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Mapping Your Financial Infrastructure (Guest Post)

Today’s guest post has been provided by Alan Perlman. Alan is a travel blogger, and also an economist for a cost-of-living firm based in Cambridge, MA. You can find him online @alanperlman. Mapping your financial infrastructure is a mundane task. It’s not exciting. It’s not likely to save you big bucks. Instead, it’s the sort [...]

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Weekend Goal – Financial Audit

Image by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com via Flickr 12 Steps for Getting your Finances in Order Getting your finances in order is so easy to put off. That’s why every few months, it’s necessary to do a financial audit of yourself. Brush off those dollar cobwebs and get to work! Everyone should take some time out of their [...]

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A review of CreditKarma

Image via Wikipedia I just came across an interesting site called CreditKarma, thanks to a close friend of mine.  It’s been around for a few years, but I hadn’t yet heard about it. It offers to provide you with a quick, easy and FREE credit score, unlike other sites which cost money each time you use [...]

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Don’t be screwed by your credit card

Image via Wikipedia The Wall Street Journal has a pretty revealing article on changes coming to credit cards. Due to the attempts by the Obama administration to cut down on certain credit card shenanigans, the industry as a whole has responded with, guess what, more shenanigans! Read the fine print the next time you sign [...]

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Ummm, what are you doing with Credit Card Debt?

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Credit cards are 1 part genius, 2 parts evil. Credit card companies make their money in 2 ways: 1) They charge stores and merchants for the ability to even accept credit card payments in the first place- between 2% and 5% of every transaction goes through payment processors, payment [...]

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