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Back to Basics: Spend less than you earn

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Pretty much any good personal finance resource you run across will talk about this: Spend less than you earn.  All this means is that your expenses (everything that leaves your wallet) are less than your income (everything that enters your wallet). If you're spending more than you bring ...

Time to get back to basics

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Millions of people in the US are feeling at least a little pain as the market whipsaws and home values go down.  The people feeling the most pain now have more mortgage debt than they can handle, the inability to refinance that debt, perhaps a lot of credit card debt, ...