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New Tax Structure May Affect Retirement Accounts
Laurie Flynn is a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and is a supporter of Queercents. She’s written a few posts these past weeks on the topic of investing. These are her words… New Tax Structure May Affect Your Retirement Accounts President Bush recently signed the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (TIPRA) into…
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Lesbians and IVF: Coping with the Cost of Infertility
“The decision to have a child is to accept that your heart will forever walk about outside your body.” — Katherine Hadley Jeanine and I have been trying to make a baby for over eighteen months and this latest round of IVF pushed us passed the $42,000 mark. We learned a couple of weeks ago…
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Ten Money Questions for Kirk Snyder
Kirk Snyder speaks and writes about why organizations under the management of white-collar gay male executives are more harmonious, interconnected, and successful. Best known as the author of “The G Quotient” and “Lavender Road to Success,” Kirk is recognized as an authority on the contemporary workplace and business leadership. Career and money… since these are…
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Sacred Writings on Money Blogs
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” — Jonathan Swift On Sunday, the Personal Finance blogosphere went into a tizzy over a guest post at Get Rich Slowly, a popular blog written by J.D. The guest blogger, from Free Money Finance (FMF) wrote about why he thinks a…
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Strategies to Help Cope with Higher Oil Prices
Laurie Flynn is a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and is a supporter of Queercents. She’s written a few posts these past weeks on the topic of investing. These are her words… Strategies to Help Cope with Higher Oil Prices With oil prices up sharply during the past few years, many investors are worried about…
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Bottled Water: Healthy Indulgence or Marketing Ploy?
“Bottled water is the fastest-growing major beverage category in the U.S.” — Forbes magazine How much do you spend each month on bottled water? I have no idea really but I drink a bottle (1.5 Liters) everyday and although we buy in bulk, I suspect that our bottled water expenditure is between $20 and $30…
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Queer talk about corporate money
“To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.” — John Henry Patterson A few weeks ago, Moorea wrote a post called Corporate America Loves Queers!? that talks about how her local Gay Pride has become decidedly more corporate. She explained that there is a history of how Pride got to be so corporate in…
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Queercents introduces Aundi Howerton
We’ve added another contributing writer to Queercents! Aundi Howerton is a poetry and fiction writer living in Los Angeles and writes for several blogs, including a daily political blog. Aundi identifies as gender queer and strongly supports the depolarization of gender specificity. We continue to strive to offer a broad range of views at Queercents…
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Prepping Your Income for Retirement
Laurie Flynn is a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and is a supporter of Queercents. She’s written a few posts these past weeks on the topic of investing. These are her words… Prepping Your Income for Retirement Just as they’ve revolutionized American culture, baby boomers are reinventing retirement. They are expected to live longer, play…
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Outliving your Money: Retiring with HIV
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore Here’s a “savings” stat to scare us as we head off to work on a Monday morning. According to Money magazine, “57% of workers age 45-50 have saved less than $50,000.” Earlier this year, I wrote a post about The Longevity…
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