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Money Smart Week – The Top 10 Reasons You Need to Take Advantage of Financial Education

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This is going to be very simple.  As I said in last week’s post, April 21-28 is Money Smart Week! Here’s the Top 10 Reasons You Need to Take Advantage of Financial Education: 1)  Learn how to save some M-O-N-E-Y – it’s a lot easier than you think! 2)  Stop you from making Dumb Mistakes [...]

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Financial Mom Money Smart Week Classes – April 21-28, 2012

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Warning! What follows may change your financial life forever!  Money Smart Week is starting this Saturday in Wisconsin and many other states across the nation. Money Smart Week is one of my favorite weeks of the year.  Free financial education on topics ranging from how to save money on your groceries to how to be [...]

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Money Smart Week: October 8-15

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October 8-15 is Wisconsin’s Money Smart Week. Money Smart Week in Wisconsin is sponsored by the Chicago Federal Reserve and the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions. This year we have an abbreviated calendar of events, a transition used to introduce the move to a nationwide week of free financial literacy, starting in April of 2012. [...]

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Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University – Week 5 Credit Sharks in Suits

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All of the lessons in Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University are full of practical advice, but the Week 5 lesson, Credit Sharks in Suits, comes straight from Dave’s personal experience with debt collectors.  Dave also debunks the ideas of what most people think the FICO score is.  And even includes some great advice on what [...]

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You’ve Got a Friend in Me

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I know I’m aging myself here, but I’ll go there and admit I grew up listening to James Taylor, and loving his song “You’ve Got a Friend.”  There is just something about that song that makes you feel so loved.  I have been very visibly reminded of what’s really important in life in the last [...]

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The Biggest Mistakes Investors Make (Part 1 of a Series)

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In order to win the Monopoly game, you have to have a strategy.  You need to have a plan, and stick to it, to be successful at Monopoly.  Today I am starting a series on The Biggest Mistakes Investors Make, because I see investors making these mistakes over and over again, which feeds into the [...]

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