Imagine this – for a day, you are one of the luckiest people in the world. For the small cost of a $10 scratch off lottery ticket, you win $1 million dollars. The sun is brighter, the birds sing louder, and the world is a happier place. Then disaster happens. It all gets taken away [...]
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This video shows an ATM scam in which a thief reprogrammed an ATM to dispense four times the normal amount of money requested. The ATM machine was programmed to “think” it had been filled with $5 bills, not $20 bills. Nine days passed from the time the ATM was reprogrammed until the theft was discovered. [...]
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I don’t know about you, but I have one room in my house that just doesn’t get warm in the winter and it will not get cool in the summer. The room is situated directly above our garage so I think that may play a role. The room is our computer/guest room, so we spend [...]
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My first foray into investing began when I opened an IRA at age 19. I didn’t know anything about stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, so I placed the money into a Money Market Account where I probably earned an astounding 3.0% return on my money. About a year later, I went to a broker who [...]
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100 Minds That Made The Market is an interesting and educational look at some of the most influential men to ever play a role in shaping our nation’s stock markets. Some of these men were geniuses, some were successes and failures, and some were no better than crooks or thieves. But all are interesting. Ken [...]
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The New Year is steadily coming toward us, and I think now is a good time for me to share my financial resolutions for the New Year. Writing my resolution down is a good way for me to remember it, and more importantly, to hold myself accountable over the course of next year. What is [...]
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Winter heating bills are never fun to pay. But when faced with the choice of paying the bill or shivering all winter, I would rather just pay up! However, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t do everything in my power to lower the sticker shock that comes in the mail every month. Inexpensive ways to save [...]
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