Archive for July, 2008
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Get Rich, Stay Rich, Pass It On: A Mini Review
Catherine S. McBreen and George H. Walper Jr.’s book may be misleading
Every now and again, publishers sense me books to read. More often than not it takes me a long time to read them. I was sent Get Rich, Stay Rich, Pass It On: The Wealth-Accumulation Secrets of America’s Richest Families in [...] -
Free Credit Scores from Credit Karma
Free credit scores are hard to find
If you are looking for free credit scores, look no further. Free credit reports have been around for some time. You can get three reports a year by going to Annual Credit Report. Be very careful not to go to other sites, because they usually [...] -
Beauty Holding: Investing in Models?
Buying Shares of Models Gives Your Portfolio’s “Asset Allocation” a Whole New Meaning
Each week, 5-10 companies write me to ask if I would review their site. 99% of the time, I take a quick and little that I would like to feature as a story. This past weekend, one company put themselves [...] -
Prosper Borrowers: Buy My Endorsement For A Better Loan Rate
Note to Reader: I intended the following to be a piece of satire in the same idea of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Since I’ve written about 17 million words being a Prosper “fan boy”, I thought it would be fairly obvious that I wouldn’t hurt the marketplace by actually selling my endorsement. [...]
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Weekend Links – Late Disneyland Edition
These links are coming out a little later than usual. I had some Internet issues earlier today and spent essentially the whole weekend at Disneyland. I’ve got a big review coming up in a week or two. For now, let’s go with the links:
Links from the Money Writers:Tax savings: how to [...]
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Credit Cards as a Money Tool
Much of America has is in debt. Sometimes it’s good debt and other times it’s bad debt. I wrote about good debt vs. bad debt last week. Credit cards that you don’t pay off are an example of bad debt. Many of them charge upwards of 20% interest. For that [...]
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Is There a Cure for the Economy? The Spending and Saving Catch-22
If you read personal finance blogs or magazines you’ll find a lot of advice to save money, get out of debt, and build an emergency fund. This is all solid advice and things that I fully endorse on Lazy Man and Money. It makes too much sense to stretch your dollar further [...]
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Does America Need to Wake Up Financially?
I might not have mentioned it, but I’m in Los Angeles this week, staying at a swanky hotel called The Omni. (I’ll tell you more about it after my stay, but it’s essentially free.) They dropped off a copy of USA Today yesterday and for the first in months, I read a [...]
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Will Luggage America be Evil?
This post is very much a rant. If you don’t like reading rants, and I don’t blame you, it may be wise to move on to the next article.
Last month, I went on vacation. My cheap luggage from 1996 died and I bought a replacement – an American Airline branded set from Luggage [...] -
Finance 101: Good Debt vs. Bad Debt
I’m amazed by the number of people who seem to be against debt. Debt has become has a problem in America, but I think too many people clump the good with the bad. To the people that don’t like debt, would you take a million dollar loan at 1% interest? I [...]
