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Do You Play the Balance Transfer Game?
Do you constantly find yourself chasing the next great credit card deal, whether it be no annual fee or 10,000 free airline miles or 0% interest for six months? Is it an obsession or a compulsion? Do you do it for the thrill of having yet another available credit line, or are you like a…
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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…
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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…
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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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The End of the World As We Know It: National Bankruptcy!
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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The 3 Dumbest Financial Decisions I’ve Made
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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How Your Credit Score Defines You
Remember in High School when you would worry about how well you would do on your tests, and how those scores would either make or break your college admissions and scholarships? It wasn’t the most relaxing thing to think about. Well now as adults we continue to be graded and assessed by our scores, only…
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Why Lauren Willis Is Wrong About Money
I ran across an interesting article the other day which featured an interview with Lauren Willis, an associate law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. The name of the article is Why You Can’t Teach Money and it’s a question and answer session between a writer at Money Magazine and Lauren Willis. Lauren…
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The Carnival of Personal Finance #168
One Caveman’s Financial Journey is hosting the Labor Day edition of The Carnival of Personal Finance, highlighting the best personal finance articles around (and maybe even a few grilling tips). My recent article on Debit versus Credit, Cash In On The Economy’s Problems, earned “the choice steak” rating as an Editor’s Pick. There are some…
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Get International Clients Sunday Blog Carnival
Happy Sunday everyone! Just a quick heads up to let you know that my post What I Learned In Mexico: Business Negotiation has been featured over at the Get Internation Clients Sunday Blog Carnival. If you haven’t read my post then I encourage you to check it out. Another fantastic post, for those interested in…