* It’s 2015 now and the bull market rages on! If you were to ask me at the beginning of the year whether I’d accept a 11% return on my overall stock portfolio I would emphatically say, “HELL YES!”. Thanks to fantastic first quarter earnings, the Dow Jones is up 11% and the S&P 500 […]
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Not sure where people are getting the idea that there’s such a thing called passive income, because there really isn’t. The only thing I can imagine as truly passive income is if one inherits a bunch of money, buys some CDs and lives off the interest. That is legitimate passive income, everything else is not. […]
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The following is a a guest post from Yakezie Writing Contest runner-up Katharine Rudzitis. Katharine is faced with an incredibly difficult decision: attend a prestigious university and go tens of thousands of dollars into debt, or attend a lesser known university, but get a full-ride. There is a raging debate going on about a bubble […]
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No matter what organization you join, there will be times of disappointment and frustration. At work for example, you might wonder why one person is getting paid the same amount as you when you feel like you are doing all the work. Worse yet, you might wonder how that person ever got promoted ahead of […]
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What’s the best thing about the times we live in? We have more opportunities than ever for making money and you can do it sitting on your couch! Think about it, Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett had to wade through pages and pages of company reports to pick stocks but today anyone, not just the […]
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As I was reading Yakezie Member posts months ago, I realized that many started off like myself as bloggers looking towards reaching a personal goal. Some of us saw blogging as an opportunity to get more educated on our finances and take responsibility for our futures. Along the way, we noticed that it also became a legitimate and alternative source of […]
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From an early age, I learned and took pride in saving. I tried to squeeze everything I could out of every penny, sometimes to a fault. When we were teenagers, I was left in charge of some spending money between my brother and me while my parents went away for vacation for a few weeks. […]
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Life is competitive. There is no dearth of people looking to go toe-to-toe with you in battle. From getting into college, to starting your own company, to wooing that boy or girl, nothing good comes easy! Conversely, a lot of bad comes easily because you let people crap all over you. Don’t let that happen. […]
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