Weekend Linkage

Weekend Linkage: Coupons, Credit Scores and Cut Backs

Do you know the best way to boost your credit score? In this economy, as our friends in the media love to say, it's not easy to get your credit score high — and then keep it there. Visual Economics, who created the amazing graphics on paychecks and credit cards, offers these 4 tips for [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Investing Again, Student Loans and Lazy Portfolios

Have you been investing throughout the downturn in the economy? Hopefully the answer is yes, because otherwise you've missed out on an amazing 45% increase since the bottom in March. But if you're waiting to get back in to the market, or are about ready to make the plunge, check out Business Insider's 12 Things [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Goldman Sachs, Passive Investing, and Txting $

Looking for some good summer reading? There's not much time left before schools start up again, the beaches start to clear out, and football gets into full swing. This week, Rolling Stone has a massive story on Goldman Sachs, where it claims that the investment bank "has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Buy and Hold, Overdrafts and the Internet Revolution

As we get into the middle of August and closer to the end of summer, we'll start to get back into the swing of things. And as employment numbers "get better" — meaning less people are filing for unemployment — and the stock market ticks back up, perhaps brighter days are right around the corner. [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Bad Habits, Automatically Poor, and the Recession

While things are looking up in this economy — the Dow hits 9000, housing sales are up and companies are reporting better-than-expected results — it's still tough out there. Some are even suggesting that we're only in the first third of the recession. But just because times are difficult doesn't mean you can't do better [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Creating Wealth, FSAs and Your Home

Like a few weeks back, this Weekend Linkage has no theme, except that each story is interesting and should save (and make) you some money. That sounds pretty good. Maybe that'll be the theme: saving and making money. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, here are the stories. At MSN Money, tax [...]

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