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Do You Believe Any of These 4 Personal Loan Myths?
Are there repairs around your house that need to be taken care of? Been itching to remodel a room?
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Do You Need Small Business Liability Insurance? 5 Questions to Ask
Keeping your operating costs low is a major concern when you're running a small business. There may not be room in your budget for optional add-ons right now, so you feel you have to stick to the essentials. As a result, you've probably wondered: Do you need small business insurance? Or is it an extra cost you can forg
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Small Business Opportunities To Boost Profits And Productivity
Inventory ManagergettySmall and medium-sized companies have many challenges, which are opportunities for improvement. Time-tested improvements were shared recently by the founder and managing partner of Riverlake Partners, a private equity firm that owns smaller and medium-sized businesses. Erik Krieger noted three opp
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Supply Chain Disruptions Are Pushing Up Inflation, But The Stock Market May Not Care
A few items were out of stock when the pandemic struck, but prices did not rise due to the moribund economy. A longer list of items is now in short supply, but the economy is recovering strongly. This could spark a persistent rise of inflation, but it is not clear that the impact on stocks will be negative.gettyPrior t
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The Median Home Sale Price in July Was $406,700. Will Prices Ever Come Back Down?
A recent National Association of Realtors report showed that the median existing-home price for all housing types in July 2023 was $406,700.
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This IRA Move Looks Smarter After the Stock Market Correction
One of the biggest problems with the way that most people save for retirement is that they fail to take taxes fully into consideration. With traditional IRAs and 401(k) plans, you typically set aside pre-tax money into a tax-deferred account that shelters your money from tax as long as it stays in the account. But once
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Want to Buy a Home in 2024? Here Are 4 Ways to Help Make It Happen
If you've spent the last few years itching to get on the property ladder, you might be feeling pretty discouraged by persistently higher mortgage rates and a stubbornly low number of houses for sale.
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What To Do With Excess Funds In Your Child’s 529 Plan—A Good Problem To Have
What do you do with "extra" funds in your child's 529 Education Savings Plan after they've finished college, or gone in a different professional direction?
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Why Jerome Powell's business-as-usual Jackson Hole speech was the best possible outcome
Fed Chair Jerome Powell's annual Jackson Hole speech was uneventful, but that's not a bad thing. Powell reiterated the Fed could start tapering its asset purchases this year and rates aren't changing soon. Stocks hit record highs during the speech as investors shrugged off fears of an early pullback in Fed support. See
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Will home prices drop if there's a recession?
Home prices are expected to increase moderately throughout 2025. While a recession could lead to a small decline in prices, a full-blown housing market crash is less likely.