Investing in gold and other precious metals is one of the best ways to maintain your footing in an otherwise unstable economy. But while gold, silver, platinum (and their lesser known cousins ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, and iridium) have maintained their status as solid investments, you need to be wary of unscrupulous dealers and the ...

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A month ago our real estate mortgages/debt/leverage looked like this: Property Financing Current Balance PITI ...

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Daytime Emmy Awards go well into the night Christian LeBlanc was the Daytime Emmy Awards 2009 winner for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work on "The Young and the Restless." Image from photobucket.com. Apparently airing the Daytime Emmy Awards 2009 Winners show at night was not a very good business decision for the ...

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Growing fast and furious Photo from money.cnn.com courtesy of Jollibee Foods. Though higher-end restaurants are struggling as people try to scrimp and save, fast food restaurants in the United States are doing as well as ever. In fact, more foreign fast food restaurants are opening locations in the United States, even during this recession. CNN Money wrote a ...

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A crime of a different color Image from wikispaces.com Most of the payday loan related crimes I write about involve petty thieves pointing guns in people’s faces and taking off with a bunch of cash. Today, however, I came across a payday loan crime of a different type. I don’t know if this guy was giving out fax ...

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