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RISKY BUSINESS: Learn how your risk tolerance can affect your finances

Do you like roller coasters, or do you prefer the merry-go-round? If you won a junket to Las Vegas, would you prefer watching a show to rolling the dice? Do you like rock climbing? Or would you rather
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Making Hay without Riding the Tractor: Investing in Agriculture

Most Americans are accustomed to being surrounded by a world of plenty, with supermarket shelves so bountiful in their array of goods that folks from less prosperous parts of the world have been known
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Simple Solutions for Cash-Strapped Investors: If You Have $100, You can Get Started

One of the biggest barriers to investing for women is, well, money. Lots of women (and men, too) assume that you need a big pile of cash in order to start investing. The notion is that the stock market
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Can Brad Pitt Turn Us Onto Stocks and Investing? The sex and stock connection.

We may have discovered why men seem to be so more interested in investing than women. And it’s not about stocks. It’s about sex. Do you ever think about your Apple stock the way you think about,
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Getting Rid of Your Inner Bag Lady: Finding Financial Confidence

Are you haunted by an inner bag lady, by a fear that you’ll be waiting tables and soaking your aching feet at 65 instead of heading for the retirement of your dreams? Last week I met Jennifer, a glowing,
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Financing Advice For AlphaWomen.com Community

Carol Chapman of Woman with Portfolio, the online investing site for women, is offering a special subscription rate to members of the Alpha Women community to help them get fiscally fit. Whether you're