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‘Failing to plan is planning to fail’, is a quote attributed to Sir Winston Churchill or President Roosevelt depending upon your side of the pond. The point remains that planning is critical, especially in challenging times like the Second World War ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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Personal Finance
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Dear Dave,
I’m retired, and my husband plans to work for several more years. We have $130,000 in savings accounts, plus a rental property. The rental property has a $150,000 mortgage, but we have no other debt. Should we sell the rental and reinvest ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2014
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Personal Finance
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Dear Dave,
I make $30,000 a year. I’ve just started Baby Step 2 of your plan, and I’m paying off my debts from smallest to largest. I have $55,000 in debt, including $15,000 on a car loan. I recently picked up a part-time job to help pay down the de...
DATE: Aug 09, 2014
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Personal Finance
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Even adjusting for extraordinarily low interest rates, global equities are expensive and finding double-digit annual real returns over the next five years is going to be tough.
What’s worse, key markets, notably the US, are so overpriced that there i...
DATE: Jul 26, 2014
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Personal Finance
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Is there a target on the back of my dress? Because it feels like there is a target on the back of my dress.
It was painted there by the financial services industry, which has grown hyper-aware of the fact that women have a lot of money and are about ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2014
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Personal Finance
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Dear Dave,
My wife and I have $25,000 in credit card debt, $2,500 in medical bills and $89,000 each in student loan debt from when we each got our masters’ degrees. We make about $100,000 combined. Our son is six years old, and we have $18,000 in a ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2014
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Personal Finance
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This is part two of last week’s article.
The single biggest investment that most families will ever make over their lifetime is the purchase of a home. Second, by a long shot, but still almost a home-breaker is the cost of children’s educatio...
DATE: Jul 19, 2014
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Personal Finance
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Dear Dave,
My mom is 71 and debt-free. She’s investing $600 a month in a universal life insurance policy worth $250,000 because she wants to leave something behind when she dies. What could she invest this money in, other than the life insurance poli...
DATE: Jul 19, 2014
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Personal Finance
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Dear Dave,
I have job offers from two tech companies. One is in San Antonio and pays $55,000 a year, while the other is in Silicon Valley making $100,000 a year. My friends are advising me to move to California, but I feel like I’d have more money i...
DATE: Jul 12, 2014
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Personal Finance
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Dear Dave:
My husband has a great job, and I love my work and schedule as a substitute teacher. However, he wants me to take a full-time position so we can build more wealth. The only debt we have is our house, and we’ve already saved and invested a...
DATE: Jul 05, 2014
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Personal Finance
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