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There's nothing worse than getting robbed while on vacation. It can ruin your memories of the trip, not to mention all the time you'll waste getting new paperwork and money.
One of my favorite travel websites, www.independenttraveler.com, offers some excellent tips in the current issue for keeping…
Topics: save money
I've been saying it for years: If you can keep a car for at least 10 years, you'll easily save $100,000 to $200,000 more over your lifetime.
Now, Consumer Reports has weighed in. According to their 2007 Auto Online Survey, "When comparing the costs of buying and keeping a car for 225,000 miles over…
Topics: automobile
For millions of Americans, pay day can't come quickly enough. In fact, many employees run out of cash before the next paycheck is handed over.
Payday lenders have recognized that future profit center and jumped into the void. They will "cash" your future paycheck, at a fairly exorbitant rate of…
Topics: credit card debt
Some financial guru Wade Cook turned out to be.
He was great at making millions -- for himself. Too bad he didn't feel like paying taxes on the cash. He was sentenced in August to 88 months in a federal penitentiary for tax evasion.
There is no way I know of to get-rich-quick. But buy Cook's books…
Topics: scam
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