Category Archives: personal finance

Elizabeth Warren on Financial Sector Regulation

A conversation with Harvard’s Elizabeth Warren.
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Monday Links Do The Twist

Enough links to keep anybody happy for at least an hour.
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How to Buy a Less Volatile Stock Market

If you want to invest in the stock market, but you are worried about the size of your potential losses, this could be a smart way to go.
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Paying Your Mortgage With an Amex Card

Put your mortgage
payments on your Amex card
!
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Competitiveness and Mortgages: The WSJ Chimes In

The Wall Street Journal’s columnists have clearly reading the same things that
I have been over the past few days. Alan
Murray
today picks up on the report
showing that New York is still globally competitive, while Jonathan
Clements
looks at the advisability of having mortgage debt and investments
at
the same time
.
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Adventures in Personal Finance, Part 3: The Poor Single Mother

We’ve already seen that the middle
classes
can have more financial horse-sense than the
rich
. Where do the lower classes fit in? It turns out that they, too, can
be eminently sensible.
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Paying Down the Mortgage vs Investing in the Market

Should I keep my mortgage balance high in order to invest in stocks and bonds?
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Adventures in Personal Finance, Part 2: The Rich Couple

Sometimes the middle classes have a hell of a lot more financial horse-sense
than the rich, even if the financial press doesn’t like to spin it that way.
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Adventures in Personal Finance, Part 1: The Middle-Class Family

Sometimes the middle classes have a hell of a lot more financial horse-sense than the rich, even if the financial press doesn’t like to spin it that way.
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Using Credit Cards Abroad

One of the more annoying of the world’s bank charges is the fee that banks charge you when you make a purchase on your credit card overseas.
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