I can’t believe I haven’t written about my relatively new financial crush hero, well luckily he is back in the news so I have a chance to write about him now. I can tell you while I respect the standard people that are usually named, but this guy encompasses my goal and is completely unfiltered in expressing his…
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I think it is because I completely romanticize the idea of a credit union. I imagine walking into the bank and being known by the employees. I imagine asking for a car loan or mortgage and practically have the best rate in the country shoved in my face. I imagine savings/CDs rates that are double…
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I religiously check out all the blogs on my blogroll and today I came across an article that really caught my attention by Crystal who writes over at Budgeting in The Fun Stuff. It wasn’t a breakthrough in Personal Finance or a new tax code, rather it was her post holding herself accountable to her…
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Early last month I learned that due to employer constraints I was going to be forced to alter my beloved perpetual income machine, which was essentially a dividend investment account. The point of the machine was to find undervalued (defined below) stocks which were part of the Dividend Aristocrat Index, a stock index which tracks…
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Usually I combine my net worth updates with some sort small complaint I have, but June was an amazing month for me both personally and financially. In June 2011: My son was Baptized The Wife turned 31 The Wife and I had our 3 year anniversary Paid off my Auto Loan (one of my objectives…
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Evan on
June 23, 2011 in
Debt
I can’t believe it has been 19 months since I last determined how much interest I pay to financing companies! I remember how I felt when I wrote that post, while I understood how amortization loans worked and that financing costs were inevitable it wasn’t until I did the actual calculations that I found how…
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