Japan Travelog. Part 1

My wife is from Japan, two of our four children were born there, and I have spent about 10 years there in total. That makes it an important country for us to visit, which we are doing again for the first time since COVID came...

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Managing Your Credit Card Usage

Emily Emily sat at her kitchen table, staring at the third credit card bill. It was maxed out, just like the other two. Overwhelmed and angry at herself, panic started to creep in. How did she end up in this situation? She used to pay off...

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What is Net Worth?

And Why does it Matter? “I demand the sum of… one million dollars.” A million dollars may not mean as much as it did when Dr. Evil* came of age in the 1960s. Even so, it is a significant threshold that continues to be a target for...

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