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Are You Heading for Financial Disaster?

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Like I state on my About page , I was in debt and living a life that didn’t satisfy me. Statistics show that nearly one in two Americans are in serious financial problems due to their debt levels. Also include an emergency fund and contributions to a retirement account, even if just small amounts at first.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Philip from Deliver Away Debt shares his story: How I Delivered Away My Debt. mbhunter from Mighty Bargain Hunter asks Are you contributing to this debt clock? and says, “The big debt clock is over $14 trillion now, but this other one is approaching $1 trillion, and may affect you more directly.&#. How about you?

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Investment Methods

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Technical analysis (chartists). With this, you pick a set dollar amount to invest each period, divide it in half and put half in your chosen investment, and the other half into a money market or bank account. Greenblatt maintains a web site Magicformulainvesting.com. Dad’s plan was even more complicated than that.

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