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August 2009

Today’s Entrepreneur Spotlight is Larry Deane, from Empty Cabin Media, a blog consulting and website design company. Many people know him as Glblguy, the former owner and writer for the personal finance blog, Gather Little By Little (Glblguy was the anonymous name he chose when he started his personal finance website). Larry has been a [...]

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It seems like 2009 will go down as the year of the stimulus, even though individual stimulus checks weren’t sent out to the majority of people in 2009. Instead, Congress passed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in February, which included several other stimulus programs designed to put cash in people’s pockets, extend [...]

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This is a guest post by Kevin, who writes a get out of debt blog at No Debt Plan. He wants to help you get and stay out of debt. This is the second post in a series on unemployment and your finances. In my last article I promised to show you why the income [...]

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New Zecco customers can get 20 free stock trades when they sign up for a new Zecco Trading account before September 13th, 2009. You must use the offer code “bonus1″ to qualify for the free trades (offer code is case sensitive!). TradeKing is also offering a $50 promotion through August 31! 20 Free Stock trades [...]

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“Student” and “credit cards” are words many people don’t like to hear mentioned in the same sentence. It is easy to point out how many students have racked up thousands of dollars in credit card debt and make a blanket statement that students should stay as far away from credit cards as possible. But I [...]

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Most fruit bearing trees have some branches that are low enough that you can reach them from the ground. From there you can pick the “low hanging fruit” and fill your basket with relative ease. This fruit may not be the ripest or best tasting on the tree, but it is the easiest to harvest [...]

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The US Government just released a statement that the Cash for Clunkers Program will end Monday, August 24th, at 8pm EST. So far, the Cash for Clunkers program has used $1.9 billion worth of vouchers and is on pace to use the entire $3 billion pot of money by early September. The Cash for Clunkers [...]

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