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How to Evaluate a Mutual Fund in 60 Seconds Flat

by DR

There are more than 15,000 mutual funds to choose from! Knowing how to wade through this sea of choices can cause the best of us to throw up our hands in despair. The reality is, however, that evaluating a mutual fund is really quite simple. So if you have 60 seconds to [...]

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The Dough Roller Weekly Roundup (26 August 2007)

by DR

Here are some of the best money articles from the past week:

How to Make Money in the Stock Market (Revisited) @ Five Cent Nickel: This is a great historical perspective on the stock market and how holding tight during a falling market can reap rich rewards.
The Best Kept Secret for Avoiding Debt @ Cheufong.com: [...]

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Miles Levin Remembered

by DR

The blogging community lost a good soul this past Sunday. His name was Miles Levin. He was six days shy of his 19th birthday. He started blogging in 2005 and talked about his battle with a pediatric cancer called alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer that strangles the muscle tissues.
A few months ago, recognizing [...]

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When Faith and Business Don’t Mix

by DR

The WSJ yesterday published an article entitled, Mortgage Woes Take Toll On Lender With Roots in Faith. The article describes HomeBank Corp., a mortgage company that frequently opened meetings with prayer and every branch kept a chaplain on call. Training classes were required of all new employees, who had to promise the company [...]

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Housing Down Until 2009 and Prime Borrowers Struggling to Pay

by DR

This week two housing items were released that bode well for buyers, but not so well for sellers. The first is that the CEO of Countrywide Financial believes that a housing rebound won’t surface until at least 2009. The second is that delinquencies by prime borrowers (yes, prime) on second lien loans (e.g., [...]

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AT&T Activated Just 146,000 iPhones During First Two Days of Sales

by DR

AT&T reported that it activated just 146,000 iPhones during the first two days of sales. Analysts had estimated that AT&T would activate between 500,000 and 700,000 on the first weekend. Apple’s shares tumbled 6% during after-hours trading. Apparently, the 354,000 to 554,000 folks who didn’t buy an iPhone the first weekend it [...]

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$54 Million And The Pantsless Plaintiff–Whose to Blame?

by DR

This is a story about a man seeking a pound of flesh. If you haven’t heard, on Monday a judge threw out a lawsuit seeking $54 million for a pair of pants that a dry cleaners lost. To make matters worse, the pantsless plaintiff is an Administrative Law Judge. Now, in all [...]

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Can PF Bloggers Share Too Much?

by DR

I ran across an interesting post today at Consumerism Commentary called Wall Street Journal: Managing Money in Public. The post is about a Wall Street Journal article describing the trend of twentysomethings sharing their personal finance information online. I recommend the article, which includes a number of links to sites that enable [...]

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