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		<title>Your Credit Card Company&#8217;s Website is NOT Secure!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve heard this a few times recently: that the homepage of your credit card company is not secure because the URL doesn&#8217;t begin with https://
Unfortunately, this rumor has been perpetuated by people who know just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be right 100% of the time.
While it&#8217;s true that looking for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I can only list my personal salary on a credit card application&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This myth probably causes people more grief that many of the others.  This probably originates from the daunting paragraphs at the bottom of credit applications which demand that each of your statements be entirely true.
There are two truths that can easily dispel this myth:
Truth #1: It is in the credit card company’s best interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I bought a house/car/boat/etc but I cant make the payments. I&#8217;ll just send the lender the keys and let them take it&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://financemaze.com/index.php/archive/myth-6-i-bought-a-housecarboatetc-but-i-cant-make-the-payments-ill-just-send-the-lender-the-keys-and-let-them-take-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First I have to make a distinction on this myth which often leads to making this problem much, much worse.  Often, people in this situation confuse the business they bought the item from with their lender.  
While it is true that more and more dealerships are offering in-house financing programs, often the business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It makes more fiscal sense to be 100% debt free than to carry some debt. &#8220;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the biggest myth in all of personal finance.  It is the biggest lie, it is the most well known, and it harms the most people.
There is no reason not to have any debt today.  Centuries ago, you might have been sold into slavery if you had a significant amount of debt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If I move all my credit card debt to a HELOC or consolidate it into my refi, I&#8217;ll save a ton of money and the payments will be lower&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://financemaze.com/index.php/archive/5-myth-if-i-move-all-my-credit-card-debt-to-a-heloc-or-consolidate-it-into-my-refi-ill-save-a-ton-of-money-and-the-payments-will-be-lower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with any credit card debt solution, there are conditions that need to be met in order for this to work correctly.  Of course, the biggest one is that you absolutely must stop charging things to your credit cards.  Financial responsibility is the only way to solve financial problems, no matter what strategy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Debit Cards Should be your Second Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the newest inventions in the banking world is the use of bank cards (formerly an ATM card) as a kind of credit card.  The idea is that you can use your debit card just like a credit card, except that it is connected to money you already have in your account, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I need to cancel some of my unused credit cards to get a better loan.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://financemaze.com/index.php/archive/myth-2-i-need-to-cancel-some-of-my-unused-credit-cards-because/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 04:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This myth is a long standing one among consumers of credit. The basic premise is that there is some magic number of accounts that you need to have in order to receive good credit. This simply isn&#8217;t true.
For example, I once worked with a real estate guru who had over 200 accounts on his credit [...]]]></description>
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