~Tue~ May 30th 2006
What do couples fight about more than anything else? Sex. But what’s a close second? Money. USA Today is running a seven-week series of articles about relationships and finances. Each week the paper profiles a different couple, examining their relationship with money and then asking a financial planner to offer recommendations for improvement. For example, [...]
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~Tue~ May 30th 2006
Here’s a piece of news that’s odd but good. The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday conceded a legal dispute over the 3 percent federal excise tax on long-distance telephone service and said $13 billion would be refunded to taxpayers. One-hundred-six years ago, in 1898, the U.S. Congress implemented a long-distance phone tax to help fund [...]
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~Fri~ May 26th 2006
“That’s a nice shirt,” José said to me today. José is my shop foreman. “You like it?” I asked. “I got it cheap!” “I’ve got one just like it,” he said. “Same color. Same brand. Same everything.” “How much did you pay? I only paid six dollars for mine,” I said proudly. “I got it [...]
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~Fri~ May 26th 2006
All the money books tell you to do it. All the personal finance blogs say it, too. Even your dad has given you the same advice: Save ten percent of everything you earn. But it’s hard. That money could be used someplace else. You could pay the phone bill, could pay down debt, could buy [...]
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