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Tracking Unclaimed Benefits From Pension Plans and Past Employers
CNBC’s Sharon Epperson’s “New Retirement” segment shows workers how to track all the retirement funds they have coming to them.
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Risky Business, Your Financial Fitness »
Do we really need less regulation? Well, that ol’ adage seems rather apropos here: “You get what you pay for.” If the pols want to deregulate, (and it might be worth understanding why and their agenda) you might want to reconsider their public service. Regardless, it’s our responsibility … to be the regulators … to read the fine print and take nothing for granted. No matter how much regulation exists, or not, our system is malfunctioning on many levels, … again, “Caveat emptor … Let the buyer beware!”
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Account For Change, Your Financial Fitness »
UPDATE: FRI 09 DEC 11 | 06:15 PM ET
What today’s EU agreement, to enforce greater stability, means for you and your money – Cramer explains
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Euro risk to the US: understanding the magnitude and consequences of a contagion … to our big banks … to your bank … your money fund … your checking account, explained in simple terms by Cramer (think: holiday giftwrap)
Part One
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Part Two
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Account For Change, Your Financial Fitness »
Our economy’s engine is powered primarily by the 99% of the consuming public: the middle class and lower income groups.
Regardless of politics, it is a fact that the 99% spend more of their income to power the total economy than do the top 1%. It is pure logic by the numbers: the costs of the 99%er’s needs make up a much larger proportion of their income than those same needs of the top 1%. The 99% have to spend the money on food, clothing, and shelter leaving little or nothing left …
Account For Change, Your Financial Fitness »
S&P/Case Shiller U.S. Home Prices
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Housing Prices Under Pressure
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Account For Change, Your Financial Fitness »
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Taking Stock, Your Financial Fitness »
You might think that under your mattress is the best place to keep your money, especially when bonds, CDs, and money markets do not pay enough interest; but there are other places that can still increase the value of your money IF you diligently maintain a watchful eye and are nimble enough to move into the investment vehicle that serves to your best advantage.
The goal is to keep the value of your money ahead of inflation plus have your money realize a gain that will be more profitable than under the …
Account For Change, Your Financial Fitness »
By The Associated Press
Some 55 million Social Security recipients will get a 3.6 percent increase in benefits next year, their first raise since 2009, the government announced Wednesday.
The increase, which starts in January, is tied to a measure of inflation released Wednesday morning.
About 8 million people who receive Supplemental Security Income will also receive the 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, meaning the announcement will affect about one in five U.S. residents.
There was no COLA in 2010 or 2011 because inflation was too low. Those were the first two years …
