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5 Money Saving Strategies to Avoid
We’ve all done it. Spent more than we wanted to all in an effort to get a great deal. With all the offers floating around promising to help you save money, here are 5 to avoid: 1. Buying in bulk. While buying in bulk can be a cost-effective budgeting strategy, often consumers end up buying…
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Market Timing: The Myth
So what is market timing and are you losing returns because your money manager is doing it? Or even worse, have you been caught doing it all on your own. According to Investopedia, market timing is “The act of attempting to predict the future direction of the market, typically through the use of technical indicators…
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Bright Future for Small Businesses
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses represent more than 99 percent of all U.S. employers and have created 65 percent of new jobs in the past 17 years. It’s obvious how incredible their impact is on America’s economy. And it’s only getting bigger. Confidence in U.S. small businesses has climbed to its…
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5 Life Insurance Myths Busted
Life insurance may not sound all that exciting, but when you do stop to think about life insurance and you, it’s not uncommon to assume that since the concept of life insurance is simple enough, so too are the products. It’s also fairly easy to rationalize the things you really don’t understand about life insurance,…
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First Quarter Market Returns
It is often hard to know what the market returns when all we see on TV or the internet is the minute to minute ticker. As investors we need a broader view of how the market has done so we can know if we are getting market returns with our investments. Matson Money does a…
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Equities in the Last 30 Years: A Retrospective
Looking at a chart http://bit.ly/qSHuve covering the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last century is a lot like looking at a chart of profitable business earnings at a cartoon enterprise meeting–it’s almost a caricature of itself, a steady upward slope punctuated by regular but far-between drops, always ending higher than it…
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Should you Buy Gold as an Investment?
We have all seen the advertisements and headlines that keep telling us that investors need to flee to safety and buy gold. They will tell us that the stock market is going to crash worse than last time, and that investors need a hedge to inflation with gold. They will say it with charisma and…
