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For many, loans for college pay off in trouble
Tribune staff reporterIt's a decision filled with daydreams and nightmares. As students ponder what to say in response to the college acceptance letter they've received, their imagination might flit from parties and a glorious career to a noose of suffocating college loan...Tags: Loans, Health, Finance, Education, Career and Workplace
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Tags: Chicago, Education, Chicago Tribune, Retirement, Career and Workplace
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Gradual retirement may not be key to happiness
Tribune staff reporterAsk a Baby Boomer what his or her retirement plan is, and you are likely to hear: "Work forever." It's a standing joke in a generation that includes many who lived a little too much for today and not enough for tomorrow. With more than 70 million Baby...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Health and Safety at School, Health, Career and Workplace, Research
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Take steps now to reduce taxes
Tribune staff reporterThis is the time of year when taxpayers pull out the rule book that guides them in making last-minute moves before year-end to reduce their income tax bill. The summary: Do whatever you can to delay receiving income for the year, and hunt for whatever...Tags: Vehicles, Finance, Financial Planning, Surgery, Charles B. Rangel
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Second guessers hurt themselves
Tribune staff reporterSometimes you just can't win. Lately that's been the case for people who own mutual funds that invest in stocks. If you have the average fund that invests in large U.S. company stocks, you probably have lost about 6 percent of the money that was in...Tags: Stock Market, Tourism and Leisure, Morningstar Incorporated, Casino and Gambling, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Emerging markets on the bubble
a Your Money columnistYou have to love emerging market stocks. After all, they are up more than 40 percent for the year -- an even more tantalizing return than the 31.6 percent average for each of the last five years. But should you love them and leave them? Analysts are...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Inflation and Deflation, Federal Reserve, Stock Market, T. Rowe Price
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Mending your 401(k): Wise choices -- and saving more -- can pay off
Tribune staff reporterLet 2008 be the year you finally carry through on your promises to pay more attention to your 401(k) retirement savings plan at work. If you are like most people, you have had plenty of good intentions. You have promised yourself that you will save more...Tags: Stock Market, 401K, Finance, Retirement, Stock Broking
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IRAs can help reduce tax bite
Tribune staff reporterQ: I'm in my 40s and work for a company that went private last year. I had been buying stock in the company, and because of the deal, I ended up with a lot of cash. I'm worried about what this will do to my taxes. Is there anything I can do about it? I...Tags: Labor Legislation, Wages and Pensions, Retirement, Career and Workplace, Companies and Corporations
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How housing ills infected the economy
Your Money columnistThe problems in the housing market were supposed to stay there. Perhaps they would be a nightmare for some homeowners, but not for the economy in general. Or at least that's what most of Wall Street was espousing until July. Yet, it has become clear that...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., BNP Paribas, Federal Reserve, Loans, Sales
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It's not too late to open an IRA, and save for life
Tribune staff reporterMillions of Americans filed their taxes last week, and many missed the opportunity to open an IRA and stash money away for retirement. They may have flirted with the idea of funding an individual retirement account, and then discarded the idea as the...Tags: Stock Market, T. Rowe Price, Retirement, Career and Workplace, Stock Broking
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If you must pick stocks, know when to sell
Tribune staff reporterQ: I am 24 and have been saving in my 401(k) for about a year, but I find mutual funds boring. So I started paying attention to stocks. I discovered that I was good at spotting those that would do well. For a while, I just made a mental note of stocks I...Tags: Stock Market, 401K, Garmin Ltd., Morningstar Incorporated, Exxon Mobil Corporation
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