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Young couples should rent

A opinion piece in Investment News claimed that ‘For young couples, renting may be a better option”.  I hate headlines like that  – they are designed to get your attention, but most people don’t have the time to read the article.  They end up with this piece of random advice floating around their head that [...]

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Credit card companies: Just trying to make 30% on a buck

I’ve written before about the history of credit cards.  Here’s a satirical take on the industry from The Comedy Channel’s Colbert Report. Credit Check www.colbertnation.com

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Like Apologizing for Friends the Morning after a Bender

Jon Stewart on The Daily Show has a way of putting his finger on things.  In this interview with Austan Goolsbee, chair of the Council of Economic Advisors,  took a couple of licks from Stewart, who equated Goolsbee’s position to a guy who has to apologize for his friends the morning after a bender. The [...]

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Inflation Means your Dollars Buy Less

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Most people think Inflation means that things get more expensive.  They also think “Deflation’ means that prices are dropping. Peter Schiff, a former US Senate candidate and President of Euro-Pacific Capital, famously called the housing bubble explosion before it happened.  He recently wrote a good article responding to NY Fed President William Dudley’s recent speech.  By: Peter Schiff [...]

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Should prospective home buyers wait any longer?

Thanks to Rick Melville, a Sr. Mortgage Planner at Fairway Independent Mortgage in Charlotte for this guest blog post: Winston Churchill once said that “a pessimist sees the difficulties associated with every opportunity and that an optimist sees the opportunities associated with every difficulty.” Just for fun I decided to do a little math problem [...]

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