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The Global Economic Crisis, For Dummies
You'd have to be hiding under a rock - or a large stack of couch cushions - to not know that the world economy is in some serious strife right now. Some of the world's biggest economies are in recession, including the U.S, the U.K Japan, parts of Europe and our own Pacific neighbour, New Zealand. Australia is not faring much better. While th...
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15 Money-Saving Tips
As every paper and website you've read this month has no doubt reminded you, times are tough. We wish we had a get-rich-quick scheme that would pay off your entire mortgage — but failing that, here's a list of easy substitutions that will help your family save a buck here and there. There's even a silver lining: many of these money-saving sub...
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The Accidental Entrepreneur
Sometimes, people start businesses the right way. I admire those people, slaving away in their cubicles, pilfering away savings for ten-plus years, until they can satisfy their bank manager that their business plan is good enough for a business loan. Or, they save enough to live for six months whilst they try to build a business (which we all know...
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Welcome to Work 2.0
My name is Téa Brennan, and I run a home-based web design studio. I have been asked to write about setting up a home-based business, and the challenges faced by parents who work at home. If you subscribe to my Twitter, you would be pretty correct in thinking that on a daily basis, I have several nervous breakdowns, a number of hissyfits and ver...
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The New Economics of Parenthood
Talk about money with parents of young children these days, and it's hard to find good news. Daily life keeps getting costlier, they say — schooling, doctors, mortgage payments. Even the best office jobs no longer come with the bonus schemes that had our parents living by golf courses by age sixty-five. People are concerned. Some are grateful...
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Show Me The Money!
After months of sombre talk about the need for Australians to buckle down and start scrimping and saving, the Government has made a stunning about-face. With the economy slowing faster than expected, Rudd and co. have decided to crack open the nation's piggy bank and send us out to spend, spend, spend. Yesterday they announced a $10.4 billion stim...
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This Little Piggy Beat The Credit Crunch
With the share markets currently resembling a roller-coaster ride, and worries about interest rates and the national economy causing levels of doom and gloom in households across the nation, Babble offers up three easy things, and three rather dramatic actions, families can try implementing when trying to do their bit for financial stability. Thre...
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