By MoneyBlueBook Contributor I recently bought a laptop over the Internet. Shopping online, I found a great price and I didn’t have to drive around to different stores to compare products and features. But is it fair that I didn’t have to pay any sales tax because I bought the laptop online? Retailers say the [...]

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By MoneyBlueBook Contributor I have always thought of banks as the bad guys. They charge too much on my credit card balances. They pay too little interest on my savings. And they charge me fees for every little thing. In the last couple of years we even had to endure our tax dollars going to [...]

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By Lisa Tortorello If you are like most people, you probably cringe when it is time to pay the bills. It is a chore almost as dreaded as spending a Saturday afternoon at the post office and dry cleaners. Perhaps the most frustrating and stressful bills to open are those from credit card companies. If [...]

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This is a guest post from Jesse Mecham, founder of You Need a Budget It’s almost that time of year again. I’m not talking about gingerbread houses, cocoa, and caroling; I’m talking about shopping, impulse-buying, digging ourselves into more credit card debt, and raiding our savings accounts. We undoubtedly lose a bit of sanity, self-control, [...]

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By Marcia Passos Duffy Today, when a bank fails people might feel anxiety, but it doesn’t cause the blind panic of the crash of 1929 – when people lined up to pull their money out of banks. Most of us alive today don’t remember – but history books will tell you – that before the [...]

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By Peter Andrew You say tomatoes… Do you think the Federal Reserve should be more like the Bank of England? No, I’m not suggesting it should employ people with funny accents or lose most of its international influence. But perhaps its people could learn something from their opposite numbers in London about plain speaking. The [...]

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This is a guest post from Marc Pearlman. When people ask me if they could be successful at day trading, my first response is, “Do you know what day trading is?” Most people don’t. You might think day trading is about finding the best online brokerage, grabbing a stack of financial reports, arming yourself with [...]

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by Barbara Marquand In the wake of the financial meltdown, top money expert Saly Glassman says investors need to take responsibility of their finances and get their investments back on track. Glassman, ranked the nation’s No. 1 woman financial advisor by Barron’s, is author of “It’s About More Than the Money: Investment Wisdom for Building [...]

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If you’re a new home buyer, or an existing homeowner who has been contemplating about selling your house or condominium apartment – you might want to start taking decisive action fast. There is free government money in the way of tax credits to be had for both prospective new home buyers and current homeowners – [...]

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Death and taxes. You can try to fight them both tooth and nail, but at the end of it all, it’s a losing proposition. Especially when it comes to taxes, the government is going to want its fair share cut of your salary and business profits one way or another, whether you like it or [...]

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