My 5 Favorite NON-Personal Finance Blogs

February 4th, 2010

My RSS Feed is a cluster$#%@ of about 50 different sites and blogs that I follow. Yes, I am dying a slow death from information overload. But I just can’t close the door on my feeds!

Instead of patting the backs of my fellow personal financiers, I thought it would be fun to venture out a bit and list my five favorite procrastination stations… err, blogs, that I follow. I think you’ll find that a lot of these blogs, although not focused on the personal finance niche, can certainly have an indirect impact on your personal life, career, and your finances as a result.

Penelope Trunk – Brazen Careerist: Penelope Trunk fights a battle inside her head every day with all of the brutal details of her interpersonal successes and much more common failures that she’s had at work and in her family life. I don’t a

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Tags: Blogs, Finance Blogs

SOTU and State of Health Insurance Reform

February 3rd, 2010

Following last week’s State of the Union (SOTU) address, President Obama met with House Republicans for a brief interchange in which he emphasized bipartisanship. Both the speech and the meeting signaled the Obama administration’s change in emphasis away from healthcare reform and in the direction of the economy. However, a de-emphasis on healthcare reform does not mean that health insurance reform is off the table, as suggested by an Insurance & Technology report last week and reinforced by a conversation with Paul Keckley, executive director of Deloitte’s Center for Health Solutions.

Keckley notes that healthcare reform wasn’t even mentioned until about 25 minutes into the SOTU, a postponement which he believes was carefully calculated.

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Tags: State, State Health

Credit Repair Secrets

February 3rd, 2010

Credit repair secrets exist only because the credit repair companies don’t want you to know how easy it really is to correct your own credit yourself.  As long as you believe it is difficult, they can charge you hundreds if not thousands of dollars and gladly do it for you. 

Did you know that just using a credit repair company can severely damage your credit score for years?  In fact, credit counseling or even debt consolidation can also hurt you in credit scoring and all you are trying to do is be more responsible about your credit.  It doesn’t seem fair does it?  Unfortunately that is how the credit system is designed.

Many consumers who have gone to credit repair companies have bad experiences because the company didn’t even work on the file themselves but outsourced it to someone else.  The whole reason they can get away with this is hardly anyone educates themselves before handing all of their credit information over to someone they have never met.

Identity theft is another major problem in the World today and sadly it is growing so fast that no one can see an end in sight.  Think about who you are giving your personal documents to and think about who is getting all of your very sensitive information.  Here is another little secret, in as little as an hour you can easily protect yourself by placing a shield around all of your sensitive information that locks it in place so no one can see it without your permission.

So if you can learn how to take off things like charge offs and late payments from your credit report, is it possible to raise your credit score?  Actually that’s exactly what happens when you begin removing some of the negative items from your credit report. The more of thos

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Tags: Credit Repair, Credit Repair Secrets, Repair Secrets, Secrets

Car Insurance Coverage Savings: It Is In Finding The Best Quotes!

February 2nd, 2010

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Start with cheapest car insurance. Car Insurance Discounts is what every car owner wants to achieve. After all, who doesn’t want to get the best deals in town, right? When it is your car that is in focus, you should realize how important it is for you to have an Coverage policy that will protect your investment. After all, every state makes it a requirement and there are certain sanctions that you may face should you fail to comply.

Many people think that they can’t be given the chance to avail of the cheapest Automobile Insurance policies. But, they are utterly wrong. You too should understand that it is possible and it all depends on how well you search for the reliable car Insurance Coverage company. The

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Tags: Car Insurance, Insurance