Bad Financial Management and The Mortgage Meltdown

Who is to blame for the subprime lending mess? Is it the borrowers who have been remiss with their financial management responsibilities? The lenders who should know better than to give consumers who haven’t been disciplined about their financial tracking — the rope to hang themselves with? Could there be something or someone else at fault?

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Personal Financial Tracking and Four Steps to Establishing and Achieving Personal Financial Goals

It is said that “people never plan to fail; they just fail to plan.” It can also be said that setting a detailed goal is far different than merely aspiring for something. Getting out of debt, buying a new home, or creating a work/life balance requires a clear strategy…

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Financial Planning for Success in Three Steps

Last week, we published Aaron Patzer’s Three Principles of Personal Finance in a three-part series. We welcome your comments. And if you found the article useful, we hope you’ll forward, Digg, or share the article so others get the message: it can be simple to manage your money well.

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Financial Management - A Young Professional’s Car Buying Guide

Buying a car is no small feat, as you’ve probably already experienced. New, used, leased or bought, you’re forking over a sizable amount of cash. Putting a new ride in your garage will cost a lot more than you think, so we’re here to help you save some money in that process.

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Tracking Finances: Riding the Dot-Com Bubble

Tracking finances is something that we care about here at Mint. Learn more about tracking finances in our blog article index.

In the late 90’s when the world was ablaze with dotcom millionaires and it looked as though the stock market could make me wealthy too, I bought a lot of technology stocks — including some [...]

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