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Triple My Money: How Long and What Does It Take?
You are probably familiar with the Rule of 72, which tells you when the one dollar you invest today will be worth $2 once you have a rate of growth. If your annual rate of return is R%, then it will take you (72/R) years to double your money. For instance, for a 6% return [...]
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Buy.com has ACP-EP 2GB USB 2.0 Mobile SwingDrive Flash Drive [Buy.com affiliate link] for $7.95 after $40 mail-in-rebate ($25 with original UPC label and $15 with photo copy). Both rebate offers expire on February 7, 2007. The listed prices of similar products from ACP-EP on Amazon.com are more than $20. So it could make a good product to sell on Amazon market place if you want to make a [...] Continue Reading…
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$100 Citibank e-Savings Bonus: Good News & Bad News
Got this offer in the email this morning.
First, the good news is you can get a $100 bonus if you open a Citi e-Savings account and fund the account with $5,000 before March 31, 2007. Conditions to qualify for the $100 bonus are:
$100 offer is only available for first-time Citibank deposit (checking or savings product) account customers, and will be paid only once to any individual. Persons who currently [...] Continue Reading…
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13 Most Overlooked Tax Deductions
A Kiplinger article, “The 13 Most Overlooked Tax Deductions,” gives a list of 13 deductions that we usually forget when filling our tax returns. Among The Unlucky 13 items, I found No. 12, Reinvested dividends, is one that I never heard of. I sold some mutual funds in the past and simply used the difference between the cost basis and the proceeds from the sale to determine the gain, [...] Continue Reading…
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Mutual Fund Portfolio Checkup
It has been more than a year since I reshuffled my mutual fund portfolio in 2005 when I dumped two small-cap funds and one bond fund. The only new fund I added in the past two years is ADVDX. Currently, I have a dozen funds in my taxable accounts and the asset allocation is as follows (obtained with Morningstar's Instant X-Ray): The investment style heavily tilts towards large-cap stocks, [...] Continue Reading…
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Buy.com has Connect3D 2GB Secure Digital Card [Buy.com affiliate link] for free after $50 mail-in-rebate with free shipping. The rebate expires on February 28th. Over at Amazom.com, they have H&R Block Taxcut 2006 Premium Federal + State [Amazon.com affiliate link] for $26.95 with free shipping. This deal, however, is not better than what you can get from Staples or Buy.com.Staples has PNY 1GB Attache USB Flash Drive for $4.98 after [...] Continue Reading…
