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Purchasing CDs (Certificates of Deposit) fell out of favor with many as the returns offered by high yield savings accounts came to match or exceed the interest rates on most CDs. High yield savings accounts also had the added bonus of retaining your money's liquidity -- a selling point that CDs could not compete with. However, the US Federal Reserve has been slashing interest rates all willy-nilly as of ...

Spy on your boss? Why would anyone want to do that? I'll admit the title sounds rather sinister. In a perfect world, showing up on time and excelling at your job would be enough to grant you job security. However, there are times when circumstances beyond your control give you reason to fear for your job. A great example of this is when a new boss is hired to manage a ...

I stopped into my local Barnes & Noble this past weekend to pick up a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. There's been so much buzz about this book, especially within the internet marketing crowd, that I thought I'd give it a shot. Well, I read it and I didn't really enjoy it. Some parts of the book were inspiring and thought-provoking, but on the whole it ...

I can't remember where I first read it, but it's been written so many times on the internet that I suppose the original source is long lost: Most people don't want to be rich, they want to appear rich. Two weeks ago I ordered a pizza for delivery. The delivery boy, who couldn't have been older than 25, had a clear rock in his earring the size of a ...

Last winter, I drove my beloved 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix GTX face-first into a cement highway divider during an ice storm. I bounced off the steering wheel and found myself faced with a horrible pain -- used car shopping! My first suggestion for anyone finding themselves faced with this necessary evil is to separate your trips into two categories: evaluation and shopping. During your evaluation trips, you'll visit car ...

Mass transportation is a very popular, very viable means of commuting for professionals working in cities that are not close to their homes. Many choose to live in a suburb but work in a nearby city because of better pay and/or more opportunities for people in their industry. After college, I spent a year commuting from my home in New Jersey to my job in New York City by ...

Working in Internet Marketing, the company IT department often holds the keys to resources needed to perform my job. I seldom have problems with IT departments, but I often hear complaints about them from friends and coworkers. "They're mean, they're lazy, they talk down to me, etc." To be blunt, you need the IT department a lot more than they need you in the microcosm that is your company or ...

Asking for a raise when you're low man on the totem pole is scary. If you know it's scary, then you'd better believe your employer knows too. All fear and apprehension aside, though, sometimes it is necessary for a young professional to seek more than they've been given by the company they're making money for. But how? I prefer to secure pay increases from my existing employer, rather than ...

I'm so excited to be writing this first post here at Yuppie Sherpa. This blog is something I've been meaning to do for a long time and have put off for various reasons. But don't be fooled by the radio, the TV or the magazines They show you photographs of how your life should be But they're just someone else's fantasy So if you think your life is complete confusion because you ...