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[Before they find themselves in their own “War of the Roses” ]
Men receiving alimony from their wives; could this be a trend? As some women begin to out-earn their spouses, some men are asking for - and getting - alimony after a divorce.
Take the case of John David Castellanos - he played hunky attorney John Silva on The Young and the […]

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A recent study from the UK shows that more than three-quarters (76%) of bosses would not hire a female if they knew she would become pregnant within six months of starting the job (I think we can safely assume that these attitudes pervade in the good ole’ US of A too)!
The study found that during the […]

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I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news…
We’re all living longer (whoopee) but it’s going to get more expensive. At the rate we’re saving in this country, many of us are at risk of outliving our nest eggs (boo!). But there are some intriguing new financial products coming on to the market […]

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Sorry, serious post today… 
The Today Show recently reported that according to the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and it could steal the minds of one out of eight baby boomers. The report found there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in 2000, a number expected to grow to 454,000 new cases […]

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“Oops, I did it again”
 I was recently talking with a married friend whose husband works for a well-known technology company. As I told her about Pin Money Club, she was quick to assure me that she and her husband were financially set because they had most of their savings tied up in his employer’s stock -both in their 401(k) plan and […]

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Google, redux…
..A lot of my friends and family have asked me if there is now a buying opportunity in Google’s stock. That’s because Google is now trading ($526 as of this posting) well below the high it reached of over $700 late last year. Again, I don’t make specific investment recommendations, but I do have […]

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In Jonathan Clement’s Wall Street Journal column yesterday he describes research studies (supported by this author’s own anecdotal evidence) that show women invest more conservatively and turn over their investments less frequently. In one sweeping study, researchers show that men’s overconfidence (surprise, surprise) hurts their stock performance by 2.65% each year, while women only hurt their result […]

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I become a grownup…
In many ways, I am the poster child for Pin Money Club; I just made my first will after a mere 48 years on this earth. But I’m in good company, over half of all adult Americans also do not have a will. I suspect that the idea of our own mortality […]

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It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your ex’s are?
A reader recently asked if I could recommend an accountant to handle her “first post-divorce” tax filing. First, let me say that I don’t recommend specific professionals because I want to remain completely objective - my mission is to educate and motivate.
So in that […]

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Who’s on first? Let me have it with both barrels on this one…
Election fever has started in earnest - Wolf Blitzer is reporting the minutia of the campaign ad nauseum from CNN’s Situation Room (a little dramatic, eh)? as though his hair was on fire (which would make for pretty good TV cause he has […]

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