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The Debt Crisis Isn’t Over Yet

Posted in Credit/Debt, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

If you’re like me, you may have tuned into your media sources this morning thinking there would be new headlines replacing the rhetoric of the past months on deadlines, defaults, and a dollar crisis. I know I’ve had enough of the showmanship, and the analysis of who ‘won’ or ‘lost,’ as if we’re all not [...]

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Just Smell, Don’t Ingest…

Posted in Financial Planning, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The idiom of life can be summed up in the creed of Walter Hagen “Don’t hurry, don’t worry, you’re only here for a short visit, so be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” Or as one of my more direct clients put it “enjoy life now ‘cause you’re dead for a really long [...]

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Planning Ahead: A Survival Strategy

Posted in Estate Planning, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The death of a spouse is one of the most traumatic events most people ever have to face. The necessary and inevitable grieving period immediately following such a loss is not the time to deal with difficult and often irreversible financial decisions. However, unless those considerations have been mapped ahead of time, the surviving spouse [...]

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Debt and Uncertainty

Posted in Credit/Debt, tagged , , , , , , , on August 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

During the prior Bush administration, long before the 2008 financial meltdown and the subsequent Great Recession, I began to listen to the national deficit warnings from David Walker, our former US Comptroller General. David Walker’s passion on getting the word out on our growing national debt prompted him to start the Comeback America Initiative. The [...]

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Daddy’s Little Girl Learns a Money Lesson

Posted in Kids and Money, tagged , , , on August 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In many ways I guess I’m just like any other father. If you’re the father of a little girl she’s probably the apple of your eye. Good thing for me I’ve got two eyes. I’ve got two little girls who clearly are my little apples. Watching both of our girls grow up has been an interesting [...]

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