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Proposal: A Formula for Your Personal Human Capital

by Luke Landes
Human capital formula

Calculating your net worth is easy. First find the value of all your assets, including your bank accounts, cash lying around the house, investments, and major assets like real property. Next find the value of all your liabilities, including loans, credit card balances, bills you have to pay soon. Subtract the liabilities value from the ... Continue reading this article…

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Moving Assets Into a Revocable Living Trust

by Luke Landes
Pennies

To prepare for the idea that someday I may no longer be alive, but also as a matter of general organization, I have created a revocable living trust. The primary benefit of this type of trust is to avoid a hassle for those who may be dealing with my estate after I die. No, I ... Continue reading this article…

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Now Covered By Umbrella Insurance

by Luke Landes
Umbrella insurance

There is nothing that can derail your financial success or path to independence as fast as being held liable for some kind of catastrophic loss without the appropriate level of insurance coverage. Automobile and homeowners insurance (or renter’s insurance) cover only up to a certain amount of your liability if you or your property is ... Continue reading this article…

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How to Adjust to a Global Employment Marketplace

by Luke Landes
Old Globe

Chances are good that there is someone else in the world who can do your job better than you can, who is willing to work a lot harder, who can spend more time on the job, and who will accept a lower salary for the same position. Thus is the inequity in the employment marketplace ... Continue reading this article…

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Should Public Employees Go Bowling?

by Luke Landes
Bowling

Whether you’re watching a twenty-four hour news channel, the local news, or national news “magazine” programs like 20/20 and 60 Minutes, the program directors need to be concerned about ratings. Television ratings are everything to those who work in this industry. If you can’t get an audience to watch a program, there are no eyes ... Continue reading this article…

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TurboTax vs. H&R Block: The Battle

by Luke Landes
H&R Block Tax Professional

As the I.R.S. is now accepting federal income tax returns, a war is intensifying. The war is between the major tax preparing companies. Intuit’s TurboTax, with its online and desktop software, and H&R Block, with its storefronts and online software, are the major opponents, and the battlefield is media, and the warriors are their advertising ... Continue reading this article…

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The Wrong Reason To Become An Entrepreneur

by Luke Landes
Cubicle

I don’t have the statistics pertaining to this, but I have a strong impression that many people dream about starting their own business, and many who do have this particular daydream are inspired to consider what this life would be like because they don’t like their boss. Or maybe they don’t like working for someone ... Continue reading this article…

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LastDollar December 2012 Net Worth

by Luke Landes
LastDollar Net Worth

Naked With Cash is the year-long series on Consumerism Commentary where seven readers’ households share their financial progress on a monthly basis. I’ve partnered with financial planners who will offer some guidance along the way. Read this introduction to learn more about the series. LastDollar is thirty-three years old, an entrepreneur and single mom with ... Continue reading this article…

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