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188- Watch Out for Your Stimulus Spending High
We have all experienced it one time or another in our lives. The joy of eating six Oreos or a quart of ice cream in one sitting. The...
Harry N. Stout
Mar 24, 20213 min read
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176- Pitfalls of Making Minimum Payments
Do you only make minimum payments on your credit cards? Do you occasionally miss a payment? Do you know how much these actions will cost...
Harry N. Stout
Feb 12, 20213 min read
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174- New Book Looks to Save Households $600 Per Year
The FinancialVerse Guide to Savings – 600 Practical Cash Saving Ideas, the fourth release in the FinancialVerse series of personal...
Harry N. Stout
Feb 8, 20211 min read
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166- The FinancialVerse 2021 Money Calendar: A Month-by-Month Guide for Your Financial Year
What financial actions should you take in the next year to get better organized? There is so much you could do to make your financial...
Harry N. Stout
Jan 20, 20218 min read
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162- Budgeting In Uncertain Times
How do you prepare a budget in today’s uncertain times? This is the question I received from a subscriber just before the holiday break....
Harry N. Stout
Jan 6, 20215 min read
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160- Ten Good Money Habits: Part 2
This is the second part of the two-part post on developing good money habits. It was developed in response to a subscriber’s request for...
Harry N. Stout
Dec 30, 20204 min read
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142- Making the Most of Your Financial Options in 2020
Written by: Michele Burkholder, Founder of The Burkholder Team It’s that time of year. The leaves are starting to turn colors, my morning...
Harry N. Stout
Oct 28, 20204 min read
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140- Is it Time to Rethink Your Financial Values?
One of the frequent questions I get asked is given the pandemic, should a household rethink their basic financial values? I believe that...
Harry N. Stout
Oct 21, 20205 min read
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137- Seventeen Minutes Per Day to a Better Financial Life
As I wrote in the FinancialVerse – A Common Sense Approach for Your Money, there are 10 Must Do’s to manage your financial life. The...
Harry N. Stout
Oct 9, 20205 min read
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120- How Does Your Spending Compare to Others?
How does your spending compare to others? What does it cost you to live? How much do people spend to live each year? Is there a baseline...
Harry N. Stout
Aug 14, 20203 min read
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116- Have You Done Your Annual Credit Card Review?
Today, given you are likely spending more time at home, I wanted to ask you if you have done your annual credit card review? Yes, just...
Harry N. Stout
Jul 31, 20204 min read
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94- The COVID-19 Normal: New Principles for Your Money
A lot is changing in our economy. As we emerge from the pandemic, we are going to see permanent changes in how business is conducted,...
Harry N. Stout
May 27, 20204 min read
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89- Fixing Your Financial Foundation
Today is an update of a 2019 piece I wrote about what you need to do to fix your financial foundation to enable you to live through the...
Harry N. Stout
May 8, 20204 min read
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83- Financial Adulting: The Top 5 Things to Know
What is the Adulting Stage of a person’s financial life? What knowledge, skills and lessons should be learned by the time an individual...
Harry N. Stout
Apr 22, 20203 min read
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82- Finding Cash in a Crisis
We got a note from a subscriber asking if I could provide some ideas on how to find sources of cash during this crisis. I fully...
Harry N. Stout
Apr 17, 20204 min read
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77- How to Improve Cash Flow: Better Manage Your Debt
As I write this post, interest rates for benchmark US Government debt securities are continuing to decline to historically low levels. At...
Harry N. Stout
Apr 1, 20203 min read
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60- What Low Interest Rates Mean to You
As I begin this post, I want you to know that it is not intended to be a complete primer on interest rates and their impact on your...
Harry N. Stout
Jan 31, 20204 min read
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59- Credit Scoring is Changing – Are You Impacted?
In Chapter 3 of my book The FinancialVerse – A Common Sense Approach for Your Money, I discuss the reality that you need to know the...
Harry N. Stout
Jan 29, 20202 min read
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16- Five Ways to Prepare for Economic Bad News
There are certain truths or realities in the FinancialVerse. Here are some of them: What goes up may not go up forever – like the stock...
Harry N. Stout
Aug 9, 20193 min read
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4- Can Debt Be Your Friend?
In the last few months we have seen reports that the U.S. Government’s outstanding debt has exceeded $22 trillion, student loans now...
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Jun 19, 20196 min read
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