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| Get the Picture? | |
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| Family Economics | |
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| The Economy: How It Works and What It Means to You | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Economic Phenomena that Shape Our Lives | |
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| A Serious Game | |
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| Fish, Berries, and Logs: Where It All Began | |
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| Government Policies | |
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| Today's Realities | |
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| The Results | |
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| Working, Planning, and Budgeting | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| The Role of Work in Your Life | |
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| Factors in Choosing Your Work | |
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| Financial Records | |
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| The Job Quest | |
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| Your Work and Income: Protection and Regulation | |
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| Success Is What You Make It | |
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| The Master Plan | |
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| A Goal Worksheet: Here and Now | |
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| Shaping Future Goals | |
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| The Sources from Which Future Goals Can Be Accomplished | |
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| The Financial Statement: A Planning Tool | |
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| Some Thoughts on Spending Habits | |
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| Sensible Shopping and Spending | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| The Bad Habits | |
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| The Good Habits: Groceries and Toiletries | |
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| The Good Habits: Clothing and Accessories | |
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| The Good Habits: Major Home Furnishings | |
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| Recreation | |
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| Frauds and Swindles and How to Avoid Them | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Barnum Was Right | |
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| Bait and Switch | |
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| Mail-Order Madness | |
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| Frauds on the Street | |
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| Frauds in the Home | |
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| Home Improvements | |
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| Investment Schemes | |
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| Leisure and Luxuries | |
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| Snake Oil Sam's Miscellanea | |
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| What to Do about It | |
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| Your Best Defense | |
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| Transportation: Buying, Financing, and Insuring Your Cars | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| The Cost of Getting from Point A to Point B | |
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| Buying A Car | |
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| Financing: Direct versus Through the Dealer | |
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| Warranties | |
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| Automobile Insurance | |
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| Car Pooling | |
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| Car Rental | |
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| A Roof Over Your Head | |
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| Buying a Home | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| The Dilemma | |
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| Types of Housing | |
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| How to Buy a Dwelling at the Right Price | |
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| Making the Purchase | |
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| Financing a Home | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| How Home Financing Works | |
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| Shopping for Financing: Where to Go, What to Look For | |
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| Making the Application | |
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| Creative Financing | |
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| Tax Complications | |
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| Timing, Timing, Timing | |
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| Housing Costs and Regulations | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Property Insurance | |
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| The Types of Policies and Coverage | |
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| Property Taxes | |
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| Utilities | |
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| Maintenance and Repairs | |
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| Laws Regulating Housing | |
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| Renting | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Pros and Cons of Renting | |
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| To Buy or to Rent: A Case History | |
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| Shopping for Rentals | |
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| The Lease and Its Key Clauses | |
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| Month-to-Month Tenancy | |
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| Combinations of Leasing and Buying | |
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| Rent Laws | |
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| Terminating a Lease | |
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| Selling Your Home | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| What's Your Home Worth? | |
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| Using a Real Estate Agent | |
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| Preparing Your Home For Sale | |
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| What Financing is Available | |
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| Tax Implications When You Sell Your Home | |
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| Moving Expenses | |
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| Where the Money is | |
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| Financial Institutions | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Your Choices | |
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| The Middlemen | |
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| The Institutions | |
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| Services Available at Financial Institutions | |
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| Laws That Govern Financial Institutions and Their Transactions | |
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| Credit and Borrowing | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Buy Now, Pay Later | |
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| What Is Credit? | |
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| How the Cost of Credit Is Figured | |
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| Shopping for Loans | |
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| Dos and Don'ts When You Apply for a Loan | |
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| Credit Abuses | |
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| Cures for Overindebtedness | |
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| Discipline | |
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| Making Your Money Grow | |
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| Making Your Money Grow: An Overview | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Today Dollars and Tomorrow Dollars | |
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| Investment Criteria | |
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| Investigation | |
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| Sources of Investable Funds | |
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| Who Can Help You? | |
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| Making Your Money Grow: The Money Market | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| What Is the Money Market? | |
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| Types of Money Market Investments | |
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| Investing in the Bond Market | |
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| Mutual Funds | |
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| Other Money Market Opportunities | |
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| Making Your Money Grow: The Stock Market | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| A Perspective | |
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| Stock Ownership as a Form of Investing | |
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| How the Stock Markets Operate | |
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| Who Invests in the Stock Market, and What Are They Seeking? | |
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| Basic Stock Market Information | |
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| Price and Value: What Can Affect the Worth of a Stock? | |
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| Mutual Funds in the Stock Market | |
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| Online Trading | |
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| Choosing Your Broker: A Guide Through the Investment Jungle | |
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| Making Your Money Grow: Real Estate and Other Opportunities | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Myths and Facts about Real Estate Investing | |
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| Income-Producing Real Estate | |
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| Investing in Vacant Land | |
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| "Turnover" Investing | |
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| Investing in Mortgages | |
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| Group Investing | |
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| Investing in Small Businesses | |
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| Gambling in Commodities | |
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| Foreign Exchange and Deposits | |
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| Precious Metals | |
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| Strategic Metals | |
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| Gemstones | |
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| Collectibles | |
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| Television "Investment Opportunities" | |
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| Private Lending | |
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| Knowledge | |
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| Protecting What You Work for | |
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| Life, Health, and Income Insurance | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Coping with Risk | |
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| Why Life Insurance? | |
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| The Basic Elements of Life Insurance | |
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| Buying Life Insurance: Who Needs It, and How Much? | |
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| Insurance When the Risk Might Not Occur | |
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| Health Insurance | |
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| Health Care Checklists | |
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| Income Insurance | |
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| Financial Planning for Later Years | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| If Not for Yourself, Then for Your Parents | |
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| Reaching Financial Maturity | |
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| Financial Arrangements For The Later Years | |
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| Tax and Pension Laws: How They Affect the Rights of Workers and Retirees | |
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| Do-It-Yourself Pensions: IRAs, Keoghs and 401(k)s | |
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| Pensions and Taxes | |
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| One Final Caution | |
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| Estate Planning | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| If Not for You, Then for Your Parents | |
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| Unexpected Problems | |
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| What Is an Estate? | |
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| What Is Estate Planning? | |
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| The Rights Involved in Estate Planning | |
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| The Language of Estate Planning | |
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| The Will | |
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| Other Devices for Passing on Accumulated Wealth | |
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| How to Proceed | |
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| What Should Your Estate Plan Accomplish? | |
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| How Estate Taxes Work | |
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| Income Taxes | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Be Prepared | |
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| The Importance of Knowing about Income Taxes | |
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| The Basic Concept of Income Taxes | |
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| Tax-Cutting Strategies | |
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| Filing Your Return | |
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| What Happens to Your Return? Examinations and Audits | |
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| Working for Yourself | |
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| This Could Happen to You | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| When Is a Good Time to Start a New Venture? | |
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| Taking the Leap | |
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| The Start-up Choices of Your Venture | |
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| Where Will the Money Come From? | |
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| Nit-Picked to Death by Regulations? | |
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| Where to Get Help: The F.A.I.L.-Safe Team and the M and Ms | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |