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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

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There are many reasons for this, but chief amongst them are the facts that you need a credit card to do anything online, and you also should have one in order to begin building a credit rating. Real Estate. There may be a few ways to do that… Retirement. FMF presents Is Early Semi Retirement Really All That Great?

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

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Dividend Growth Investor presents Build your own Berkshire with dividend paying stocks posted at Dividend Growth Investor , saying, “Buffett’s strategy of using Berkshire’s cash to purchase more businesses is similar to what dividend growth investors like to do. MR presents Is Now The Time To Buy Real Estate?

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #241 – June 15, 2012

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These technologies were omitted in building the skyscraper of cards (“house of cards” seems too mild) out of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), credit default swaps (CDSs), synthetic collateralized debt obligations (SCDOs), and the rest.” ” That concludes this edition.

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