I spend a lot of idle time thinking about how we can get our personal finances back to the glory days of 2008 for us. Back when we didn't have a larger home, a baby, 2 incomes and all the expenses that come with them. Thats not to say we want to go ...

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Is this just Manny being Manny - or are Dodger fans going to see him leave? Offseasons are difficult to weather for baseball addicts. Life goes on as it does, our obligations lead us here and there and other sports attempt to fill the gap. Nothing soothes the baseball nut like baseball season. Fans know that ...

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Pre Agricultural Times In times before agriculture, humans had to go out and kill or pick their food from nature. Sporadic nuts, berries, certain vegetables, and animal fat and protein is what our genetic makeup has evolved from. We have evolved and thrived on this type of food. Better health and more activity for humans were ...

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One of the hottest asset classes in 2009 by far was Emerging Markets, which includes stocks from developing markets like China, Brazil, Korea, Taiwan, India, and South Africa. Two of the most popular ETFs in this category are the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) and the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO). Which one should ...

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Human nature has a built-in habit that allows us to compare everything with something else we have. We hasten to compare services offered by banks as we apply for a credit card. We do not apply this same theory to debt reduction. Hoping the debt will go away, we often look the other way. When ...

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