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The Nine ETFs YOU Need to Know About
The Universe Called ETFs New to ETFs? It’s easy to flail around, trying to select from the more than 1,000-plus ETFs currently available (!), I turned to the MarketRiders service to help me separate...
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The Lowdown on Your Lending Club Account Total (and MIne)
Accrued Interest No Longer Part of Account Total Accrued interest was removed recently (in the last day or two) from the Account Total calculation. (Accrued interest is interest on a Note that has...
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GUEST POST: Retiring Overseas? How to Protect your Retirement Fund
About the Author: Mario Vitanelli strives to be a global-financial expert. When he succeeds, he’ll be sure to let everyone know. In the meantime, works with QROPS Group and writes on everything from...
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Diet for Free–and for Science (and My Own Personal Journey)
Recently Lift.do, the goal-setting and motivation site, launched the Quantified Diet, a crowdsourced study comparing ten popular diets. It is the largest randomized trial of popular diets. There have...
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Opening and Running a Restaurant–Not So Fast
Great food is a #1 concern—and industry—in San Francisco, and dining news is everywhere you go. There are now more two-star Michelin-rated restaurants in SF than in New York City. I believe it. Have...
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From 0 to New Mattress in Less Than 4 Hours*
A Tale of Retail Madness and Redemption 1:27pm Spending a night sleeping on the hard floor because of my bad back convinced me it was clearly time to shop for a new mattress. Not so affectionately...
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RETIREMENT UPDATE: You Think YOU’ve Got It Bad…
–UPDATE: I am happy to report that I retired early from the tech world on Aug.1, 2014–two years earlier than my original goal. To what do I attribute this? Where there’s a will, there’s a way. I was...
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DOWNSIDE: Tipping with Plastic – Who Really Gets It?
Most of us pay for dinner with a credit or debit card and add a couple dollars where it says, “Tip.” But what happens to that tip? Where does that money actually go? Waiters and waitresses are...
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Bagging It: My Soggy Story
October 22 is National Pack-a-Sack Lunch Day. Here is my soggy story (with a happy ending): The “B” word (“budgeting”) is never fun, and neither is the other “B” word – “bagging” it, or bringing your...
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On WSJ The Experts: The 77/11 Effect Neatly Explained
The Long-Term Price of the Gender Pay Gap PF Expert and CFA Manisha Thakor recently posted on Wall Street Journal’s The Experts column (The Long-Term Price of the Gender Pay Gap) a response to...
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