TweetA couple of interesting news stories yesterday about the Chinese economy have piqued my attention and made me wonder about the near term future of the country. First and foremost, this should in no way be interpreted as a completely pessimistic vision of China’s future. China has always been an important ecnomomic and political power [...]

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TweetAs a part of my savings goals, I was trying to figure out the very best place to put the emergency savings fund that I have been building up. The options included: 1. Contributing more and more money to my Capital One 360 (formerly ING DIrect) account where I receive a very good interest rate [...]

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TweetAcross many of the travel blogs the last week there has been a lot of chatter over award chart devaluation. Of particular concern has been the increase in costs for redemptions at hotels, with all of the major programs upping their requirements over the last two weeks. Just about every blog, from Thepointsguy.com to ViewFromtheWing.com, [...]

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TweetThe latest firestorm in Congress’ budgetary wars is the sequester, a series of across the board automatic spending cuts to Federal programs totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years. The sequester will particularly affect military spending, and damage every state in the union. This is a serious problem, and designed to impose European style austerity over [...]

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TweetAs a part of my yearly financial review (the one that saved me a lot of money on auto insurance which I discussed a week ago), I reevaluated all of the credit cards in my wallet. In general, you should never cancel a no-fee card as having it increases your length of credit/average account age [...]

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TweetA couple of days back I wrote about an amazing quote I had received from Geico after running through their self serve quote generator at Geico.com. In that post, I mentioned how the quote was so good, I actually thought it was too good to be true, so I wanted to wait to post more [...]

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TweetSometime in the next 6 months I plan on getting a new laptop. I am hereby calling for proposals of what exactly I should get. Portability is key to me, but also power as this will be my "work horse" computer. I am intrigued by the Mac Air, but realize playing games with an external [...]

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TweetI recently sat down and made a spreadsheet for my fixed and flexible expenses as part of my ongoing plan to try and reduce expenses in 2013. You can read more about in a previous post. Anyway, I noticed that one of the largest recurring fixed expenses, as it is for most people, is on [...]

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TweetTesting, testing, 1, 2, 3…. Share and Enjoy:

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TweetIt looks as though a deal may be near which is great news for the American economy. Nothing is official but it looks like the two big cost savings devices are coming from 1) tax increases on those making over $400k and 2) changing the way CPI is calculated for those on Social Security and [...]

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