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Current Mortgage Rates: Compare today’s rates | NerdWallet

Savings Corner

Lenders will have a base rate that takes the big stuff into account and gives them some profit. The global economy. Global political worries can move mortgage rates lower. Global political worries can move mortgage rates lower. They adjust that base rate up or down for individual borrowers depending on perceived risk.

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Grandparenthood Can Be Expensive!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In Huffington Post article Boomers Give New Meaning To Spoiling The Grandkids author Linda Stern reported: “Roughly 36 percent of the grandparents surveyed by AARP said “spoiling (grand)children by buying them too much” was a part of a grandparent’s financial role.”. Boomers are becoming grandparents by the second.

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It’s Too Late – But It’s Not For You

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Fracking, trans-national pipelines, and deep-sea drilling, the stopping of wind and solar power plants, and the lack of our political leaders to stand up for us means that the Earth is going to continue to be plundered until there just isn’t anything left. Am I giving up? And that’s exactly what is happening now. Yes, and no.

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Corporate America needs a new story

Couponing 101

  “Give me 20 percent more next year with 20 percent less budget,” is the cry from the boss as he heads to the golf links.    Corporate America had better come up with a new story, one that gives us back our hope, and one that changes the view of Wall Street that it’s all about greed and self-interest. 

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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Let me give you the full story: I have been dating Miss Blinkin for approximately 1 year and 4 months. Without giving too much information, I foresee an engagement in the coming months. Maria presents Politics and economy in the Eurozone part 1 posted at The Money Principle , saying, “The people have spoken in France and Greece.

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