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Below is a link to an April 2008 article on investing from NPR’s Morning Edition.
It’s based upon interviews with David Swenson, manager of Yale University’s endowment and one of the world’s very best long-term investors.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89324244

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Today’s Wall Street Journal article “Digging Out of Medical Debt” by Stacey Bradford offers good advice to ease the pain of medical bills via “avenues every financially-struggling patient should pursue”.  Here’s a summary:
(1) Check for Errors – the nonprofit agency Medical Billing Advocates of America estimates 90% of the thousands of inpatient hospital bills contain [...]

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When writing a check to make a payment on a credit card account, DO NOT put the complete account number on the ‘For’ line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the [...]

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Instead of signing the back of your credit card, and giving a thief a model of your signature to copy, write “photo ID required” or “check photo ID”.
Hopefully, if your card is lost or stolen and someone tries to make a fraudulent purchase, a conscientious person at a cash register will ask for a photo [...]

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