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Financial Tips for those Going Through a Divorce
Club Thrifty – Stop spending. Start living.When shit gets real…..
Yup, it happens.  As much as it sucks, married people occasionally decide that they hate each other.  Some people grow apart and others just want to move on to greener pastures.  Regardless, going through a divorce can be a stressful experience…

If you’ve spent any time at all reading personal finance information, you’ve probably heard that ‘you can’t beat the market’.  (That is, be able to obtain a higher return, after expenses, by actively trading than by investing in an index fund.)  After all, the argument has been made (including by me), most professional investors running actively managed mutual funds and hedge funds can’t beat the market…

We all are trying to stay out of debt. There are just some financial mishaps in our lives that prevent us from doing so. We are either ignoring our financial responsibilities or keep track of them badly. Here are 4 common financial mistakes to avoid in day to day life. Going To Fast Food Restaurants …

Many of us have dealt with paying off debt in one form or fashion; whether it be credit card debt or student loan debt, few of us are untouched by debt. While I consider a mortgage debt as well, I really am excluding that from this post as the benefits of owning a house can be significant. The kind of debt I am talking about is consumer debt…

Here are some of my recent payments.
Yup, you just read that correctly. My student loans are gone. Donezo. Eliminated. Demolished. Any other word that you can think of. It seems like just a couple of months ago I published my post about my $38,000 in student loans and how badly I want them gone.
I have made a decent amount of recent payments and have watched our savings account dwindle down to a very low and uncomfortable number (still livable though)…

The other day a friend and I were talking about weddings. Without really meaning to, we got into a long discussion about how ridiculous weddings have become. I mean seriously weddings have turned into week long “events”. Gone are the days when you can throw a basic little party in your parents’ backyard…

In today’s society, people know more about what they should do in the event of a zombie apocalypse than they know about what they should do when they go to the voting booth on Election Day. With shows like The Walking Dead and movies like World War Z, Zombieland, and 28 Days Later popping up left and right, it’s really not much of surprise, though…

Debt Payment (Photo credit: Images_of_Money)
After today’s brush with small claims court over an old hospital bill, I started to think about the nature of bills and debts. At what point does something cross the line from a bill to a debt? Are all bills a form of debt?
Wikipedia defines a bill as a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer, indicating the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller has provided the buyer while a debt is an obligation owed by one party (the debtor) to a second party, the creditor…

Emerson Electric (EMR) is an industrial conglomerate operating in five primary business segments: Process Management (31% of sales), Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions. The company generated about 45% of revenues in the U.S. and Canada during F2012, with another 24% from Asia, 20% from Europe, 6% from Latin America, and the remainder from the Middle East and Africa…

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For most American retirees, Social Security is a huge part of the retirement equation. In fact, a recent New York Times article notes that even retirees with a $1 million nest egg rely heavily on Social Security income during retirement.
Even though Social Security is so important, most of us still don’t understand exactly how the benefit works…

It’s hard to believe that summer is already here, and I can’t be the only one to notice that everyone’s Facebook accounts are full of vacation pictures and all around summer fun.
If you feel left out or like you can’t afford a vacation this summer, think again. There are so many ways that you can cut costs so that you can have a nice relaxing time too without breaking the bank…

# 1  Good jobs number (kind of) = your bonds continue to explode
The News – What is everyone talking about?

US employers added more jobs in June than economists expected (195,000 vs 165,000).

But about 70 percent of all jobs added in June were for the lowest paying jobs, mostly in leisure and hospitality…