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Jan 19, 2011: Vanguard's chairman and CEO Jack Brennan has nearly three decades of valuable experience in investing at this great firm. He has observed that successful long term investors share some common traits. Here is our spin to his observations.
Plan Ahead: Successful retirees planned well ahead of time to meet their retirement's financial needs and they walked the talk triumphantly. This

Jun 28, 2011: The big debate these days is whether home ownership is still everything it's cracked up to be. Yes, we still get a tax deduction on the amount of interest we pay, but the building of equity is no longer a given with a home mortgage.

There are many areas around the United States with falling home prices, causing some people to be upside-down on their loans and leaving them unable to

Jun 14, 2011: Every summer as the heat steps up so does our utility bill. This year we are planning ahead on cutting back our energy consumption for the summer. It will do good to our environment and help us pocket a nice saving as well. After all, it makes sense to invest our hard earned dollars rather than giving them away to utility companies. Each dollar saved can help us go a long way if a

Nov 16, 2010: On a quiet evening, a couple of years ago, we returned from work to find our apartment complex in flames. In front of our eyes we saw one apartment after another being consumed by monstrous flames. While we helplessly looked on, our city's brave fire fighters fought the flames. By God's grace they put out the fire when it was a couple of apartments away from ours. Though our

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[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Until recently it was almost always assumed that renting meant throwing away money. The golden money rule was to build home equity since real estate "always" appreciated. Thanks to the sub prime mortgage fiasco and the recession that emanated from it, the real estate bubble finally burst with a big

Dec 1, 2008: One of the basic necessities for humans is shelter. It is often true that we pay around 15 to 35 percent of our take-home salaries in rent or mortgages. For those of us who are renting apartments, the rent-money is sheer waste since we are not building any home equity. So our aim should be to shell out as less rent dollars as possible. But how do we find out whether we have got a

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).] While doing some research on the sub prime mortgage fiasco we came across some interesting data, courtesy Bloomberg and Company. These figures show the credit losses incurred so far by various financial giants. Citigroup heads the table of losses with a gigantic $40.7 billion dollars till date. Here is the

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Some American cities are doing fine irrespective of falling home prices (at national level), rising unemployment and an economy with a slow growth(?). To find America's top 10 recession proof cities Forbes conducted a study. They examined the country's 50 largest metros and looked at several key measures: