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	<title>Money Blue Book » Financial Planning</title>
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	<description>Personal Finance Beyond Credit Cards and Balance Transfers</description>
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		<title>How to do an annual financial checkup</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/how-to-do-an-annual-financial-checkup/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The start of a new year is a chance to start with a clean slate and  plan for a better year ahead. If your finances didn't fare so well in  the previous year, it can be a time to rethink your approach and give  yourself a financial checkup to ensure you're on the right path.
An annual financial chec [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the card: 5 ways to build credit</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/building-credit-scores-without-credit-cards/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't wait until graduating from college to think about your credit score.  It's easy to get pulled into a debt trap as a student if you have  student loans, credit cards, utility bills, rent, etc. But there are  some things you can do even while attending college that can help you  build excellent  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 key credit card terms you should know</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/5-key-credit-card-terms-you-should-know/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was starting out, a wallet full of credit cards was a sign of success--if you had five or six cards, you were obviously doing well. Like so many others, I got myself into a bit of a payment crunch; each minimum payment by itself was small, but when I lumped them all together each month, well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 credit cards for consumers with excellent credit</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/top-5-credit-cards-for-consumers-with-excellent-credit/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Take care of your credit, and credit card companies will want to take care of you. Banks have put together some hard-to-find credit card offers to attract consumers with high FICO scores. If you've built a strong credit history, you can earn unusually high cash back rebates, travel perks, and low in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting yourself from overdraft protection: 4 steps you should take</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/protecting-yourself-from-overdraft-protection-4-steps-you-should-take/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Overdraft protection. The words sound almost comforting--like an extra layer of security around your checking account--or perhaps a safety net to catch any mistake you might make in your account records. Under certain circumstances, overdraft protection can be those things, but to many bank customer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal income tax filing: 5 common mistakes -- and what they can cost you</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/federal-income-tax-filing-5-common-mistakes-and-what-they-can-cost-you/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Long before he became a cop, Kevin was my best friend. So when he joined the police, it seemed natural that I'd often join him and his colleagues for an after-work drink. They were a great bunch, and I really enjoyed the time I spent with them. But as they told their job-related stories, I'd frequen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 signs your date is a financial dud</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/6-signs-your-date-is-a-financial-dud/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dating is like walking on a minefield: You never know what your next step will bring. Now to make it even harder, dating experts are adding a new twist. It used to be as easy as intuition, dinner and a movie, but now experts say that financial compatibility is an important factor in finding the righ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kardashian Kard killed - but prepaid cards set to take off</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/kardashian-kard-killed-but-prepaid-cards-set-to-take-off/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Call me old-fashioned (no, really--everyone else does), but I know next to nothing about the Kardashian sisters. However, even with the tiny amount of knowledge I have, I struggle to picture a family breakfast scene in which Kim, licking maple syrup from her perfectly manicured fingers, glances up f [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 banking innovations to look for in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/6-banking-innovations-to-look-for-in-2011/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always thought of banks as the bad guys. They charge too much on my credit card balances. They pay too little interest on my savings. And they charge me fees for every little thing. In the last couple of years we even had to endure our tax dollars going to bail out banks that went a little cr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it safe to bank with an iPhone?</title>
		<link>http://www.moneybluebook.com/is-it-safe-to-bank-with-an-iphone/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Apple iPhone is the one of the world's biggest technology phenomena. Behind the popularity is a wide selection of unique mobile applications that can be easily downloaded. This includes banking applications that are about to take mobile banking to the next level.
Setting up mobile banking
Mobile [...]]]></description>
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