Personal Finance Blog by Debit versus Credit

Stock Market Basics: Investing For Beginners

This is the first of a multi-part series entitled “Investing for Beginners”.  Over the next several parts of this series I’ll be covering basic skills needed for investing such as Accounting, Economics and Stock Market Basics.  Today I’ll begin with “Stock Market Basics”.
An accounting professor of mine once told me that if anyone wants to [...]

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The Economy’s In Shambles, So What Do You Want To Know?

There’s been a lot of crazy stuff going on out in the world lately.  We’re facing wars and economic issues and even weather phenomena.  Sometimes it’s hard to focus on what’s important when you are bombarded with different forces in every waking aspect of life.  It may be difficult to concentrate on your financial situation [...]

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Essential Money Saving Tips For Students

Today we’ll be featuring a guest post from hopeark who will be sharing some money saving tips for students.  Enjoy!
It is easy to get caught in the rush of things when you are in college. In the midst of studying, part-time jobs, socializing and extracurricular activities that you have, you are most likely to forget [...]

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5 Reasons We Don’t Need No Stinking Bailout

A wise man once said, “with great power comes great responsibility.”  Whether you are into Spider Man or not it’s hard to ignore such a profound statement, especially when the U.S. is facing times of great turmoil and our nations’ leaders are asking for unprecedented levels of power in order to shore up the financial [...]

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The Carnival of Personal Finance #171

Sound Money Matters is hosting the Celebrate Fall edition of The Carnival of Personal Finance, highlighting the best personal finance articles around.  My recent article on Debit versus Credit, The 3 Dumbest Financial Decisions I’ve Made, was featured under Money Management: Make Soup.
There are some fantastic articles in this week’s carnival.  In addition to the [...]

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Disputing an Inaccuracy on Your Credit Report

You may have been turned down for a loan recently and were told by the bank that your credit was just not good enough.  Would this concern you, if it were the case?  It should.  They’re essentially telling you that you’re too risky and they don’t necessarily believe that they’ll be getting their money back [...]

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Debit versus Credit is Co-Sponsoring a HUGE contest!

Freebie Reporter is holding a HUGE entrecard contest.  The First prize includes 30,000 EC and several other fantastic prizes, such as free advertising at The Asian Economist for a month.  Debit versus Credit is one of the sponsors of this contest and will be giving away 2000 EC at the end of the contest to [...]

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