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Personal Finance Links- End of Summer Edition

September 21, 2009

Summer is wrapping up, and hopefully we’ll get some nice cool weather down south pretty soon. Fall is my favorite season of the year (it may also have something to do with football!), so I can’t wait! It has been a while since I posted some links to some of the great personal finance posts [...]

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10 Ways To Develop a Saving Habit

September 17, 2009

Saving Money Saving money, is one of those things that most people, even if they are saving a decent percentage of their income, would probably like to do a little better at. Money is just one of those things where it is hard to feel that you have too much of it. Maybe Bill Gates [...]

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Obama Announces Initiative to Increase Retirement Savings Rate

September 7, 2009

President Barack Obama announced a new initiative on Saturday, geared towards helping citizens increase their retirement savings and the overall savings rate, which had hovered around zero for several years preceding the recession . “The fact is, even before this recession hit, the savings rate was essentially zero, while borrowing had risen and credit card [...]

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Get 20 Free Stock Trades When You Sign Up With Zecco

September 2, 2009

Zecco Trading, an online discount stock brokerage, is offering 20 free trades for new customers opening an account by Sunday, September 13th, 2009. (Trades are normally only $4.50, or free if you have an account balance of $25,000 or more or make 20 trades or more per month.) Unlike a lot of other free trade [...]

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7 Simple Ways to Save Money on Bills

August 30, 2009

No one likes to pay bills, I know I don’t. Part of this may be psychological- paying for things such as utilities or cable once a month in a big chunk doesn’t translate into the time we spend using the service. Sometimes paying bills becomes routine, however, and we don’t realize there is a possibility [...]

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Cash for Refrigerators or Cash for Appliances Rebate Program Coming- Is This a Little Too Much?

August 24, 2009

A $300 million dollar rebate program for buying energy efficient appliances such as refrigerators, dishwashers, and washing machines, similar to the highly popular Cash for Clunkers Program, is coming soon, according to an article last Friday on BusinessWeek. Starting later this fall, the program will offer rebates of $50 to $200 on energy efficient appliances. [...]

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