In case you hadn’t heard, the newest versions of the Quicken Personal Finance Softwares are now available. As an affiliate of Quicken, I get the ability to offer you a discount on several of their titles.
Quicken 2009 Deluxe gets a 25% discount. That takes it down to $44.99 instead of $59.99
Quicken 2009 Premier gets a [...]
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Emigrant Bank announced their newest high yield savings account today. Called the Dollar Savings Direct account, it will pay out what they claim to be an industry high 3.75% on all balances over $1000. I believe that there is at least one account that pays higher than 3.75% and the WaMu account is paying out [...]
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The $752 million dollar Columbian Bank and Trust of Topeka was shut down on Friday. It became the ninth such bank closure this year. Compared to only 3 closures in 2007, that seems like an awful lot of closures. But, should we be worried?
Not really. With the implementation of the FDIC and NCUA, the Government [...]
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One of the most important parts of paying off your debt and becoming financially independent is creating a budget. At the very least it gives you an outline of where your money goes and where it should go. At it’s most extreme, it serves to create strict limits for your spending. How lax or strictly [...]
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Today, I requested and received the addition of this blog to the PFBlogs.org blogroll. PfBlogs.org is the premier personal finance blog aggregator. I am very proud to have Beating Broke as a member of the blogroll and look forward to many years of contribution and interation with the personal finance community.
If you haven’t, you should [...]
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Your primary home is not an investment in the normal sense of the word. Dictionary.com defines Investment thusly*: “the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.” Some of you will argue that you buy your house because it will appreciate in value. But, to [...]
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If you really want to over simplify things, you can choose a online savings account by no other requirements than the interest rate that the account is paying out. If that’s all you care about, then the current high yield king is WaMu with 3.75% (current as of 8/5/08). The rest fall behind, but most [...]
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One thing that you see plenty of people pushing is the information products that tell you how you can get all this money from the government for free. Free! Did you hear that? Free! (I couldn’t help myself.)
Between Kevin Trudeau and his Debt Cures and Mathew Lesko and his question mark-y free money omnibus, consumers [...]
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