April, 2009

Google Public Data and Government Transparency

Get the skinny with Google Public Data You’re online, you Google. It’s nearly as much of a given as breathing. Unless you’re one of those Yahoo! only people… you know who you are. But are you using the search tool to its ultimate capacity? It can have a big economic impact upon you. Let’s say you’re ...

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How to Find the Right CD or Money Market Account

This is a guest post from Richard Barrington, a Chartered Financial Analyst and 20-year veteran of the financial industry. Barrington blogs regularly at MoneyRates. Conservative savings vehicles such as certificates of deposit (CDs) and money market accounts look especially appealing these days, despite low interest rates. But how do you pick the right savings vehicle for ...

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The Latest on Mortimer

I'd been wondering lately what Mortimer was up to. Since being laid off at the end of February, he'd only managed to go on one interview. I tried to hook him up with a job at my company that would have been perfect, but the position ended up being down-graded and they thought he was ...

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An Introduction to Life Insurance

Many of you have asked for life insurance information, so Ray from Financial Highway offered to provide this guest post on the subject. This is new info for me, too. Protecting your family from financial disasters is one of the fundamental components of financial planning. Life insurance should be a core part of that planning process. ...

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Verizon and iPhone To Join Hands in 2010?

Verizon and iPhone? Give ‘em a hand! When it comes to smart phones in America, there are three things that should be accepted as fact: That they are expensive (there are people who have used payday loans in Kansas and credit cards to buy them) The iPhone is the phone of choice for non-business users You have to be ...

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