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Scariest Stocks
Before you invest in any of these stocks today you better do your homework. Most have increased dramatically in price over the past year and are rated poorly by the Motley Fool. They include Crocs, Amazon.com, Google, Goodyear, Blue Nile & XM Satellite Radio.
Junior Tycoons of Silicon Valley
These techies are worth tens of millions of dollars, sometimes more, at an age when many others are just starting to figure out what to do with their lives. The Internet has greatly accelerated the wealth creation phenomenon, producing a larger breed of multimillionaires even younger and richer than in the past. They are happy to be wealthy, of course, but many of these baby-faced technology tycoons often seem indifferent to the buying power of their money, at least at this stage of their lives. Instead, nearly all of them have chosen to throw themselves back into a start-up, not so much because they want a spectacular new home or a personal jet - though many of them do - but because they are in a competition with themselves and one another.
The $915 Billion Bomb in Consumers Wallets
Americans have record credit-card debt and banks are starting to sweat an uptick in default rates. Why some fear this could be the next subprime.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Working through the endless (and faceless) customer-service-rep phone trees, getting put on hold for what seems like hours, repeatedly complaining to unresponsive companies. At some point, almost everyone who has dealt with a customer-service issue has come close to reaching their breaking point. If calls to customer service go nowhere, take your complaint to the next level. Try thse five strategies to get a company's attention -- and get your dispute resolved.
Banks Play Tricks to Sweeten Their Pots at Your Expense
Here are 13 unlucky things your bank may be doing to make more money off of you.
How the Rich Raise Their Kids
It seems kids with lots of money can be challenging as far as parenting is concerned. The parents want the kids to grow up and have a lifestyle like theirs, but sometimes the kids aren't as motivated. The rich tend to supplement education with expensive enrichment activities, like music, riding and dance lessons. They take more vacations and tend to a lot of the kids values are more frequently left up to others to instill.
When It Takes a Miracle to Sell a House
According to lore, burying a statute of St. Joseph in the yard of a home for sale promises a prompt bid. With the worst housing market in recent years, the Catholic saint is enjoying a flurry of attention from desperate home-sellers.
Also: Sweet Deals on New Homes
6 Ways to Supercharge your Flexible Spending Account
A little knowledge and planning can keep you from wasting the money in your flexible spending account.
Millionaires in the Making
Meet Frank Furbeck & Trudi Morris. The are an engaged couple from Illinois who are state employees that don't live extravagntly or poorly. They carry no credit card, home or auto debt and saving all they can so Frank can retire in his early 50's. Will they get there? See what an expert says.
Most Expensive Cemeteries
Upside: A water view, beautifully manicured grounds and a slew of famous neighbors, for a fraction of what local condos cost. Downside: You're dead. No, you may not be able to live among the rich and famous, but you can afford to be dead among them. Here are some of the priciest cemeteries in America to be buried in.
Comfort Zone Investing: Survival of the fittest -- letting some banks fail
Three All-American stocks for portfolio fireworks
Michael Jackson fireworks, the workaholic
