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Weekend Linkage: Suze Orman, Clutter and Debt Collectors

As we got closer and closer to the end of the year, you’ll start to see (and make) resolutions about 2010. Maybe you’re going to finally quit smoking, or start getting out of debt, or spend less (or more) time watching TV. Whatever your resolution, remember that it’s up to you to get going and […]

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Weekend Linkage: Investor Psychology, Financial Recovery and Google Voice

Why do we make bad decisions, even when we know they’re bad? Emotions play a big role in how we think and act around money, and for the most part, they’re negative influences. That’s why automation is so important if you’re looking to grow your net worth. Flexo at Consumerism Commentary goes even further, laying […]

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Weekend Linkage: Active Management, Kids and the World Series

It almost seems like an echo chamber in here. We’re constantly talking about how index funds perform better and cost less than actively managed funds; now, we can safely say they’re less risky, too. New research from Morningstar, which rates and researches mutual funds, has found that rarely is it worth the risk to invest […]

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Weekend Linkage: Debit Cards, Debt Free and Emergency Funds

While most of the Weekend Linkage posts tend to highlight stories from personal finance bloggers, this week, we’re showcasing two links from the granddaddy publisher of them all: the New York Times. I’ve ragged on the mainstream media before for not knowing how to publish useful personal finance content, but the Times comes through with […]

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Weekend Linkage: Cutting Debt, Checkbook Balancing and Bad Habits

There’s good news on the economic front: in July, American consumers cut their debt by $21.6 billion, the largest amount ever on record, according to Yahoo News. Consumers’ appetite for revolving credit, primarily credit cards, declined by $6.1 billion in July, an annualized rate of 8 percent that followed a 6.4 percent drop in June. […]

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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: 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: 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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