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August 14, 2008

What is Netpicks?

 
I recently noticed that everyone around me seemed to regularly mention something called Netpicks. The word came up often enough in conversation that I felt curious about it. I finally decided to look it up to find out what it was that people were talking about. It turns out that Netpicks is a Forex Trading […]

April 26, 2008

Are Student Loans Really ‘Good Debt’?

Many people consider student loans to be "good debt," because they enable you to get the education for a better-paying career, theoretically making it worth going into debt.  However, Michelle Singletary of The Washington Post contests this view, begging college students and their parents to learn about student loans before taking the plunge.
It’s not a bad […]

January 20, 2008

4 Times in Life When You Should Apply for a Credit Card

There will be many times throughout your life when you are thinking about applying for a new credit card. Every time that we get into a financial pickle, we consider credit as a way to get ourselves out of trouble. Sometimes it’s a bad idea to accumulate more debt. However, there are four times in […]

December 27, 2007

Making the Most of Small Business Loans for your Bad Credit Business

You’ve done what you thought was impossible. You secured yet another small business loan for a business that appears to all onlookers like it’s going to fail. Your bad credit is piling up, your equipment lease payment is so late that you’re sure they’re going to come repo the machinery and you know that this […]

December 26, 2007

Always Repay Your Loans

From a very young age, my father began informing me of the important message behind the old adage: "never a borrower nor a lender be". Of course, as I got older, I began to realize that real life requires you to be a borrower and often asks that you be a lender. My own opinion […]