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Monthly Tasks: Household Financial Meetings

Image via Wikipedia Anybody who lives with another person needs to be holding regular household meetings to express concerns – the importance grows exponentially as the level of relationship between roommates increases. Simple college roommates need to get together – both with literal room-mates and with those who merely share the floor of a building [...]

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Are You Credit-Ready?

Personal finance advice often creates two camps: those who oppose credit cards and those who support their usage (with responsibility, of course). I fall into the proponent camp, because I think building good credit is a great way to finance a car or house without paying in cash, which is difficult for most to accomplish. [...]

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Finance: The Pareto Principle

Anybody studying economics, business, or many other areas has heard of The Pareto Principle: the law that states that 80% of results come from 20% of effort. It is a common rule used in businesses to express that 80% of business will come from 20% of clients, and 80% of clients will come from 20% [...]

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