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Welcome to the Best of March 2008. Here you’ll find the best articles, posts, tools, resources and news about money, finance and investing from the past month.
News & Analysis
New five dollar bill put into circulationThe new five dollar bill entered circulation on March 13 ,2008.
Opensecrets.orgA guide to the money in U.S. elections. Want to [...]
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A reader recently brought a website to my attention and asked what I thought of it as a money management tool. The site is called PriceAmbush, and it purports to allow you to search the Internet for the best deals on stuff. But I have very mixed feelings about this site. First, [...]
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Yesterday MSN Money featured my article on Slow Motion Retirement. It was linked on the front page of MSN, and generated a lot of visitors to this site. I want to thank the folks at MSN, who have been wonderful to work with over the past few weeks. In addition, MSN’s Smart [...]
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This past week has been very exciting around here. On Wednesday The Dough Roller became a partner blog of MSN’s Smart Spending Money Blog. Each week you’ll be able to see one of my articles over at Smart Spending. This past Wednesday they published Stop Frittering Away the Fruits of Your Frugality. [...]
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I enjoy playing games of strategy. Chess is one of them, and so is The Settlers of Catan. The Settlers of Catan is a great way to teach children about strategy, negotiating, planning, risk taking and so on. We played Settlers last night with friends until midnight. Lots of fun! [...]
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I’m off to Boston this weekend for my 15th college reunion. While I’m gone, I thought I’d leave you with links to some great articles over the past week.
Blogosphere
Will Consumers Warm Up to The Credit Freeze Laws? @ Grad Money Matters
What My Dad Taught Me About Money @ Rather Be Shopping
Uncover the Truth About [...]
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Many years ago I was a buyer for a large pharmaceutical company. My boss had worked at the company for many years, and was a man of great experience. As he taught me to negotiate contracts, he constantly reminded me of this one eternal truth–read the fine print. As he put it, [...]
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The Frugal Law Student (I wish I was frugal when I was in law school) has posted the 84th Festival of Frugality for your reading pleasure. My article about the rented Nikon lens I used in Guatemala was included in the carnival–thanks, FLS! There were a lot of great articles submitted, and here [...]
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Check out the pictures I took with this lens.
It happens every time we go on vacation. I plan on buying some high quality lenses for my Nikon D70, which are as impressive as they are expensive. As we get closer to the vacation, however, I get cold feet because of the price tag. [...]
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