Tag: jennifer meacham
member name: Ms. Meacham: Money Maven
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July 24, 2009 04:57 AM EDT --
With the number of centenarians jumping from an estimated few thousand in 1950 to more than 340,000 worldwide today, it's a real possibility you'll live to be 100.
Indeed, Associated Press writer . . .
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May 07, 2007 03:48 PM EDT --
I'm watching MSNBC, and see that the White House has scheduled a "tea party" today with the Queen of England, fresh from Saturday's appearance at the famous Kentucky Derby horse race. . . .
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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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February 06, 2007 03:04 AM EST --
Try your hand at stock trading with this competition!
On March 5, CNBC launches its Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. You’ll have $1 million CNBC bucks to play with, selecting stocks . . .
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February 03, 2009 05:40 PM EST --
The newest savings figures are out from the Commerce Department, confirming my earlier suspicions (see " The online holiday retail breakdown -- Where's your silver lining? ").
According . . .
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January 31, 2007 12:27 AM EST --
TAX DAY IS APRIL 17 this year, and I'm knee deep organizing receipts, income statements and bank records. Thankfully, this year I have an easy way to stay up on the tax law changes that impact . . .
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March 26, 2007 10:11 PM EDT --
Consumers regularly run-up credit cards, dip into home equity or sell off investments and other other assets to finance day-to-day expenses, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In January . . .
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April 17, 2007 01:34 AM EDT --
Will this renovation project pay off?
CNNMoney.com provides an easy "renovation wizard" so you can quickly see the average cost, and return, of 25 common projects ranging from finishing . . .
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December 11, 2008 04:51 AM EST --
After my $20 shopping trip to Grocery Outlet, my first step was to make up the chili and sweet cornbread dinner meal . The next was a meal of broiled salmon, mashed potatoes and Caesar salad. For lunch . . .
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March 28, 2007 05:59 PM EDT --
Burger King says it will start buying eggs from suppliers who don’t confine chickens to cages. The chain already purchases 10 percent of its pork from crate-free suppliers.
Burger King . . .
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July 04, 2007 07:35 PM EDT --
Business and vacation travelers, the World Health Organization has just announced news that you should heed: Get off your, ummm, bottom and move around -- even when you're taking a road trip or . . .
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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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May 29, 2008 01:34 PM EDT --
This week has been a busy one for me, trying to wrap up half a dozen assignments due by month's end. So, today's The Bottom Line blog will focus on a few of the news stories that have crossed . . .
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August 15, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
I've been watching my "necessary evils" stock portfolio climb in recent months. American-made cigarettes, beer, and liquor are on the upswing.
I credit it to two things: people . . .
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January 19, 2007 04:35 PM EST --
Learn to save as banks, others offer incentives to help customers build up their balances
IF YOU RESOLVED TO SAVE MORE this year, you're not alone.
The average American . . .
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March 12, 2007 06:52 PM EDT --
According to Steven Camp, banking attorney at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, "American restaurants finally may be adopting anti-identity theft measures already found in other parts of the world and . . .
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January 26, 2009 01:31 AM EST --
I'm organizing this week's recycling, sorting a stack of old periodicals - The Economist, Forbes , a few copies of San Francisco's satirical Onion - when I was struck by a 2005 Onion . . .
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December 10, 2008 06:27 PM EST --
I'll bet you always knew that simple crackers can be used for more than adding sharp cheddar cheese and sweet mustard, or peanut butter, for an impromptu snack.... Here are 10 more ways to creatively . . .
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November 17, 2006 08:36 PM EST --
WHEN DENNIS VON PONTZ WAS 11 YEARS OLD, he learned how to plot stock market prices from his day-trading uncle. By the time he was 21, von Pontz owned a stock portfolio and was reading corporate annual . . .
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April 04, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
The U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. is holding average unclaimed benefits of nearly $5,000 for 32,000 people owed money from terminated defined benefit pension plans, reports RedwoodAge.com in "US: . . .
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