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If you have personal finance questions that you have been wanting to ask, today’s your chance. Kiplinger’s Jump-Start Your Retirement Plan Days in conjunction with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) will be answering anybody’s personal finance questions for free from 9 a.m. until 6 pm. eastern time on Friday, January 27 - […]

Looking for some entertaining reading this week, check out the Business2 101 Dumbest Moments In Business - makes you wonder why you aren’t getting paid big bucks to run a company because you surely could not do worse than some of the moments mentioned…
Grand Prize Winner, Dumbest Moment of 2005 - Bubble Trouble
“If you grew […]

In the last challenge we talked about contributing to your 401(k) plan to get the matching funds. Unfortunately, some people don’t have access to a 401(k) fund or their company doesn’t match any contributions to the 401(k) fund. If this happens to be the case, then for most it’s time to move onto the next […]

According to a new ACNielson survey, people in the US are the most cash strapped people in the world with 22% saying they have no money left after they have paid for their essential living expenses. This ties the US for number one with Portugal.

While the numbers are nothing to smile about, there are a […]

For those who were affected
by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and
Wilma, the IRS has released a
new publication - Publication
4492 (Information for
Taxpayers Affected by Hurricanes
Katrina, Rita, and Wilma) -
which is now available on the
IRS website. Paper copies will
be available in about two weeks.
This publication lists the disaster
areas for each hurricane and
explains which areas […]

NOTE: The entire challenge series is what I would do with my money and is merely my opinion. You should do thorough research and seek professional advice and decide to do what is best for you. My Disclaimer
Welcome to the second week of the Financial Challenge. While we spent some time last week looking how […]

I found this interesting data at usatoday:
More than nine in 10 investors say they would choose a financial services company with strong ethics; just 5% prefer higher returns

This is a classic case where people say what they think they should rather than the truth. Please don’t get me wrong. I’m sure that there are a […]

I was informed with our annual car check that our car needed new tires. I went and looked at them and they appeared to be perfectly fine to me. We don’t drive that much and have maybe put 10,000 miles on them (and that is probably stretching it). When I asked why we needed new […]

An interesting article at msn on why young families are broke:
In case you haven’t figured it out, the reason you always feel broke is that you are married, with children.
It’s that simple.
Yes, you probably put too much on your Visa bill. And, yes, it’s incriminating that you know the exact price of a Starbucks Grande […]