The Carnival of Personal Finance #171

Personal Finance

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 [...]

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Disputing an Inaccuracy on Your Credit Report

Loans and Credit

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!

Personal Finance

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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The End of the World As We Know It: National Bankruptcy!

Debt

If you had to take a close look at the U.S. markets and the financial system and give an estimate on the absolute worst-case scenario for our economy, what would you predict? Martin Hennecke, senior manager of private clients at Tyche, has done just that and he has publicly declared that he believes that the [...]

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When Will The Bailouts End?

Miscellaneous

Maybe it’s just me, but these bailouts seem to be happening more and more frequently these days. Six months ago it was Bear Stearns. Just two weeks ago we bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now, as you’ve undoubtedly heard, the U.S. government has taken it upon itself to bail out American International Group, [...]

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The 3 Dumbest Financial Decisions I’ve Made

Personal Finance

We’ve all been there and we’ve all done it.  We’ve made stupid financial decisions.  Decisions that have haunted us – haunted us for years after they were made.  It’s not unavoidable, but sometimes it feels that way.  Looking back we always feel stupid and wish we would have made different choices, but by that time [...]

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Investing in Rentals

Investing

Today we’ll be featuring a guest post from Ed Kirkland, who is a Realtor in Florida. He’ll share with us some ideas and tips for investing in rental properties. Investing in rental properties has proven over the years to be a fantastic way to make money. Not only does owning rentals increase your equity and [...]

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