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… it is clear that many situations are easily prevented. SPEND LESS THAN YOU EARN. Common sense, yes? Unfortunately, the old saying that “common sense is not so common” rings loud and true in personal finance as in life.

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Internet TV For Finance Junkies

For all you finance junkies out there with high-speed internet access, you might want to check out this post on the CurrencyTrading.net website that was recommended to me. “Must-See Investing TV: 20 Free Online TV Channels for Finance …

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Choosing Your First Credit Card

If you are a first year college student at a university, you probably get at least 5 opportunities a day to get a credit card. If you have resisted that free t-shirt or frisbee, good for you. You should base getting your first card on …

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The week’s 10 best Personal Finance stories: March 17-21 (Market Watch)

In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of March 17-21:

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County finance director selected to teach course (Anderson Independent-Mail)

Anderson County Finance Director Gina Humphreys has been selected by the South Carolina Association of Counties to teach the Public Budgeting Course for its Institute of Government (IOG) program.

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QIB to finance water desalination project (Gulf Times)

Staff Reporter QIB will finance the Qatar Electricity and Water Company’s (QEWC) Ras Abu Fontas A1 (RAF A1) water desalination plant project through a fully shariah-compliant, Istisna-Ijara, alongside a conventional tranche.

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Property finance firm revenues hit $14.8m (Gulf Daily News)

MANAMA: Reef Real Estate Finance Company has doubled its operating revenues from BD2.7 million in 2006 to BD5.5m ($14.8m) last year. This was announced yesterday after the company’s second annual general meeting for shareholders at the Gulf Hotel.

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Brazilian State Bank to Finance 50% of Cesp Sale, Estado Says (Bloomberg.com)

March 22 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s state-owned development bank, known as BNDES, will finance as much as half of the purchase price of electricity utility Cia. Energetica de Sao Paulo , the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported.

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A sensible amendment to the Electoral Finance Act

While I support the Electoral Finance Act as an improvement on the old law, there were always going to be problems with it and one of the problems is that the financial agents of parties and third parties are required to put their …

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Norby: campaign finance docs are ‘fixed’

I’m late on this one…but thought I would catch up with the Supe Chris Norby-homeless-campaign finance-marital problems story… Norby was caught trying to charge $340 for a one-week stay at the Fullerton Inn to his campaign account. …

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