Archive for August, 2009:

Peer To Peer Lending: Lend Money And Invest

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Categories : The Digerati Life
A while back, I covered the world of social lending, when I was relatively new to the whole peer to peer lending premise. Now that I’ve become much more familiar with it, and have had some time to see ...Read More »

How to Benefit from Credit Card Balance Transfer Offers

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Categories : Credit Card
Financial surveys show that months with holiday seasons are times when most try to apply for credit cards. It is also after the holidays that credit card charges soar at the highest. In response to this marketing trend, credit card ...Read More »

Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs – Ranked By Traffic

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Categories : FIRE Finance
[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Note: Please do not be misguided by this post's date i.e. Sep 2007. We've published Aug 2009's rankings at the same url as Sep 2007's rankings. This will benefit those ...Read More »

Seven Tempting Places – And Eight Ways to Minimize Their Impact

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Categories : The Simple Dollar
I’m often tempted to spend money that I shouldn’t. I’m good at restraining my impulsive nature. I don’t simply go into stores and then emerge later with a hefty bag, a credit card bill, and a dazed look on my ...Read More »

Always Do the Math

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Categories : Free Money Finance
We recently joined a very nice local pool (near our home, at an area high school, Olympic-sized pool with a smaller, warm-water pool too, inside, etc.) We had been going there quite a bit over a two-week period (at $6.50 ...Read More »

Antitrust Through the Lens of Marginal Revolution

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Categories : EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty
(August 31, 2009 10:09 AM, by Bryan Caplan) Marginal Revolution premiered six years and tens days ago.  Alex and Tyler may not have been the very first academic economists to start blogging, but they still got in at the ground ...Read More »

Greg Mankiw’s Problem

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Categories : EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty
(August 31, 2009 09:58 AM, by Arnold Kling) No, it's not that he's going to get fired by Harvard for casually invoking the Great Unmentionable to explain intergenerational income correlations. It's that he is teaching a seminar at Harvard for ...Read More »

Walgreens: More money-makers and deals

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Categories : Money Saving Mom
The deals at Walgreens just keep on coming! Here are a few more worth mentioning for this week:Buy 2 Glade Fragrance Collection Candles (2 oz.) at $2 each, Get a $1 Register RewardUse 2 Free candle coupons from the ...Read More »

Seek first the Kingdom of God and then…

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Categories : Christian Personal Finance
I was reading in Jeremiah this morning and stumbled on this verse… "For the shepherds have become stupid and have not sought the LORD; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered." Jeremiah 10:21(NASB) It kinda hit me, because ...Read More »

Some Morning Links

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Categories : EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty
(August 31, 2009 08:47 AM, by Arnold Kling) Profit from bank bailouts--so far. The profits come from banks that have paid back the government, and recall that some banks were forced to take bailout funds in the first place. We ...Read More »
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