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Financial Maxims: In Your 40s
May 11, 2009 – 8:05 am | No Comment

Thus far we’ve talked about financial advice for your 20s and 30s. Going into your 40s doesn’t really change the advice from the previous two decades. You should still continue to do ALL of those …

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Weekly Round Up
May 8, 2009 – 10:47 pm | 4 Comments

And so ends another week! It’s been a long couple of weeks for me, what with being sick and having finals. I’m happy to say that I only have one more final to go. Yay! …

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Generational Changes
May 6, 2009 – 9:16 am | 15 Comments

Patrick at Cash Money Life had an interesting post this week about how generations past have been able to afford raising children on one middle-class income, but today’s generations can barely afford to raise a …

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Teaching Personal Finance
May 5, 2009 – 8:10 am | 9 Comments

I had an experience this week that I found infuriating. Working in the banking industry, you get a lot of people who walk in with some preconceived notions that you often wonder where they get …

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Random Update
May 4, 2009 – 2:47 pm | 2 Comments

Hello MYC readers! You may have noticed that I’ve been somewhat absent the last week and I wanted to apologize as I’ve been a bit under the weather and dealing with some personal stuff to …

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Financial Maxims: In Your 30s
May 4, 2009 – 9:02 am | 3 Comments

So last time we talked about the typical financial advice you’d hear in your 20s. That period of your life was really dedicated to change and establishing yourself as an adult. But, when you hit …

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Check Kiting
May 1, 2009 – 8:47 am | 15 Comments

The occurrence of check kiting is becoming more rare, by comparison to other fraud types, as float time between checks gets shorter, but it’s still a problem…one that can cost a financial institution a lot …

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