Correlation between Weight and Money (Photo from pyxopotamus, Flickr.com) Is there a correlation between how much you weigh and how many debts you have? While this is something that most people who have a lot of extra weight may not agree with, there are certain reasons why this may be true. The fact is that a person ...

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Last winter, Kris and I refinanced our mortgage. Interest rates had dropped, and it seemed like a good idea to make the leap. Though it took us a couple of months to actually pull the trigger, we finally ended up cutting the interest rate on our loan from 6.25% to 4.96%. According to sites like ...

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A Welcome Step Everyone, including President Obama, has been cautious in their movements when major banks announced last week that they were returning over $50 billion in loans that they had received as bailouts from the government. The taxpayers’ money was used as a loan from the government to bail out the banks on the promise ...

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Have you applied for a payday loan at a local loan mart within the last few months? If you have, then you might have been asked to sign a petition stating that you won’t support the current initiative that’s trying take your right to obtain short term loans away. There seems to be a team ...

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This article is the final installment of a 14-part series that explored the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. Here’s the opening paragraph from my forthcoming book, Your Money: The Missing Manual. It’s the sum of everything I’ve learned during my five year journey to get rich slowly: You don’t want to be rich — you want ...

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