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Numberscruncher: The Blagojevich Family Clothing Budget

Ann Logue July 7, 2010 3

People who give personal finance advice tend to give the same advice over and over. That’s because it works. And one of the most basic ways to start getting a grip on your finances

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Numberscruncher: Neither Families Nor States Manage Their Budgets Well

Ann Logue March 23, 2010 4

Let’s just come right out and say it: most families do not do as good a job as they could with their finances.  So why do we hold them (i.e., us) out as paragons

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Numberscruncher: Wither the European Union?

Ann Logue February 16, 2010 3

Abraham Lincoln was born 201 years ago last week. He was America’s greatest president because he took charge in a time of crisis, a civil war that seems unimaginable in these days of splitting

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