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Feb 16, 2012: The iPhone App Box is a phenomena in itself with an incredible number of unique applications. If you own an iPhone, you can make use of these apps in your day to day life. The app store has some great personal finance apps that can help you save a lot of money. Here are some tips that can help you make good use of your iPhone apps and also stick to your budget.

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Sep 01, 2011: Inflation is one of the perennial pests which eats away the purchasing power of your hard earned dollars. For those of you who are thinking about reaching FIRE need to keep a constant eye on inflation. So the next question is how do you find the current rate of inflation in USA?



Let's take a quick look at the data for inflation (via InflationData.com) for the past couple of

Jan 04, 2011: Today we were working on our tax returns for 2010. In the process of investigating our IRA eligibility (as a married couple filing jointly), we came across a cool tool, courtesy Wells Fargo. It's an IRA Eligibility Calculator which analyzes our eligibility based on a short interview. Check out this handy tool.


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After it displayed the results

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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Jan 25, 2010: We usually brown bag our lunches to save money and force ourselves to stick to a healthy diet. So far it has worked well. Not only that, it has inspired some of our colleagues to do the same. Over time our camaraderie has led to the formation of a small sized group (of us) who meet during

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Nov 19, 2009: We spend more than one third of our lives at our work places. Perhaps its a good idea to make sure that we are being paid well for our sweat and toil. But how do we go about finding out how much our salaries should be?

Well in this age of technology, smart people should use good tools to

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[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]The financial meltdown of the stock market (since the Fall of 2008) not only triggered a recession but wiped away 50% of our portfolio. So like most people we were wondering how long it will take to recover from this blow. Kiplinger came to our rescue with their special calculator which tells us how long it

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Most of us have a will in place. Well that is not the be all and end all of estate planning. Now a days most financial accounts come with the options of naming beneficiaries. If you plan to name beneficiaries or want to update out of date beneficiaries on your financial accounts then be aware of the

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Of late we've been studying Callan's Periodic Table of Investment Returns. Callan Associates are famous for presenting these charts free of cost to the world. Their Periodic Table of Investment Returns offers a comprehensive representation of relative asset class performance over the last 20 years. It

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]We were thinking of adding tax exempt investments (like MUNIs) to our portfolio. In the process we needed to figure out the tax equivalent yield of these investments. We cannot compare the returns from a tax exempt investment with that of a taxable one without accounting for our tax savings.To calculate the

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]With banks failing every other week, it is but natural to wonder about the safety of our bank deposits. Choosing a safe bank is only the beginning of the story. The next part is making sure that our deposits are FDIC insured. This will protect our monies in case our bank fails.Now suppose that we have

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]June 08, 2009: When we first started investing we got carried away by all the Wall Street hype. Without doing our homework we purchased individual technology stocks. Needless to say it was very risky and unwise to do so. Add to it the high brokerage fees that were prevalent in those days.We paid no

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]April 20, 2009: If stock markets appeal to you and you feel that online investing is fun then you might want to hone your skills with Wall Street Survivor which offers a free platform for a fantasy stock market. The platform simulates real world stock trading with high accuracy. This helps the players to

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]David Bach has been kind enough to send us a copy of his new book The Finish Rich Dictionary: 1001 Financial Words You Need to Know published by Oxford University Press.In this book David has demystified the language of commerce by giving detailed explanations of 1001 essential financial words. In addition he

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