The BlueCollarDollar explains the complicated world of personal finance, retirement planning, living with the money you earn, handling your investments (mutual funds, bonds), focusing on your retirement planning (401(k)s, 403 (b)s, IRAs, Roths), protecting yourself with insurance (home, auto, life, health), the how-to on buying a home, and controlling debt.

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• The Right Investment for Your Age?
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• The Unkindest Cut
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• Your Credit Score Social Security Reform Q & A
• Five Tax Moves for your Tax Deferred Plan
• How well do you know your finances? Part One
• How well do you know your finances? Part Two
• How well do you know your finances? Part Three
• Avoid an IRS audit
• Five ways to stay on your vacation budget.
• Healthy returns for CDs.
• Marriage plans involve money.
• Inheritances, Windfalls, and Money from Heaven
• Special Report On Poverty: Farewell Mollie Orhsansky
• Special Report On Poverty: Poverty in America
• Special Report on Mortgages: Return to Lender
• Special Report on Mortgages: Searching with Credentials
• Special Report on Mortgages: Losing Proposition
• Financial ABCs - Age, Balance, and Continuity.
• New Pension Laws, part one and two
• Pensions: How to increase Personal Retirement Savings.
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• Making a Will: Estate Planning
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  Credit and Debt Management

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Retirement Planning Books and Investment Guides

• What is a mutual fund?
• What is an IRA?
• What is an 401(k)?
• What is a Roth?
• What is a Roth IRA?
• What is an Index Fund?
• The Right Investment for Your Age
• Defined Contribution Questions
• Clearing the Confusion: IRA or Roth IRA?
• Do you invest using dollar cost averaging?
• What isWhat is compound interest?
• What is net asset value?
• Investing for Value?
• Investing for Growth?
• Social Investing
• A Look at Small Caps
• Your ETF: An Opinion
• Essential Retirement Planning Knowledge
  • Retirement Planning at 20
  • Retirement Planning at 30
  • Retirement Planning at 40
  • Retirement Planning at 50
• Working After Retirement?
• Greening a BlueCollarollar Investor
• Annuities: A New Idea?
• Taxes and Retirement Planning
• Tax efficiency of mutual funds.
• Five tax moves
• IRA to a Roth Conversion
• Tax breaks on a Roth 401(k)
• Mutual Fund companies make assumptions

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• You Inner Financial Planner.
• Soft money.
• Benefiting from herd mentality?
• Mutual Funds are Fine
• Investment Planning for an inheritance
• Hiring a financial planner?
• The Hedge Funds Influence
• Do you IRA?
• New retirement strategy
• Teaching Young Investors: an Opinion
• Valuation of Your Mutual Fund
• Directed trading is illegal.
• What is a hard close?
• Soft Money Revisited
• Fresh Pricing for Mutual Fund
• Exchange Traded Funds or ETFs
• Slotting Fees for 401(k) plans?

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  • Tweaking Your Portfolio: Lifestyle Investing and Asset Allocation.
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  Bonds

  • Investing in Bonds
  • Bond Fund Primer
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  • Savings bonds
  • Bond Glossary

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    • Life Insurance
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      • Protecting the Uninsured
      • Health on the Bargaining Table.
      • Truly Disabled.
      • Disability Insurance Primer
      • Defined Health Plan
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      • 2006 Home Insurance Review
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      • Annuities
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