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Posts on ‘January 23rd, 2006’

Student Loans And More Importantly - Scholarships

My daughter is a Junior at St John’s University in New York City. I just checked her financial aid record and discovered that so far, it has cost over $82,000 to attend.
$82,000 THOUSAND DOLLARS!
$82,012.36 to be exact. And she still has at least one more year to go. The tuition is $24,400 per year (and [...]

How To Avoid Medical Collections

With medical collections costing doctors millions upon millions of dollars in unpaid bills and collection fees, many people have just one question: Who are these people who are trying to stiff the doctors who delivered them from great physical pain (or the flu, hypochondria, not-so-white-teeth, or a nose that didn’t look enough like Brad Pitt’s)?
Well, [...]

A Financial Analysis of Quilmes Industrial SA

The brewery industry encompasses many companies you have heard about, but other companies you have never had a chance to investigate. With market cap leaders such as Anheuser-Busch Companies or Molson Coors Brewing Company being the recognizable corporations in the United States, little attention is paid to other companies such as Quilmes Industrial SA (LQU). [...]

Point of Failure

If you have never forecasted your retirement to determine if you are saving enough, you should. There are a lot of tools available to help, but most of them are not any good.
It is suggested you need 80% of your income when you retire. I ran some basic numbers through for myself and [...]