June 2010

The Worst Financial Decision of My Life

June 30, 2010

I have having an extremely bad car relationship right now and we are about to break up! I am using DINKS as a creative outlet to release my anger. It is a healthy alternative to keying my own car, or setting it on fire to collect the insurance money. Buying my car in 2007 was [...]

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Book Giveaway: “The Fearful Rise of Markets”

June 29, 2010

Hey Dinks! Got another book giveaway for you.  We haven’t read it ourselves yet, but we’ll share part of the press release down below so you can get a feel for what you’d be in store for. And we’re giving out THREE of these!  Scroll down to see how to enter… The Fearful Rise of [...]

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What Makes a Good Credit Card?

June 28, 2010

As you know from reading our DINKs Blog that I am not a big fan of credit cards due to bad past experiences. However, having a good credit rating is very important for life events such as buying a home, renting and apartment, leasing a car, and getting a new job.  Although there are alternatives [...]

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Weekly Recap: Made in China

June 25, 2010
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Happy Friday DINKS!  As we get ready for the weekend we will discuss how we spend our (hard) earned money…we are discussing our material possessions. This leads to a discussion about a blossoming economy that many of us may, or may not, be familiar with. For many years China has been a manufacturing and production [...]

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Getting Ready for the Market to Recover

June 24, 2010
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As the market starts to slowly recover and we are seeing positive signs of growth.  What does that mean for us as investors? Well, it means that now is the time to sell our fixed income investments and buy into growth investments. Fixed income investments such as bonds move in the opposite direction of the [...]

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DINKS: Smart or Selfish?

June 23, 2010

I am 29 years old and I am a DINK.  I am in a dual income no kids relationship.  I enjoy working and I enjoy spending my money on clothes, trips, and (more recently) my car.  However, as I get closer to becoming 30 years old (in October) I am starting to ask myself…Do I [...]

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The Credit Card Game

June 22, 2010
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How can you select the credit card that is best for you? Let’s play a game.  Look through your wallet and see what credit cards you have.  Do you have more than one VISA or MasterCard? If so, ask yourself…”Why did I choose this card?” As North American’s we live in the credit world of [...]

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What Type of Investor are You?

June 21, 2010
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I am a balance investor. This means that ideally I should have a 60/40 split of growth and income in my retirement portfolio. Currently this is exactly what I have although previously it was split the other way. In summer of 2007 I changed the focus of my portfolio to fixed income such as mortgage [...]

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Weekly Recap: The BP Oil Spill

June 18, 2010
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Happy Friday DINKS! We hope you all had a great week.  Our weekly roundup discusses one of the biggest news stories to ever spill over throughout the media; the BP oil spill in the Golf Coast. I chose to write about this topic not necessarily because it is directly related to finance, but because of [...]

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Make a Balance Transfer Card Work for You

June 17, 2010
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What’s a Balance Transfer Credit Card? Balance transfer cards are a special type of credit card that offers a very low or 0% interest rate. That means you can keep a balance on a transfer card without having to pay a penny in interest, in some cases. The most common way to use them is [...]

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