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A Quick Guide To Repairing Your Finances After College

Personal Finance

If you are the super sensible type of college grad who spent all of your time at school working hard to stay afloat, you might well have come out with your diploma as well as a nice pot of savings – or at least not too much debt. If on the other hand you didn’t (like 99% [...]

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The Los Angeles Way of Life?

Personal Finance

I tweeted last night about my minor obsession with Quora. I find all of the questions and answers fascinating, and as you can see below in my tweet I have a special place in my heart for the personal finance area of the site. @Quora is my new online obsession. Mostly lurking right now, but [...]

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Infographic: Surprising Side Effects of Rising College Costs

Miscellaneous

How many of you find this rings true? Have you found yourself delaying ‘life’ because of high debt incurred while getting an education? Infographic courtesy of onlinecollege.org

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4 Lessons I’ve Learned on My Quest for Financial Freedom

Personal Finance
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Most things that are worth doing aren’t easy. That said, getting to financial freedom doesn’t have to be entirely difficult. In my quest for financial freedom I’ve struggled and I’ve also had some success.  I’ve learned a few things that have been important in both my personal growth and that of my estate. I’d like [...]

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Smartphone apps that redefine financial management

Personal Finance

This is a guest post by Eliza Morgan who is a full time blogger.  She specializes in writing about business credit cards. You can reach her at: elizamorgan856 at gmail dot com. The versatility of smartphones has made them the most important tech item. Sure, we might use laptops or desktops to use word processing software or view [...]

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Plan for the future and save for your vacations

Miscellaneous
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On a recent trip to South America many things stood out, but the thing that was most staggering was not the adventure itself, but rather meeting people who had cashed in their 401K’s and those who were traveling across the country on credit. I also met those who were traveling across the country with the [...]

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Credit Karma: A Review

Loans and Credit

I recently discovered a service that gives you free access (no strings attached) to your credit score: Credit Karma. I first heard of Credit Karma at the Financial Blogger Conference this year. To be honest I’m not sure what took me so long. Unlike other ‘free credit report’ services out there Credit Karma does not sell [...]

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