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Pay Off Debt or Invest? Think About Your Rate of Return

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Andrew writes in: My girlfriend and I bought a home last year and qualify for the First Time Homebuyer Credit. When you include my share of this, I will be getting back around $4500 in my tax refund. This is a lot of money to me and I’m trying to decide what to do with it. About half will go toward an engagement ring, but I’m torn between investing the other half or paying off my $2,000 in credit card debt. I currently have a very low APR on the credit card and can pay more than the minimum each… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - February 5, 2010 at 4:20 am

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How to Go Into Debt to Get Out of Debt

This really sounds like the ultimate oxymoron, but one of the best ways to get out of debt is to go a little bit further in. What’s that? First, to help this make more sense, let’s clarify – if you need to get out of bad debt, going into good debt will help you pay off those credit cards and make more money. It’s important to understand that there is a huge difference between good debt and bad debt. Going into good debt has some risks, but when managed correctly, you can end up making enough money to quit… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - November 24, 2009 at 1:20 pm

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Investing Rules of Thumb

One of the biggest rules of thumb that you can keep in mind when it comes to investing is to look at three different variables in everything that you do. These three variables are liquidity, risk and returns. Liquidity is how fast or how easily you can convert an investment that you make back into cash. Returns is what you are capable of reaping in comparison to what has been sown. Risk is how much of a gamble it is for you to make a certain investment. Usually if one of these variables is more, then at least one… Read the whole article...

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - October 21, 2009 at 6:20 pm

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Starting Small – $1000 or Less Investments

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Robert Wilkinson - August 16, 2009 at 10:20 am

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