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Wall Street Journal Sunday: Bloggers Put the Personal in Personal Finance Sites

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By Andrew Blackman July 17, 2005 Blogs are not just about diaries and gossip. Amid the political rants and cat photos lurks some solid personal-finance information. The challenge is sifting through it all. Here’s how to find personal finance blogs, what you can glean from them, and how to make sure you don’t follow bad ... Continue reading this article…

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Doobie Reviews the Equaline Matrix Razor

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I’d probably grow a beard if my girlfriend let me. She obviously has way more sense than I do. I have been brainwashed into the general consumer thinking that I need a major brand razor with expensive refillable blades. Thus, I shave with a Gillette Mach3. Doobie has found a lesser-known razor that he feels ... Continue reading this article…

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The Last 401(k) Guide You’ll Ever Need, Five Tips, Part 2

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Money Magazine is presenting five tips for building a great 401(k) account. Their first suggestion was to save early and save often by diverting as much as possible directly from your salary to your retirement account. Here’s the next tip. Spread Your Money Around What you must do, though, is choose a suitable combination of ... Continue reading this article…

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Sorry For The Downtime

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If you tried to access Consumerism Commentary today but couldn’t get through, I apologize. This site — and many of my websites sites hosted at DreamHost — are having server problems. Part of the problem is being bombarded with spam comments, in some cases a thousand per hour. While they don’t get published, they get ... Continue reading this article…

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Benefits of Dividends

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Jeremy Siegel talks about the virtues of owning dividend-paying stocks in a bear market. Those dividends (if reinvested) buy more and more stock as a company’s stock price declines. When the stock price rebounds, those extra shares-from-dividends act as “return accelerators,” leaving you in a much better position than where you started, even if the ... Continue reading this article…

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Quick Guide to Asset Allocation

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Rex Moore from The Motley Fool has posted Four Rules for Asset Allocation. It’s a quick general overview of where you should keep or invest money based on when the funds will eventually be needed. Rule No. 1: If you need the money in the next year, it should be in an interest-bearing savings or ... Continue reading this article…

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Working Environments With High Health Risk

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I had a frustrating morning with one of my bosses today. It was the kind of encounter where you have to get up and walk away for a few minutes to refocus. I stool in an empty conference room for some time, talking myself down from my crazy thoughts such as quitting before I had ... Continue reading this article…

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CitiBank Strikes Again

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About a week ago, I linked my CitiBank Platinum Dividend Rewards credit card to my ING Direct account with the intent of keeping more of my cash in an interest-bearing account. I knew from the last time I made a change to my CitiBank card, I had to wait some time before paying my bill ... Continue reading this article…

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