The 7 Laws of Negotiation
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Spending Beyond Our Means: US Trade Balance By Decade
Share This How many zeroes are in 690 billion? Most of us need to write it out, just to make sure we’ve got our numbers straight. President Obama can probably tell you in his sleep. He’s presiding over a $690 billion trade deficit, the largest in the history of the United States, both as a number (that’s ten zeroes, by the way) and as a percentage of our country’s GDP (that’s 5%). Our latest infographic takes a look at deficit spending through the decades. A trade… Read the whole article...Categories: Uncategorized Tags: 1980s, Decade, Decades, Ford, Gdp, Infographic, Last Time, Sleep, Trade Deficit
Tips for Paying Off Student Loans
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How to Go Into Debt to Get Out of Debt
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10 High Paying Jobs That Don’t Require An Undergraduate Degree
Leave a Comment We’re going through one of the tougher recessions in the past few decades, and jobs are very hard to find. Going to school for four years and paying for four years of undergraduate schooling is not on the minds of very many people right now. Survival mode is more on your minds, and one of the biggest misconceptions about finding a career that pays a lot of money is that you MUST have at least a bachelor’s degree.… Read the whole article...Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Apprenticeship, Decades, Finance, High Paying Jobs, Lot, Personality, Recessions, Yahoo
Will Replacing 401(k) Plans With Portable Pensions Fix Retirement Planning?
Over the weekend, I finally got around to reading this Time magazine article about Why It’s Time to Retire the 401(k) which has been getting some buzz. The author promotes bringing back what I call “portable pensions” to replace the employee-controlled 401(k) plan, which would guarantee say 50% of your last year’s salary for the rest of your life. Sounds nice, but how will it work, and who’ll pay for it? Take the Mr. Shively in the article, who is still working at 68. About 25 years ago, his employer dropped the pension and replaced it with a… Read the whole article...Categories: Money Tags: 401 K Plan, 401 K Plans, Buzz, Decades, Lifetime, Pensions, Rest Of Your Life, Retirement Planning, Salary
3 Dangers of Conventional Budgeting
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