If you’re interested in tracking your money with Intuit Quicken 2009, and you’d like to upgrade to or install the newest versions, there are three days left before prices for the software go up. On June 1, no discounts will be offered on Quicken software, and if discounts do return later, they may be ...

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Reality bites Adam Lambert? There’s nothing real about reality television. Most of us know this already, but that doesn’t tend to detract from our enjoyment of the completely fabricated situation. If you buy into the farce and fantasy of television and seek to shut down your brain for a while, you more than likely have at ...

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I read a lot of personal finance books. Most possess a certain sameness. They offer good advice, yes, but there’s nothing special about them. Perhaps that’s why I’m drawn to two specific types of financial books: narratives and histories. If a book can combine both of these elements, it’s a good bet I’m going to ...

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According to Alan Greenspan, this is of the first types of spending that consumers give up when a recession is felt personally. When men come to the point at which they need to save more money than usual and decide to cut bank their spending, underwear is at the top of the list of possible ...

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I’ve gotten to the part in The Snowball that involves Charlie Munger. A very interesting person, although probably not someone I’d like to have a beer with (I’d feel stupid), he is probably best known as Buffett’s long-time friend, business partner, and vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Even before meeting Warren ...

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