Fuzzy’s Financial Blog

Just thought I would share a paper I wrote for a recent class I took. 
Nationalized health care in America is a good initiative because it covers everyone, increases available funds and provides basic healthcare facilities. Throughout one’s lifetime a person will become ill or injured and require medical treatment. America is the only industrialized nation […]

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It is possible you have been looking at your cable bill and wanting to trim the bill down. You then look online and watch a few shows on Hulu and think it would be great if you could watch your Hulu on your tv and just ditch the cable company. Well there are a few […]

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If you have a job that pays you biweekly it can be interesting paying bills. If you have bad habits like I used to have where one paycheck I would pay certain bills and the next paycheck I would pay the others and then forget which ones you paid the week previously there are things […]

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What is a CD Ladder? No, it is not one of the shelves for compact discs. A CD Ladder is a number of CD’s (Certificate of deposits) that are spaced out over a period of time to capture better interest and provide a realitively safe investment. Generally with a CD you can get a better […]

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could play the stock market without putting up a single penny and still make money off of it? Well you can with UpDown and Wall Street Survivor. Both allow you to play the fantasy stock market accounts, both have contests to win real money, and both allow you to […]

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Came across an article on Kiplinger today for Best 529 College-Savings Plans. While the best time to have hopped back into your childs 529 plan if you got out would of been at the bottom of the collapse try timing that and making sure you could survive without the money. Now would be the best […]

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While I have tried MS Money in the past I always had issues with it and my banking institutions. I could connect to some but not others, so trying to get everything in one spot. Now it appears MS Money is going away according to Tom over at The Sun’s Financial Diary in his post […]

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Cruising other peoples blogs I came across this article on FSA or Flexible spending accounts. Darwin’s Finance posted the article “How FSA Plan Account Contributions Can Save You Thousands“. It is a fairly well written article and is fairly in depth. I prefer HSA’s or Health Savings Accounts which you can’t mix with an FSA. […]

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Well Realty Income(O), which engages in the acquisition and ownership of commercial retail real estate properties in the United States, announced a dividend increase to $0.142375 per share from $0.1420625 per share. This is its 6th increase in the past year, and while small shows great hope for me at least.  Tom A. Lewis, Chief Executive […]

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I haven’t written in a while. Took a minor hit from the market fall. I had just hit making over $50 a month off of dividends in December and then in January I made $23. I now am back up to about $45 a month off of stock dividends. 3 of my 6 Prosper loans […]

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