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There are many roads to financial security, but whatever path you follow, there are some mandatory steps everyone ought to take along the way. Alexa von Tobel, founder of LearnVest.com, cuts through the thicket of advice to give us her essential keys to sound money management.
Imagine how empowering it would feel to spend your working hours doing a job that truly invigorates your mind, body and soul. To get there, you may well need to be willing to fire your boss -- But you can get there.
7 Financial New Year's Resolutions You Should Keep
12:40PM 12/29/2011

Every January, we plan to make changes, and we often don't succeed. Let's make this New Year's different: Here are seven fairly simple resolutions recommended by the financial experts for getting you on a firmer fiscal footing in 2012.

U.S. consumers' efforts to pay down their credit card debts continue. Outstanding U.S. consumer credit fell by $14.8 billion or at a 7.2 percent annual rate in September -- the eighth straight monthly credit decline, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced Friday.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg...
People frequently tell me they'd love to pay down debt using the snowball effect or the round robin strategy, but they just don't have the extra funds needed to pay off their cards. If you're having trouble finding the extra cash to pay down credit cards, it's time to do some soul searching and put...
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