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The highest paying dividend stocks will help you weather double-digit inflation much better even than real return bonds will. Just be sure to do a further check for (1) how safe the dividend yield is and (2) whether the stock also frequently raises its dividend. No point owning a dividend stock long term if it [...]
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For you, the question isn’t about renting vs. buying. It’s about whether you should stay where you are despite its problems, or gather up the money and energy to make another move. So how do you decide if it’s worth it to move, when you don’t absolutely have to?
Let’s say your current apartment is ok, [...]
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It’s a good time to draw up some financial New Year’s resolutions if you haven’t yet. Sure – don’t call them New Year’s resolutions if you don’t want to – it’s a financial plan for 2010 that I’m really talking about.
Although we are still in the thick of the holiday season, take a quiet day [...]
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Congratulations on opting for a minimalist Christmas, or at least thinking about how to have a clutter-free Christmas. If you’re like me and appreciate minimalism, but you also love giving gifts – you just need to find a way to buy or make gifts that don’t sit around and collect dust for the next three [...]
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We hear enough about reasons why it might be good to do a graduate degree. Heck, we don’t even need to hear the reasons anymore because they are so ingrained in the discourse of college and early career-building phases themselves.
But how often do you see meetings, books, or announcements about the reasons you should not [...]
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Someone once said that wealth is what you’ve got left even after you’ve lost all your money.
In today’s business terms, wealth is goodwill; the invaluable resource that remains on the books despite what the rest of the balance sheets say. In social media, it is your reputation – or even the “personal brand equity” [...]
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This is a fun problem I’ve thought about in the past, though never specifically with regard to money. With the recent personal finance bloggers’ weight loss challenge I’m participating in, though, I thought it made sense to try to integrate it with money management.
I once went on a very strict no-sugar diet (no sweeteners, no [...]
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