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One of the reasons why I loved the recession is the creativity of small business owners to get customers coming through the door and filling the empty seats.
This clever idea, from a sports bar owner in Boston, is actually selling season tickets to watch the Red Sox… on television in …

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Being a student of social anthropology, I always find generational studies particularly interesting because they ask wide array of behavioral, economic, and big picture questions that have a fairly good chance of impacting the future path of a country.
This demographic profile, from the Pew Center on the American Millennial generation …

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I fully admit I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m of the opinion that there are far too many ways to tell people to follow you, tell people to read your stuff, or cutesy little buttons to tell people they should read what you just read.
Of course, …

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I’m convinced that Valentine’s Day is a complete ripoff. It’s a poorly disguised, marketing intense holiday to make fools like me feel guilty if I don’t buy my girlfriend a dozen ridiculously overpriced roses or a lame pint-sized teddy bear to show her — each year of course — that …

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In true self-deprecating humor fashion, I often insinuate that I created this blog just for fun or a way of venting all of the financial knowledge I’ve collected over the last 15 years so it doesn’t erase some important memories from my childhood. After all, I’ve invested a lot of …

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I haven’t posted a Best Reads article in some time due to the monster snowstorm that knocked out power and web access subsequently throwing a monkey wrench in my schedule, as well as the chaos revolving around the holiday season, so it’s time to highlight a few posts from around …

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Sorry for the delay in posts everyone.
With the severity of the snowstorm that hit Virginia prior to the Christmas holiday, we lost electricity for 3 days, Internet connectivity for 5 days and we’re entering day #2 of the water shortage.
I’m still trying to catch up with a backlog of hundreds …

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With my least favorite holiday behind us and my favorite holiday around three weeks away, I think it’s time to start discussing some new and clever ways to save a few bucks on Christmas gifts. I’m all about bargain hunting, but loath shopping, so I’ve been looking for novel ways …

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When one of the best commodities traders around (Dennis Gartman) tells you that gold is going higher, but also warns that gold bubble has formed, then it’s time to hold on for a wild ride. Which is why I keep saying that traders know it’s a bubble, and that gold …

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The last time the unemployment rate was this high, I was seven years old. I don’t remember much about the 15% mortgage rates or people buying gold coins in mass out of fear of inflation, but I do remember the speeches that I heard about the benefits of working for …

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SF will be undergoing maintenance on October 29th during the evening hours. New theme changes, reorganization, etc.
Pardon the mess and confusion.
Related Posts Buying an Investment Property in a College Town. Financial Planning 101: What To Do with Sudden or Unexpected Cash? …

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This year, I got a chance to play my first season of fantasy baseball. Like most rookies in their first year… I got my ass handed to me.
To be completely honest, I really didn’t have a clue what was going on until halfway through the season. And since I …