A great way to turn those unwanted gift cards into cash is to turn to Ebay, as mentioned in previous posts. On the flip side, if planning your purchases appropriately, you can create some additional retail savings for yourself.
At the time of this post, Ebay had over 17,000 auctions for gift cards ranging across almost [...]

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As the new year approaches, my employer has updated their benefits package to include the option of contributing to a Roth 401K. Ever since I have been working, I have always contributed pre-tax dollars in the Traditional 401K to take advantage of (i) starting to save early and (ii) of the healthy company match.
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If you are interested in side stepping some of the recent market volatility with a short-term merger arbitrage strategy, why don’t you roll the dice with the pending merger transaction of Penn National Gaming Inc (PENN)….
The recent shareholder approval on December 12th, 2007 provides on more step closer to closing the deal.
On June 15, 2007, [...]

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