Tag: financial blog
member name: Ms. Meacham: Money Maven
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July 02, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
Today shares of General Motors Corp. stocks plunged to the lowest level since September 1954. It's a rude awakening for a stock long listed as "blue chip," and one that's . . .
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May 14, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
I met a friend for drinks yesterday. She left her job several months ago, and with no job replacement in near term, is cashing out her 401(k) rather than rolling it over to an IRA. For her and her money . . .
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August 27, 2008 04:12 PM EDT --
The Office of the Attorney General has settled its three-year investigation into CitiBank's handling of customer over-payments and refunds, securing refunds for 53,000 affected CitiBank creditcard . . .
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February 19, 2008 06:52 PM EST --
I've heard all the rumors about the "economic stimulus" checks approved by Congress in recent weeks. Today I set out to check those rumors out. After speaking with my sources at the Internal . . .
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May 08, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
TODAY THE U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution to stop making pennies that cost more than they're worth -- a move that "could save about $100 million a year, or . . .
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July 10, 2008 09:24 PM EDT --
With the new iPhone 3G coming out tomorrow (July 11), some retail analysts predict consumers will be "on a weekend buying frenzy." I won't be one of them, although with my Palm Pilot . . .
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March 28, 2008 06:08 PM EDT --
While banks make $25 to $40 on every payment they run through your account after it's over drawn, you're left holding the bag -- at a time when you didn't have enough money to begin with. I have a huge . . .
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April 04, 2008 08:36 PM EDT --
An individual made a contribution for 2007, in March of 2008. He now realizes that it created an excess contribution and wants to know if his custodian can adjust it to a 2008 contribution. The answer . . .
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August 08, 2008 07:58 PM EDT --
Sometimes it takes a state the size of California to set off nationwide change. Let's hope its plan to automate IRA enrollment gets the same reception. California's plan would create state-managed . . .
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December 28, 2007 08:04 PM EST --
As Jan. 1 rapidly approaches, I sit down to carve out my goals for the coming year. My goals run the gamut from finally wrapping up all of the projects I've started to getting my house (financially . . .
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January 18, 2008 01:24 PM EST --
President Bush has spoken, today calling for " an economic growth package as soon as possible ." (For more see Chris W.'s Gather article, " Jumpstarting the economy: . . .
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February 06, 2008 07:41 PM EST --
The Bush budget proposal is in , and with it comes renewed fears that the current administration's plans are spiraling the American economy into a recession. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average . . .
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April 09, 2008 06:40 PM EDT --
"Do you know a FICO from an IRA?" So asks the Fine Living television network's new Money IQ test .
I just took it: 10 questions, lots of hints, entertaining and educational videos, . . .
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May 01, 2008 08:00 PM EDT --
RISMEDIA, May 2008 -- Despite the shakeup in many sectors of the mortgage industry, demand for real estate financing will remain strong through the third quarter of 2008, according to the Mortgage Bankers . . .
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July 16, 2008 05:33 PM EDT --
Do you know that you can use your 401(k), without using it up? Apparently about 45 percent of employees leaving 401(k)-generating jobs don't. A study by HR consulting firm Hewitt . . .
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November 28, 2007 02:42 PM EST --
THE HOUSING HUBBUB has a sunny lining for Gatherer's looking for a new place to call home . Home prices have fallen most sharply in the Sunbelt cities, marking a buyer's market for . . .
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April 30, 2008 12:51 AM EDT --
It's really no surprise that home prices measured by Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 cities fell at a record clip in February . We pretty much knew that was . . .
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July 23, 2008 07:49 PM EDT --
THIRTY-SOMETHINGS SCOTT AND ANGIE Patterson pooled their paint contracting and business development experience to become full-time property investors in 2002. Their co-owned firm, Greenlight . . .
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October 17, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
U.S. homeowners be warned: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the housing slump is "not ending as quickly" as presumed and looks like "it will continue to adversely impact our economy, . . .
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December 12, 2007 03:34 PM EST --
The Fed's Open Market Committee has spoken. It has cut interest rates another quarter point, sparking another sell-off on Wall Street where many investors wanted a half-point cut.
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