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Weekend Linkage: Online Banking, Tools and Automation

If there was no theme to last week's Weekend Linkage, this week is the complete opposite: each story draws directly from the Automatic Finances system for money management. Saving for Serenity lays out a plan for Automating Annual Expenses like birthday/anniversary/Christmas presents, offering two options: setting up subaccounts for specific goals, or having one bigger [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Starting Over, Slush Funds and Clunkers

Each week, as I'm putting together the stories for the Weekend Linkage, I try to come up with a theme to tie them together. This week, there's no theme at all. After Fred argued that cash for clunkers could hurt low-income drivers, Freakonomics looks into the bill actually passed in Congress, saying there's Still No [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Pay Your Bills, Track Your Spending and Build Wealth

Now that I'm back on track (and mostly settled into the new house), let's take a look at some of the posts that caught my eye over the past week. Budgets are Sexy says to "Look At Bill, Pay The Bill, Forget About Bill." Better managing your bill payment — especially automating them — can [...]

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Best of Automatic Finances: May 2009

I may be a couple of days late on this roundup, but you'll have to forgive me: I'm dealing with my new responsibilities of homeownership. Not only are we going through the process of unpacking boxes and putting everything in its place, but we encountered the first unexpected expense of owning a home: repairs. The [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Investing, Debit Cards and Your Bank

Isn't it nice to hear good news? Despite a crazy week of swine flu hysteria and the president's first 100 days in office, there's actually some positive things happening in the world of money. The Wall Street Journal reports that Debit-Card Use Overtakes Credit for Visa for the first-time ever. This is great news for [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Suze Orman, Lenny Dykstra and Your Financial Health

One of the things I quickly learned about managing money is that I needed to understand as much as I possibly could in order to make the right decisions. Hopefully, you're doing the same (and not making these money mistakes). But if you're listening to certain financial "gurus" or TV personalities, you might not be [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Spring Cleaning, Service Discounts and Entrepreneurship

Now that spring has officially arrived (both on the calendar and in the forecasts), it's a great time to do a bit of cleaning of your life: your finances, your bills and your career. The Dough Roller starts it off with 10 Tips to Declutter Your Finances. These ten tips fall right in line with [...]

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