On Friday I took a hike with a group of co-workers to the top of the 14,265 foot Quandary Peak. The hike was challenging, but all 61 of my group made it to the top. The view was astounding. The mountain was exhausting. Reaching the summit was rewarding. After fighting through the headache and dehydration […]
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Over the last year or so, we have seen real estate prices fall like we could never have imagined. Many experts believe that residential real estate is just the beginning, and that commercial will start to go into crisis mode in the near future. What are we to do now? I like to think of
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I was on the phone a few days ago with a friend who just started a new job at a big computer company. This friend is a smart girl. She has a college degree. She knows she should be investing for retirement. In our conversation, it came out that she has not set up her
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While we are still in a recession, the recession seems to be getting less bad. As a Wall Street fund manager told me today, it might go down in history as “the great recession.” As we all know, this recession has pushed down housing prices around the world. It looks like the worst might be
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One of my banks closed my credit card due to inactivity and having “no banking relationship” beyond the card. When I got the letter in the mail, I started to think: is this even legal? Can the bank close my card for not doing anything wrong?
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have given Thrive a test run and decided to put a review of my thoughts of the Mint vs. Thrive battle here. Mint and Thrive both give similar aggregation services to users, though each one has a slightly different emphasis and a different front end.
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