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Couple Living in Camper After Foreclosure – Is it the Lender’s Fault? You Decide
As I was browsing some of the news on CNN, I came across a video that had the title: Foreclosure Family Camps Out, so I had to see what that was all about. I was curious to see where the blame was going to be placed, and what the details of the story were. We [...]
Reader Question: I’m Investing Regularly, but How Do I Know if I’m Doing Well?
This question actually came in just before I wrote about using Morningstar to track your investments against an appropriate benchmark, but it is certainly worth answering for the benefit of others as well. Understanding what you should be comparing your investments to will give you a clear picture of how well you’re doing, and whether [...]
Reader Question: I Can’t Pay My Bills! What Bills Should I Pay First?
When times are tough and you can’t find the money to pay all of your expenses, where do you turn and how do you decide who gets paid? Of course, in a perfect world we would all have sufficient emergency funds to cover these types of situations, but many people are faced with this question [...]
Since Whole Life Insurance Has a Cash Value, Is That Better Than a Term Policy?
Does the Cash Value of Whole Life Make it Better than Term? On the surface, this would make sense. A whole life policy does in fact build up cash value over time, whereas a term policy is “use it or lose it”, meaning if you don’t die before the term is up, you get nothing [...]
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