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The Dark Side of Placing Your Finances on Autopilot

by DR

Automating finances is a great way to build wealth. Perhaps the best example is setting up automatic contributions to investment accounts. Automatic contributions are standard with 401(k) accounts, but can also be set up in IRAs or taxable investment accounts. David Bach’s bestselling book, The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to [...]

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Raising Quicken Kids

by DR

I’m always looking for ways to raise my kids’ appreciation for money. Recently, we started something that has had positive results–we set up checking and savings accounts for our kids in Quicken. The accounts aren’t linked to actual bank accounts–mom and dad keep the money. We track in the checking accounts all [...]

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103rd Edition of Carnival of Personal Finance

by DR

The 103rd edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance is now available at Clever Dude, which did a great job of hosting the Carnival, especially if you are a 24 fan like I am. The Dough Roller’s post–Don’t Steal from St. Peter– was included in the Carnival, which you can check out here. [...]

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Don’t Steal from St. Peter!

by DR

Last week, FiveCentNickel answered a reader’s question about whether one should cash out a Roth IRA to pay off a mortgage. FCN’s answer was the right one, I believe, and you can read it here. The question is of interest to me because my mom has asked me the same thing. My [...]

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Carnival of Personal Finance #102

by DR

The 102nd edition of Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted this week by Money Smart Life. We’re happy to report that The Dough Roller’s article Inflation’s Bleak Prospects. . .in 1978 was an Editor’s Pick. Thanks, Money Smart Life! Here are the other Editor’s Picks:

The Dirty Secret of Closet Index [...]

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The Daily Dough (1 June 2007)

by DR

The Daily Dough for 1 June 2007:

Home prices are UP!?? Well, that’s what the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) says in a report released yesterday. According to the report, prices are UP 0.5% in the first quarter of 2007 as compared to the first quarter of 2006. The report is [...]

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Five Million Easy Steps to Financial Independence

by DR

This is one of those good news–bad news situations. Which do you want to hear first? Before we get to that, I was in the bookstore yesterday and noticed that there are a lot of “X steps to Financial Freedom” type books. Here are a few that I saw:

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The Morning Dough (May 29, 2007)

by DR

Here’s your morning Dough:

Saving too much for retirement: Apparently, some are saving too much money for retirement, which Walter Updegrave discusses in this article. Is it really possible to save too much for retirement? Wouldn’t too much money simply enable you to retire sooner?
Big drop in home prices predicted: [...]

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Three Important Ways to Calculate Net Worth

by DR

Recently there have been a number of posts in various finance Blogs discussing some important questions about what should and should not be included in calculating net worth. Do you include in the calculation absolutely everything you own down to the last piece of flatware? Do you include your house, and if so, [...]

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