It all works out if you give it enough time, plus the rest of the week's great reads...

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Rewiring your money mindset to go beyond standard savings tips

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Credit cards can punish those who spend recklessly by sinking their finances into the red. But deployed in the right way, a credit card can equally be a powerful financial tool. Consider a sharp knife. You wouldn’t be without out one in the kitchen – but you also have to respect the risk of causing […]

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Surveying the wreckage, plus the rest of the week's good reads…

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A choice of cheap index trackers to help passive investors craft their portfolios

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Do you know how much you're allowed to keep of what you earn? The answer might surprise you.

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 Berkshire Hathaway is the holding company of super-investor Warren Buffett. He transformed a struggling textile mill into a conglomerate with a significant portfolio of equites and significant interests in railroads, insurance, utilities, industrials etc. Because of the size of his equity portfolio investments, Berkshire Hathaway has to report its US equity holdings every quarter to the...

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 As part of my review process, I monitor the list of dividend increases every week. I use several different resources to come up with a list of dividend increases for the week. I then narrow the list down to include only these companies that have a minimum streak of annual dividend increases. In this case, I focus on companies that raised dividends for at least a decade. There were...

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The goal of every dividend investor is to one day accumulate a portfolio of income producing stocks, which would throw off a large amount of dividends every month. The magic point is where the dividend income exceeds the expenses of the dividend investor. At the dividend crossover point your dividend income meets or exceeds your expenses. For many dividend investors, this is the point synonymous...

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