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3 Signs You’re Ready to Invest in the Stock Market

The stock market is an exciting playground for investors offering a much greater growth potential than bonds and other common short-term investments. Stocks also offer investors great flexibility. You...

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How You Could Be Hurting Your Credit Score

Whether you have applied for a mortgage, auto loan, or a credit card, you know that your credit score is not only the deciding factor of whether you’re approved or not, but also at what interest rate...

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How Start Ups Can Play With Big Business

As a start up, you’re in a different position to traditional, more corporate businesses. You have the laser like focus and flexibility to get your unique idea to the market, you have access to...

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A Go-To Refresher on Swing Stock Trading

Have you wanted to play the stock market, but were you too intimidated to try? Day trading involves plenty of numbers and high risk, while long-term investments can be boring and less profitable....

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Easy Ways to Save Money Starting Now

If saving money were easy, then most would not be living paycheck to paycheck and everyone would have an emergency fund, no credit card debt, and a solid retirement savings.  The truth is, it takes...

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Ways to Take Control of Your Finances

As soon as you started the year to try and make a dent into your credit card debt and start to give your savings a boost, pretty soon it’s December and the year is almost over, making you sit back and...

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Start the Year Off Right With a Boost to Your Credit Score

While interest rates continue to rise, so do home values, so it may be the year where you decide to sell yours and look to move onto the next.  Since the high interest rates are already adding quite a...

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How Much Money Are You Wasting Every Month?

The beginning of a new year always brings upon reflection from the previous, wondering if you are where you wanted to be when you looked ahead from last year.  Whether it was losing a few pounds,...

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You Could Be Hurting Your Credit Score More than You Think

If you were asked what was your credit score, or even not to the number, but whether it was ‘excellent’, ‘good’, or ‘poor’, what would you say?  Chances are you just assume your credit score is...

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Ways to Spend Less on Food

If I were to ask you how much you spend in a month on food would you be able to say?  Well by the time you take last month’s debit or credit card statement and add up all of the charges, you may be...

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Credit Cards: The Pros and Cons

Credit cards have a bad reputation, as least to hear most financial planners tell it. Ironically, U.S. consumers currently hold more than 770 million credit cards in their collective wallets. That’s a...

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The Basics on Budgeting to Help your Finances

For some people who aren’t used to tracking expenses, a budget can be a daunting concept. However, the truth is that budgeting is just a plan that you can use to make sure that you’re not...

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Best Money Moves to Make After Graduating College

Whether you’re headed back to mom and dad’s house for a few months or you’re venturing out into the world on your own, life after college takes some getting used to. As a young adult, you now have...

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How to Start a Successful Catering Business

If you want to start a commercial catering business, then you’ll be glad to know that this is easier than ever to do. If you are a little unsure of the steps that you need to take, then you can find...

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Four Things to Consider Before Investing in Rental Property

Are you thinking about purchasing a rental property? Being a landlord comes with numerous benefits—including the chance to enjoy monthly reoccurring income from tenant payments and the ability to...

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Do Teenagers Cost More Money?

Raising children is not cheap, which is why you need to have some sort of financial stability before you start planning your family. The expenses increase as children start growing up. The relation...

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Tips to Eliminate the Stress from your Cash Plan

Want to know the secret to being financially independent? All you need to do is spend less than you earn. On the surface, that sounds simple enough. You keep an eye on the amount of money that you...

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What the Coronavirus Teaches us about Personal Finance

The Wuhan virus, the Chinese coronavirus, COVID19, it has many names. None of that matters in the face of the impact it has had. International travel has stalled. Many people were locked into their...

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How To Protect Elderly Parents From Scammers

In most scams, the elderly are targeted more often than other age groups and tend to fall victim more often too. Why are the Elderly Targets for Scammers? Scammers target the elderly because they are...

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How To Avoid Constant Doctor Visits (Saving You Money In The Process)

Everyone knows that medical bills and doctor’s visits can take a toll on our wallets. Even a routine visit can cost a good amount of money, even with insurance. Let’s not even get started on surgeries,...

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