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How to Conquer Your Fear of Investing

Writing for Kiplinger.com last month, Erin Burt laid out some tips to help conquer your fear of investing. This article is specifically aimed at those who are nervous about getting started in the...

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Tags: basics, investing
The Compound Return Marathon: Which Retirement Strategy Will Win?

This is a guest post by G.E. Miller, head author of the personal finance blog 20-Something Finance. It’s a nice companion to my article this morning about the extraordinary power of compound...

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Tags: basics, retirement, investing, compound interest
The Extraordinary Power of Compound Interest

If you’re young, you may not think you need to open a retirement account. You probably think it’s easier to worry about it five years from now. Or ten. You’re wrong. No matter what your age, now is...

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Tags: basics, investing, compound interest
Daily Links and a Few Words About Ads

Aside from Bacon Salt, I don’t usually call attention to the advertising at Get Rich Slowly. However, for the next two weeks there will be a couple of ads in the sidebar that deserve an...

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Tags: spare change, administration
April is Financial Literacy Month

Though April 2008 isn’t officially National Financial Literacy Month in the United States, many organizations are still treating it as such. (Here in Oregon, for example, it is again statewide...

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Tags: news, administration
How to Turn $500 into $7 the Hard Way

Back in our young and foolish days, Kris and I bought an encyclopedia set from a door-to-door salesman. This was in 1995, at the very cusp of the digital age. We had been on the internet for about a...

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Tags: funny money, real-life, odds and ends, encyclopedia
The Best of Get Rich Slowly: March 2008

March was a monumental month in my life — it marked my move to full-time blogger. (Look at all that alliteration!) I spent the first few weeks of this new existence catching up on...

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Tags: administration
Drama in Real Life: Wrecked Rental

When we arrived in San Francisco on Thursday, I rented a car. It was the first time I’d ever done so — we’ve never used one on vacation, and this was my first business trip. The...

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Tags: insurance, real-life, choices, cars, car rental
Gourmet Cooking with 99-Cent Food?

Earlier this week, the always-interesting kottke.org pointed to a couple of pieces on 99-cent fine dining. First, from the March 21st episode of National Public Radio’s Day to Day, comes a...

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Tags: food, choices, frugality, news
A Meeting of Minds: Ten Personal Finance Bloggers Talk About Money

Yesterday I attended a workshop in San Francisco devoted to personal finance and personal finance tools. This gathering — sponsored by Strands, Expensr, and NetworthIQ — brought together...

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Tags: odds and ends, news
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