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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
–Winston Churchill
Gaining control of your finances and moving toward financial freedom requires motivation. Motivation is [...]

We all want to know how we’re spending our hard-earned dough (or, at least, we should want to know). Budgets are lauded as the ultimate financial tool because they tell us in detail how we’re spending our money. But what about our time? While the cliché that time is money may be [...]

Photo Credit: Wolfgang StaudtWelcome to the Best of January and February 2008. Here you’ll find the best articles, posts, tools, resources and news about money, finance and investing from the past two months.
News and Analysis

Are payday loans actually good for us? An Experimental Analysis of the Demand for [...]

Who wants a $25 bonus? ING Direct is offering a $25 bonus for anybody who opens an online Orange Savings Account with an initial deposit of at least $250. To qualify, all you have to do is use one of the links below to open the account. I would ask that you [...]

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My wife and I recently received a call from a debt collection agency. They didn’t identify who they were in the voice mail or that they were calling to collect a debt. When we called back, some guy said he was with The Northland Group and claimed we owned some [...]

I hate junk mail. So does Green Dimes, a paid service ($20) that claims to stop up to 90% of the junk mail for its members. And as an interesting twist, Green Dimes plants 5 trees for each person who signs up for the service. Here’s how it works (and a DIY [...]

Identity theft is scary. A friend of mine several years ago had his voter registration revoked because the Commonwealth of Virginia thought he was a convicted felon. It turns out that a former roommate of his was the convict, but had given the police my friend’s name and social security number. It [...]

No, I’m not making this up. A new online service claims it will pay you to interview for jobs, on average $300 - $600 per interview. NotchUp is an online company that aims to take the hassle and cost out of placing “top-tier candidates” with employers. And it boasts that it has [...]