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[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Aug 1, 2008: This summer, during our cross country US Tour, we had to pay quite a lot of tips to bellboys, skycaps, waiters and waitresses at restaurants, taxi drivers, food delivery and room service. Since our travel lasted for nearly 8 weeks and spanned across ten expensive US metropolitans, we ended up

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).] While browsing through the archives of Vanguard's Plain Talk on Investing Podcast series we came upon an interesting podcast that explains ways to measure a fund's performance. In this podcast, Joseph Brennan, principal in charge of Vanguard's Portfolio Review Group, explains how to measure a fund's

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Today we present a $50 sign-up bonus from Citibank's old war horse - Diamond Preferred Rewards Card. This card is a cool one for folks seeking a 5% cash back on supermarkets, gas and drugstore purchases for next 12 months. It has no annual fee, and comes with a 0% APR on balance transfers for a year ......

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]If we have a good credit history, we'll receive plenty of 0% APR offers for new cards from reputed credit card companies. Congrats!Beware of the fine print though. Perhaps it's time to grab a magnifying glass and read the fine print well.What is sneaky about 0% APR offers?Most cards sneakily mention whether

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]It is a known fact that credit card companies attract new clients by advertising low "Fixed" APRs. Newbies might think that APRs on their balances are fixed till they pay it off, right? No dear, we are nowhere near the truth!What is sneaky about fixed rates?According to credit card jargon, "fixed rate" means

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]July 21, 2008: In order to diversify a portfolio, many experts suggest adding a few sector funds or ETFs. Why? Such a diversification helps hedge a portfolio during a bear market.Sector funds having a high negative co-relation to stocks help dampen the losses when the stock market takes a nose dive. Quite

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]In our popular post "Top Resources For Early Retirement Planning," we had presented a short profile of Billy and Akaisha Kaderli. They are well known for having reached FIRE really early. Today while browsing through Kiplinger archives we found a detailed case study profiling Billy and Akaisha's early