This is an ongoing monthly update on how our equity investments are performing. Please see this background on the investment tool I developed and how I am using it to track our performance against a benchmark to measure our progress or lack thereof. The only equity investments not covered are: 1) my 401k which is ...

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The Great Health Insurance Odyssey Deciding upon a particular health insurance plan for you may seem like a difficult task. Go to the internet to get many quotes from various providers. All you need to do is give some basic information before you start getting quotes while at home. Regardless of what you think, this does not ...

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The Ceremony of your Life A wedding is always important, because it is a step that every couple looks to take with the intention of starting a new life. However the cost of weddings can be very high. The cost of the wedding may not be available to the couple. They may want to spend the money ...

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This post is from GRS staff writer April Dykman. Social psychologists have found that people tend to choose their significant other based on similarities—similar attitudes, values, and even similar names. Those findings would seem to suggest that people with similar spending habits would be attracted to each other, too. But a working paper published last year found ...

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How ’bout them Apples From the looks of Twitter, Facebook and Google trends, the Apple press conference, including the release of the iPad, is the only thing going on in the world today. Google news has stuff about a Toyota recall, Holocaust Remembrance Day and so forth, but it is clear that the Apple tablet computer ...

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