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5 Reasons You Fail to Reach Your Savings Goals

If you want to succeed at reaching your financial goals, it's important to figure out why you can't save and address those issues.

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5 Reasons You Fail to Reach Your Savings Goals

If you want to succeed at reaching your financial goals, it's important to figure out why you can't save and address those issues.

Allison Martin

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Are You a Slave to Your Spending?

Every day you make financial decisions that choose between lifestyle today versus financial freedom tomorrow. Here's how to tell which path you're on.

Todd Tresidder

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How to Pick a Debt Payoff Strategy

Trying to find the debt repayment plan that fits you best many not be strictly a dollars and cents proposition.

AJ Smith

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5 Ways Debt Is Holding You Back

Living debt-free offers perks that go beyond not fretting about how you'll pay the bills this month. Here are some of the ways bills tie you down.

Gerri Detweiler

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How Should I Use My Bonus?

If you are lucky enough to work for a company that pays you a bonus, here's how to maximize this extra money.

AJ Smith

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How Debt Can Actually Lower Your Taxes

Debt is not necessarily the most terrible thing ever. Sometimes, debt is a good thing. It can even help you save money on your taxes.

Christine DiGangi

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We Went to War With Our Neighbors & Now My Wages Could Be Garnished?

A reader wrote to ask whether her salary might be garnished as a result of a judgment against her husband in a civil suit. The answer: It depends.

Gerri Detweiler

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4 Signs You're in Real Financial Trouble

Sometimes it's easy to ignore the signs of financial trouble, but we do so at our own peril. Here are clues that you're in too deep (and how to fix it).

AJ Smith

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