Growing up with very little, Tamara and her husband worked hard and found that saving came naturally to them.  But while saving money was a natural way of life, they didn’t have any structured savings plan. They invested in property and sold it for at a profit. This worked well for them, but they …

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If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that the passion and purpose behind it is to help people become their own Money Manager because Money Managers make the most!  And we just happen to believe that the more money you keep of what you make the more fulfilled, happy and …

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Why doesn’t that headline shock you? Maybe its because the Government has never been real good at keeping its side of a bargain. Maybe its because people misunderstood what Obamacare was really going to be. Or maybe, just maybe, it was intended to end up that way from the beginning. The facts are that government …

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Keys are unique…that’s what makes them key. Imagine a key that could open any lock or turn any tumbler!  Locks, keyholes and tumblers would become obsolete in a hurry. In our recent move to Southern Nevada from Oregon, we traveled over 1000 miles.  Many of those miles were through desolate high desert valleys found throughout …

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Upon a recent visit to a Government website I was greeted with this SYSTEM USE NOTICE: You are accessing a U.S Government Information system, which includes this computer, this computer’s network, all computers connected to this network, and all devices and storage media attached to this network or to a computer on this network. This …

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The recent suspension of Brian Williams from Nightly News for his tampering with the truth has been a breath of fresh air for many Americans.  But what about all the other “experts” out there who make a living telling lies? Maybe the money experts know you better than you know yourself?  Or perhaps they just …

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My friend Mike emailed me this past week about what former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in his book, “Shortly the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves.  They’ll only be able to parrot the information they’ve been given on the previous night’s news.” “Shortly” seems to have caught up with …

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Tunes are going through my head today and here’s why. By the time most Americans pay their taxes and the interest on their bills it leaves them with less than $20,000 to live on. Years ago John Folgarty astutely penned these words: “Long as I remember rain’s been comin’ down Clouds of mystery pourin’ confusion …

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It had been a long day in the second grade classroom of the underprivileged school where I had been the substitute teacher that day.  As we were in a scramble to bring the day to a close, the familiar “ding-ding-ding” came across the loudspeaker followed by the voice of the principal. Sweaty bodies quickly settled …

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