Unbelievably, “Are Credit Cards Weapons Of Mass Financial Destruction?” won CreditCardChaser’s $500 AMEX Love/Hate challenge! I plan to use the proceeds to purchase toys for underprivileged youth. And in the spirit of personal finance discussions, I’m curious how you would spend $500 on kids if the choice was yours. I’ll share 5 possible ways to […]
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Are credit cards weapons of mass financial destruction? The answer depends on if your name is Saddam Hussein. Although proponents would say no proof was ever found! You hear so many stories of consumers up to their eyeballs in credit card debt, and I’m just wondering WHY? Credit card debt is the most expensive debt out
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What is it that makes us happy? It could be a million different things. There’s no single answer. So much of it is in our mindset though. And, happiness seems to come easier to some people than others. But let’s try and narrow down what happiness really is and what it stems from. So, if
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Want to get happy? Here’s a lovely article highlighting that over the past 18 months, the percentage of Federal Government employees making over $100,000 jumped from 14% to 19%! An even more astonishing fact is that 1,690 employees at the Department of Transportation now make over $170,000 vs. only one before the recession started. My
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Women shouldn’t be penalized for being a mom. After all, if you want kids, someone has to give birth! This post discusses the unfair double standard some women face in their careers if they take time off to have children. I originally wrote this post on December 11, 2009 when I was 32 years old
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Jane White’s book America, Welcome To The Poorhouse is an angry rant that you just may agree with incessantly. Author Bio: Jane White is Founder & President of Retirement Solutions, LLC, which promotes 401(k) reform and provides investment education. Publisher: FT Press. A compact 247-pages in hardcover. Summary: America, Welcome To The Poorhouse is one angry,
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What is this blasphemy you say? One of our main tenets is to observe what people DO with their money, and not what they preach. The public clearly loves Bank of America and Wall Street again because how else would Bank of America be able to raise $19 billion from us, to pay us back?
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Have you ever wondered why the world forgives rich and famous people for cheating? Believe it or not, it happens all the time. Here’s one example that I wrote about back in 2009. As soon as I got into work one morning, my female colleague blurted out, “OH MY GAWD! GUESS WHAT?! “ “What? Hrmmm,”
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Thanks for reading Financial Samurai! Here’s a look back at what was happening the week of 11/30/2009. The US consumer was strong despite a bumpy stock market. Funny enough, much the same can be said today in 2021. The US consumer is alive and kicking! With the world stock markets crashing last week, nobody really
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Back in November 2009, the world stock markets were crashing. I wrote this post back then because I kept coming across people who were not clued into what was happening in the global economies. They were busy going shopping for unnecessary things instead. Who would have thought that one of the most glitzy countries in
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