All Posts Tagged With: "Financial Services"

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Target-Date Retirement Funds - Driving Into Retirement on Cruise Control

Target-Date Retirement Funds gradually change from a more aggressive, risky portfolio to a more conservative, safe portfolio as you get closer to retirement. They’re meant to take the worry out of retirement investing, but remember, you also give up a certain amount of control. These funds have become popular in the last […]

29May2008 | User ImageLisa | 3 comments | Continued
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Running the Gauntlet on Debt: A Debt Reduction Plan

OK, you got yourself here, now what? You’re surrounded by your 44 inch flat screen TV, there’s a new car in the driveway, and you could start a company called Video Game Central. But you’re bottom of the barrel broke. You’re paying the minimum on three of those fancy “Platinum” Credit Cards, […]

29Apr2008 | User ImageLisa | 6 comments | Continued
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When People Go Bad: A History of the Subprime Mess

I’ll sum it all up in four words - deregulation, unscrupulous, predatory, greed.
There you have it. And now, here we are, in up to our necks, even atheists helplessly praying, watching as our 401ks shrink from ripe plump grapes into shriveling raisins, hoping we still have our homes and some retirement money left when the […]

14Apr2008 | User ImageLisa | 12 comments | Continued