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Archive for February, 2007

How Do You Feel About Bank of America Offering Credit Cards to Illegal Immigrants?

Bank of America is expanding a program that allows individuals with no credit history or even a social security number, many of which are illegal immigrants, to obtain a credit card. In the past few years banks started to allow these individuals to open checking accounts and even obtain mortgages, but now the first step [...]

Do You Ever Wish You Could Have Invested in The Beatles Before They Were Big?

If The Beatles were a publicly traded company and you could have purchased shares when their first album was released in 1963 can you imagine what they would be worth today? In a similar fashion many people purchase shares of brand new, small and virtually unknown companies with dreams they become the next Microsoft or [...]

Weekly Mutual Fund Review: Oakmark Equity & Income (OAKBX)

One of the more common things I hear from people is that they want to obtain average returns of equities but do not want the volatility that comes with it. The obvious answer would be to utilize some sort of asset allocation by introducing more stable fixed-income investments, but then you have the argument that [...]

How to Get Money For Your Old Clothes and Buy Quality Clothing at a Fraction of Retail

If you’re like most people you probably have a closet filled with articles of clothing you no longer wear. Whether it is due to gaining or losing weight so they no longer fit or you simply don’t wear them anymore it makes no sense to hang on to these items most of the time. We’re [...]