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This may not be of value to very many, but for those few it may be VERY valuable. For those with a “traditional” IRA or a “rollover” IRA, you may be one of the people that its VERY valuable for.

I’ve been a big fan of Mint.com ever since I first heard of it. They’ve been in the news lately since they’ve announced that they are being purchased by Intuit for $170 million dollars. While many people have congratulated them on creating a great product and now reap the financial benefits of it. [...]

In talking to my father the other day, he mentioned he had a large CD that was about to mature, and wanted to build a portfolio of stocks to beat the interest rate he was getting. There are two nice things about this portfolio.

We get to start from scratch with a clean slate and [...]

So that’s the minimum. If you do these two things, you will be way ahead of most other Americans, and much better off when it comes time to retire. If you have any questions about anything in the article, feel free to post them in the comments, and I will get back to you with an answer.

If I were still an eBay investor, I’d be content to know that the Skype acquisition didn’t turn out to be a big negative, and hopefully the company can re-focus on its core business. Four years of holding onto a company, and dumping it for what you paid for it is a decent situation in these times we are in.

I was reminded this morning, that when I went thru last week’s update on my stock holdings, that I left out one of the purchases that I had the most confidence in working out over the long run. Ford! I bought shares of Ford back on June 11th for a little bit [...]