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Are You Heading for Financial Disaster?

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Also include an emergency fund and contributions to a retirement account, even if just small amounts at first. I also find scheduling payments either online or with a teller at your bank works great at avoiding late fees and added interest. If your budget doesn’t have a savings amount, put one in.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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Tim from How to Make Bankable Savings discusses Buy Versus Rent: Non-Financial Considerations are Ke y The decision to buy or rent your home involves more than a financial analysis. Outlaw from Outlaw Finance presents Fundamental vs. Technical Analysis: A Basic Overview of Investing.

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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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