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The key to escaping living paycheck to paycheck is to not just spend less than you earn, but to save it as well.
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By 7.2.07
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How to claim the interest on your college loan as a tax deduction.
30 Free Personal Finance eBooks
By 7.2.07
Mint has collated a collection of thirty free ebooks on personal finance and money management. The selection ranges from budgets to credit cards to mortgages to general consumer advice. Each one is in PDF format. Check ’em out and get your learn on.
Personal Finance Roundup
By 6.29.07
• The Next China: Five Emerging Markets To Watch [Seeking Alpha] “…countries that offer equally compelling investment prospects but are still off the screens of most investors.”
By 6.28.07
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6 ways to set your budget on auto-pilot and not have to worry about it.
Saving Money Means Sacrifice
By 6.27.07
Get Rich Slowly has a story about “Gillian,” a woman who came asking for advice on setting up a budget so she could save money and stop charging emergency expenses on her credit card, but was unwilling to actually cut her expenses. We found the story hilarious because it seemed so familiar…
Balance Your Budget With iBank (Mac)
By 6.27.07
iBank is a friendly-looking budgeting software program for Mac with a diverse set of robust features.
By 6.27.07
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6 regular people share their tricks for staying on within their spending limits.
Take The 3-Step, 7-Day Money Challenge
By 6.26.07
If you’re trying to get your spending under control, try taking Bankrate’s 7-day budget challenge.
A Lie A Debt Collector Once Told Us
By 6.25.07
One time we had this huge credit card debt that we just let sliiiiiiiiiiide. When we finally owned up to it, the debt collector told us that the credit card company said we could just pay 85% of it if we paid it all at once.
A Simple Guide To Setting And Achieving Life Goals
By 6.25.07
Zen Habits has posted a simple guide to setting and achieving life goals, and we think it’s great. A lot of life goals have a personal finance aspect, and this guide can help you get yourself organized so that you’re not just dreaming of a the day where you have the things you want, you’re actively working towards that future.
How To Do Credit Card Arbitrage
By 6.25.07
“Credit Card Arbitrage” is when you take out a 0% balance transfer check from your credit card use it to make money. Here’s the basic gist of how to do it, and some of its dangers.
7 Common Mental Money Mistakes
By 6.25.07
WSJ round up seven mind games people play that can have them short-changing their personal finances.
Personal Finance Bloggers Say "Maxed Out" Has Non Sufficient Funds
By 6.22.07
We’re not the only ones irked by the Maxed Out documentary.
Reader Shares Personal Financial Security Protocols
By 6.21.07
Reader and security researcher Nweaver has blogged the precautions he takes when managing his personal finances, from credit cards to debit to his brokerage account.
Stop Overdrafting!
By 6.19.07
Our tip box is organized by complaint category. In the “banks” section, email after email starts roughly the same way, “I overdrafted my account and then a series of horrible events ensued.”
Don't Want To Lose Money In The Stock Market? Buy And Hold For 20 Years
By 6.18.07
The longer you hold stocks, the better your inflation adjusted returns are, AllFinancialMatters demonstrates. For instance, compare the S&P 500 Annual Real Returns from 1926-2006 with a 1-year holding period vs a 20-year in the picture above.
