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Your Money’s Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections–Taxes

by DR

The next U.S. President will make many decisions with major consequences to your pocket book. From taxes to health care, social security to immigration, and education to retirement, Your Money’s Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections will describe each candidate’s position on these issues, with ample links to further reading. The focus of [...]

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A Simple Approach to Budgeting

by DR

I hate budgeting. I’ve tried using envelopes, Mvelopes, Quicken, and fancy spreadsheets and the results are always the same. I start off strong, but within a few weeks I lose interest in the time-consuming chore that budgeting can be. The problem is that I still need to manage my money. I [...]

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How to Develop the Habit of Spending Less Than You Make

by DR

If I could write just one thing about achieving financial freedom, it would be this–spend less than you make. Like all habits that lead to financial freedom, spending less than you make is simple to understand, but hard to follow. For some reason, we always want more. At times in my life [...]

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Impulse Buying–Letting Our Kids Learn About Money By Making Mistakes

by DR

This past weekend my son had to have a video game. All Sunday afternoon he kept clamoring for one of us to take him to EB Games. Eventually we gave in and off we went to the store with his hard earned money. As fate would have it, the game he wanted [...]

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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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