UPDATE: The $25 bonus is no longer available for this card but it’s still one of the best cash rewards credit cards out there! I keep the Best Cash Rewards Credit Cards updated regularly. One of the cards added after it was first published was the TrueEarnings® Card from Costco and American Express. Details of [...]

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My favorite article this week is Every Penny Counts at The Dollar Stretcher. (Found on StumbleUpon early this morning when I couldn’t sleep.) Whenever my friends and family downplay the results of saving a little money here or there, I almost always respond with “What if you invested that money for 40 or 50 years?” [...]

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My Advice for Sarah Palin

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Photography:Sarah Palin in Kuwait 2 by asecondhandconjecture Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt been inundated with the buzz about the new Republican VP nominee, Sarah Palin. Regardless of what political party you belong to, there are financial lessons that you can take away from the Palin family. Financial Advice for the [...]

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Tomorrow is the last day that our nanny will be working at our house full time. She watches our boys. She does our laundry. She cooks our dinner. And starting next week, we are on our own! She’s still going to watch our 11-month-old for 10 hours a week, but it won’t be at our [...]

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Ask Madison: Reader Mail

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I love replying to each and every one of you. Although, as some of you noticed, and I admitted recently on twitter, I really suck at email! I’m not sure why, but I often like to think about a topic for awhile before I respond. And then I find that after I finally reply with [...]

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