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April, 2012  // Posts published in April, 2012

30 Jan Posted by in Economy, Personal Finance | Comments Off

The Best Retirement Plan for Entrepreneurs

Retirement Plan used to be, you had to give up either savings or flexibility to create a tax-deferred nest egg. Not any more. By Charles Farrell | Jan 27, 2012 Building your retirement plan while you’re also trying to build your business can be tough. Many retirement plans don’t allow entrepreneurs to put much money ...

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30 Jan Posted by in Economy, Markets, Personal Finance | Comments Off

Creating a Company Vision

Do you have a vision of where your company will be in three years? In five? 10? Here’s a sure-fire way to get clear about the future you want. By Ari Weinzweig | Feb 1, 2011 Hardly a day passes without someone asking me for business advice. It might be a student or a struggling ...

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25 Jan Posted by in Economy, Real Estate | Comments Off

Porsche Building – At planned Sunny Isles Beach condo, cars and drivers ride elevator home

The latest twist on designer parking garages: a Jetsonesque elevator that whisks residents to their condos while they are still in the driver’s seat. By Lidia Dinkova Pull over into the designated space. Turn off the engine. And enjoy the oceanfront view as you escalate in a glass elevator that takes you, while you are ...

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24 Jan Posted by in Economy, Marketing, Personal Finance | Comments Off

How to develop a killer marketing plan

How to develop a killer marketing plan

By Melinda Emerson on January 20, 2012 If it has been a long time since you looked at your business plan and now you’re ready to kick off your business for the new year, here’s a tip: Start with the marketing plan first. There are two reasons for this: 1) You must know who is ...

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20 Jan Posted by in Economy, Personal Finance | Comments Off

Portfolio Management Tips For Young Investors

I would like to thank Marc Davis for this post and information herein. Too many young people rarely, or never, invest for their retirement years. Some distant date, 40 or so years in the future, is hard to imagine. However, without investments to supplement retirement income, if any, retirees will have a difficult time paying ...

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19 Jan Posted by in Economy, Markets | Comments Off

World Bank warns on risk of global recession

By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney January 18, 2012: 6:51 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The World Bank Wednesday slashed its 2012 growth forecasts for both emerging and developing economies from its estimates of only six months ago, and warned the world is on the cusp of a new global recession that could be as bad ...

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18 Jan Posted by in Economy, Personal Finance, Real Estate | Comments Off

A market in real estate fraud

A market in real estate fraud

Some say today’s real estate market conditions are ripe for a reprise of some of the worst behavior of the boom and bust. Could today’s seductive conditions in the housing market — severely marked-down prices, record low interest rates and hundreds of thousands of foreclosures waiting to be resold — be breeding new generations of ...

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18 Jan Posted by in Economy, Real Estate | Comments Off

South Florida’s housing bubble compared to the nation’s.

South Florida really should have seen this coming: a look back at how our housing bubble compared to the nation’s. South Florida’s housing crash may be old news, but recent data offer some valuable perspective. The Federal Housing Finance Agency maintains appreciation indices for metropolitan areas, which are similar to the famous Case-Shiller index but ...

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17 Jan Posted by in Economy, Markets | Comments Off

Miami Resort casino debate could become epic battle

As each of the state’s most powerful business and political interests line up to fight over the fate of destination Miami Resort Casino, emotional appeals for jobs will be pitted against emotional concerns about the future of Florida by Mary Ellen Klas TALLAHASSEE — Despite the promise of thousands of jobs and the millions of ...

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14 Jan Posted by in Real Estate | Comments Off

Psychology of Home: Why Where You Live Means So Much

Psychology of Home: Why Where You Live Means So Much

My house is a shrine to my homes. There’s a triptych of sunsets next to my bedroom door, dusk forever falling over the small Michigan town where I grew up, the beach next to my college dorm and Place de la Concorde in Paris, where I spent a cliché but nonetheless happy semester. And that’s ...

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