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Start an Investment Club: How To, Rules and Reality Checks

A few years back some coworkers and I started an investment club. We were an ambitious bunch (still are), but perhaps too much so for the realities we’d face in trying to run an investment club. There was a group of five of us and our stated goal was to return 15% per year on […]

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Sallie Mae Study Shows That College Students Are Using Credit More Often

The following is a guest post at Darwin’s Finance from Think Debt Relief. If interested in guest posting here, inquire further via this contact form. A recent study by student lender Sallie Mae shows that college students are now relying more heavily on their credit cards than they have at any time in the past. […]

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10 Ways to be Annoying at Work and Ruin your Career

After spending some time in corporate America in roles ranging from the trenches in manufacturing to the cube farms in corporate to running international teams for projects, there are probably hundreds of annoying behaviors I’ve witnessed (and admittedly, a few that I’ve exhibited and learned from as well) that are worth mentioning. Here are ten […]

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Advanta Freezes Credit Cards – High Yield Notes in Jeopardy?

In a desperate attempt to preserve capital, Advanta has halted all charges from its small business customers after June 10. This is especially disturbing to not just small business card holders, but also, the thousands of individuals holding their high yield investment notes (see initial skeptical article 1 month ago on Advanta Investment Notes). In […]

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Weekly Linkfest: Stress Test Edition

Another week of great reads during the dreaded “Stress Test” week for the banks which was met with a general yawn in the face of $75 Billion more that the main institutions need to raise. These are entries from blogs I frequent, and I hope you will too (just come back!). I’ve also included various […]

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Start Investing Today: An Amazing Comparison of 25 vs 35 Year Old Starters

When I was in my late teens, my father shared with me some retirement savings advice that was so compelling that I said, “I need to start investing today!” and I while I didn’t really know how to start investing, I did some basic research with “Value Line”, sought out an actual broker (this was […]

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Swine Flu Stocks: Novavax CEO Interview on Vaccine Progress

Following the recent post on all swine flu stocks and other non-stock swine flu investments and how they stand to benefit or suffer under various scenarios, I’ve been keeping my eye on Novavax (NVAX) news especially. Today, a series of interviews were provided by the Novavax CEO Rahul Singhvi to discuss the swine flu vaccine […]

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Weekly Links, “Swine Flu” Edition

Another week of great reads (a bit belated from my normal weekend posting, sorry). These are entries from blogs I frequent, and I hope you will too (just come back!). I’ve also included various finance/investing carnivals that published my material this week as well as my posts within my network since the last weekly links. […]

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Swine Flu Investment Ideas

On Sunday, the US declared the Swine Flu as a public health emergency in the US, which inevitably will leave traders and investors wondering whether there are some swine flu stocks and investment ideas that make sense now. This article is not meant to trivialize or denigrate the people impacted, but rather, simply provide some […]

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