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Yielding Wealth | Personal Finance

October 14th, 2008

Personal Finance: Don’t Follow Paulson’s Advice to Banks

This morning, there was a great deal of excitement surrounding a press conference that involved several officials (including President Bush) telling us all about how they are going to save our financial system from complete and utter ruin. The key is injecting more capital into banks, so that they will feel better about lending to […]

By miranda -- 3 comments

August 5th, 2008

Rates Remain the Same: Get That Consumer Debt Paid Down

About 45 minutes ago, the US Federal Reserve announced that its federal funds rate — which is the rate that banks charge each other for loans — will remain at the same low 2% it has been at for the past three months.
For people with cash investments (savings accounts, CDs, money market and the like), […]

By miranda -- 2 comments

June 20th, 2008

Personal Finance Tip #7: Learn to Cook

A post over at The Simple Dollar really inspired me. It’s ideas for preparing food inexpensively.
Learn to prepare meals at home from simple, unpackaged foods.
It’s a great money saving idea that can make you more self-sufficient, and help you reduce your expenses (thereby increasing the amount of money you have available to save, invest or […]

By miranda -- 1 comment

October 5th, 2007

5 Financial Planning Tips to Help You Get Started

Yvonne Russell, one of the writers over at Home Biz Notes, pointed out to me that it is Financial Planning Week. Sure, the week’s almost over, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t start thinking about financial planning NOW. In honor of Financial Planning Week, I offer 5 financial planning tips to help you get […]

By miranda -- 2 comments