Obama - Show me the Money

Every single day I have a friend, family member or co-worker talking to me about politics/economics.  While, I don’t see myself as above intelligent, I think am able to formulate and communicate an argument (maybe that does make me smarter lol JOKING!).  Well today, I had a very close friend arguing with me above government

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Carnival of Personal Finance – Financial Armageddon Edition

My post titled, “Nursing Home Expenses are Deductible” was chosen for this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, Financial Armageddon Edition, found at Master Your Card.  Here are some choice articles:

Destroy Debt explains the Difference between Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 Bankruptcy HERE.  Great introduction for those that want tax info made simple.  There are also

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To Know Thyself is the Only Way to Overcome You!

Temple of Apollo at Delphi

 

Temple of Apollo at Delphi

I believe that the only way to better one’s self is to be true to thyself.  No matter what the subject, if you are self aware you can compensate short comings or emphasize strengths.  If we are talking sports, if you are aware of your weaknesses you can work on

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Socialism is not a Good Idea Regardless of Angry and Incoherent Comments

A Sexy Beast who Shouldn't be Forgotton during tough financial times

A Sexy Beast who Shouldn't be Forgotten

WARNING POLITICAL RANT – I apologize beforehand this post is nothing more than a political rant.  If you don’t want yet another view, end your reading now, try one of my other posts that are based on facts and tax law and not opinion like this

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Avoid these 5 Financial Mistakes Regardless of intelligence

Linda  Formichelli from CNBC wrote an article, “Five Money Mistakes Even Smart People Make” (found in full HERE) which highlights 5 items that she thinks “even smart people” make mistakes.  I don’t really get the title (other than to get readers – it worked for me), I don’t think intelligence (a term hard to define) correlates with personal

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Carnival of Personal Finance #175

My article, “Stay Away from Seller Financing” was chosen to be featured in Carnival of Personal Finance #175 hosted by J. Money from Budgets are Sexy.  He threw me in the Finance section…but check out the whole carnival here.

Here are some of my favs:

Dan from Everyday Financing talks about his car buying HERE – I

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A Likely and Logical Result - Can be Avoided using the My Journey Budget

I apologize if this post seems like a rant, but I just read a great article on CNBC titled, “Credit Cards Could Become Next Trouble Spot in Crisis” by Kenneth Stier which provides a lot of great info, but seems to completely ignore the underlying problem (beyond a sentance or two).  The Article is best

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Nursing Home Expenses are Deductible

I know we are far from the cultural event known as “tax season” but today, I came accross a great tax deduction I had no idea about.  A Planner came to me today and asked, quite succienctly,

Are Nursing Home Expenses Tax Deductible?

I started with my normal logical reasoning, they are medical expenses but would the

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