Kiplinger.com Highlights: November 2008
WASHINGTON (Business Wire EON) October 14, 2008 -- KIPLINGER.COM'S MAGAZINE CENTER
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Ahead
The Fannie Mae Trap
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/fred_ frailey.html
Bad Decisions in Bad Economic Times
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/bad_ decisions.html
Appraising the Home Appraisers
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/interview_home_ appraisers.html
Why Should Seniors Get the Discounts?
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/money_ ethics.html
Know When to Fold
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/when_to_ sell_stocks.html
A Tax Hat Trick for Health Accounts
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/hsa.html
Perks Galore for Home Buyers
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/home_buyer_ perks.html
The Tax Plans: Who Wins and Who Loses
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/mccain_obama_ tax_plans.html
Two Ways to Extend Health Insurance
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/mccain_obama_ health_plans.html
Improving Your Odds
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/discovering_ value.html
We'll Drink to That
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/drpepper_ snapple.html
Investing
7 Great Companies for $7 or Less
We think these stocks are under priced and undervalued, and could make you money down the road.
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/7_cheap_ stocks.html
Best of the Online Brokers
Fidelity, with a wide array of investment choices and a terrific Web site, takes top honors
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/best_online_ brokers.html
PLUS:
Invest with Your friends
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/online_ investing_networks.html
Pay Less Tax on Your Funds
How to avoid or postpone the tax on capital gains, and the funds that can help you do it.
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/tax_ efficient_funds.html
Beat the Rush to the Banks
The stocks are still risky, but a comeback is around the corner.
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ financial_stocks.html
Mutual Funds
This year's best newbies, by Russel Kinnel.
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/online _investing_networks.html
Those Bargain-Hunter Blues
Value investing is being put to the test. Yet some sharp managers have stayed on key.
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/value_ fund_managers.html
Swim Among the Water Stocks
Profit from companies that help purify and transport an increasingly precious liquid asset.
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/water_ stocks.html
Riding the Wave Up Overseas
Tocqueville International Value fund invests wherever misery is at its crest.
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ tocqueville_international_value.html
Money
Getting the Best Financial Advice
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ find-best-financial-adviser.html
Personal Service from Mass Merchants?
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ mass-merchant-brokers.html
A Teacher's Retirement Plan Flunks
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ teachers-retirement-plan-flunks.html
Plug Your Home's Costly Leaks
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ how-home-energy-audit-saves-money.html
SLIDE SHOW: What You Could Save on Home Energy Costs
http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/slideshows/slideshow_ pop.html?nm=home-energy-savings
Mom I Dropped My Laptop
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ help-college-students-address-first-financial-problems.html
Credit Card Q&A: Should I Cancel My 0% Card?
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ zero-percent-credit-card.html
A Tax Break for Insurance Stock
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ tax-break-for-insurance-stock.html
Ask Kim: Target Funds Fly Solo
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ ask-kimberly-lankford.html
Living
Live Debt Free
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ live-debt-free.html
SLIDE SHOW: 4 Steps to Stay in Control of Debt
http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/slideshows/slideshow_ pop.html?nm=4-Ways-Control-Debt
SLIDE SHOW: 5 Ways to Dig Out of Debt
http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/slideshows/slideshow_ pop.html?nm=5-ways-to-Dig-Out-Debt
What Kind of Spender Are You? PLUS: Take the Quiz
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ what-kind-of-spender-are-you.html
Confessions of a Debt Collector
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ confessions-of-debt-collector.html
What to Do Before Your Loan Resets
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/ prepare-for-a-mortgage-reset.html
SLIDE SHOW: Simple Tech
http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/slideshows/slideshow_ pop.html?nm=simple-tech
DRIVE TIME: It's All About the MPG
http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/car/archive/2008/car1002.html
LOWDOWN: What You Need to Know About Your Health Policy
http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/slideshows/slideshow_ pop.html?nm=HealthPrivacyLowdown
MY STORY: Scrambling to Avoid Foreclosure
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/10/ my-story-isacc-herndon.html
Business Resource Center
Employers to Shed More Jobs
http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/ archive/employers_to_shed_more_jobs_081003.html
Beef Up Bottom Lines with Commuting Programs
http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/recommend/ archive/2008/low_carbon_greentips.html
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