educated, community-involved, and/or moderately-traveled and still working toward your bachelor’s degree? Write it down! You may be able to trade a nominal portfolio assessment fee for credit hours worth thousands at your brick-and-mortar college or university. I’ve helped people who have saved time and tuition in exchange for documentation of their past experiences, and I’ll show you how the process works.

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The false goal of maximizing investment returns

Posted 46 weeks 1 day ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

Along about the middle of the dot-com boom--when the market had already had two years of 20% annual gains--I read an article that suggested that individual investors had no need of a cash reserve, because they could use credit cards in an emergency. As I explained in my article about the credit squeeze , I think keeping a cash reserve is especially important right now, but I mention this article because I think it highlights a fundamental distinction in the way people think about investment returns.

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