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Sponsor Me For The CMN Bowl-A-Thon
My employer is a big supporter of the Children’s Miracle Network and their One Darn Cool School program which they support in conjunction with the Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Every year we hold numerous fundraisers in order to raise funds for this program, which provides educational materials and instruction for children unable to attend school regularly…
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Blogging Idol Begins!
Here’s some awesome news and something I am excited to be a part of. Daily Blog Tips has just kicked off the very first Blogging Idol competition. Blogging Idol is a competition between (as of last count) 96 bloggers to see who can gain the most subscribers between today and the end of July. I’m…
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Weekend Reading: June 28th
There’s been some great reading online this past week. A lot of the links that I’m posting this week are related to simple ways to save money, which should come in handy with the quickly increasing cost of living that we’re experiencing here in the U.S. David at Moneyning posted some fantastic advice on how…
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Weekend Reading: June 21st
Buenos Noches everyone! It’s my last night in Mexico, so you can fully expect some updates about what I’ve learned and experienced while here… look for that sometime next week. In the meantime here’s some links to what I’ve been reading this week. David from moneyning wrote a fantastic post about practicing patience when it…
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Weekend Reading: June 14th
Welcome to the first edition of Weekend Reading. A lot of blogs out there do this and I think it’s a fantastic idea. Most of the following links are from my blogroll, so I’d definitely recommend your taking the time to go through the blogs I link to occasionally. There’s some great information out there.…
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I’m Going to Mexico
I’ll be taking off tomorrow morning from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on my way to Monterrey, MX where I will be doing a very short study abroad session at Tecnologico de Monterrey (the number one business school in all of Latin America). I’ll be gone from June 7th until June 22nd and during the…
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Regulation D Is Outdated
I understand the purpose of a savings account completely: they are to be used to put money into and to keep it there. However it would be an insane idea to think that one would not have the ability to access that money with any level of ease. The Federal Reserve however seems to think…
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The State of the Housing Market
Unless you’ve been asleep for the past year, you are more than aware of the slump in the housing market. You might be someone who is adversely affected by the downturn in housing, or maybe you are waiting for the downturn to continue because you are looking to buy your own property. My wife and…
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Happy Holidays
I have been quite busy this past week between Thanksgiving and preparing for finals week at school. I will be coming back tomorrow with another Friday Book Club and I’ll be back full force next week, but in the meantime I wanted to link you to some of my favorite finance posts that I’ve written…
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A Charity I Recently Donated To
Do you donate to any charities on a regular basis, or have you made a substantial donation to one in the past? My wife and I just recently made a substantial (keep in mind that this term is relative) donation to a charity which treats children in less-fortunate countries for cleft lip. Now before I…
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Greed, Poor Management.. or Both?
If you try to keep up on business news like I do, then by now you have read about Intel and their third-quarter record sales. These record sales can be attributed to strong demand for laptop and notebook computers (on a side note, I do wonder how much of this can be attributed to the…