I’ve mentioned the idea about writing a personal finance book to a couple people, but I thought I’d get some feedback from all of you. I’ve become a bit of a personal finance nut over the past year and it took me a while to figure out what was relevant to me as a 20-something [...]
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Now that we’re in 2009, it’s not a bad idea to start thinking about 2008 taxes. I don’t expect anything to be drastically different this year, but there are a few things I’m going to be looking at this year.
Credit for Qualified Retirement Savings Contributions
Form 8880 – TurboTax filled this in for me last [...]
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How Much Could You Have if Social Security Was YOUR Money?
AllFinancialMatters has an interesting post up about what kind of money you could accumulate if you were able to take the money coming out of your paycheck and invest it yourself. He’s using an optimistic 10%, but he also forgot to include the employer’s portion [...]
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I’ve been blabbing on about finances for a little bit now and up to this point I haven’t been very aggressive about saving for retirement. Saving for retirement is good and dandy, but right now is the most important time for us to put away money (if you are wondering why see this post on [...]
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