Kiplinger's Personal Finance

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Contents

My Tax Audit Survival Guide
12
Tax auditing
Live Long and Prosper
20
Longevity, Insurance, Life (Term policies, Rates)
Numbers Game
30
Catch Them While You Can
34
Stocks (Prices), Dividends
Are Wraps Getting a Bad Rap?
40
Wrap accounts, Mutual funds, Separately managed accounts
Pay Your Money, Make Your Choice
81
Defined contribution health benefit plans, Employee health insurance (Administration)
Escape from a Bad Retirement Plan
82
403(b) plan, Teachers (Salaries)
Chasing the Dream
88
Camps
My Need for Speed
90
Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, Automobile racing (Study and teaching)
A Taste of Tuscany
92
Cooking (Study and teaching, Italy), Cooking, Tuscan

Add Spice to Your Investments
46
Small capitalization stocks (Rate of return), Foreign securities (Rate of return), Mutual funds (Rate of return)
How Smart Investors Blow It
48
Mutual funds (Rate of return), Asset allocation, Investments (Psychological aspects)
Bonds Go Bonkers
51
Treasury bills and notes (Yields), Bonds (Yields)
Upside to the Jobs Downslide
52
Manufacturing industries (Employees), Employment, Labor supply (China), United States (Economic conditions)
Prisoners of the AMT.
60
McLeodUSA Inc (Securities), Alternative minimum tax, Middle classes (Taxation), Employee stock options (Taxation)
Put Your Financial IQ to the Test
66
Personal finance
Franchises That Work Out
72
Franchise system (Purchasing)
Is Your Pension Safe?
76
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Pensions (Finance), Defined contribution pension plans
With I-Bonds, Less Is More
79
I Bonds, Inflation-indexed bonds (Yields), Investments
Lure of the River
94
Mark Wilde, Fly fishing (Study and teaching), Fishing (Vermont)
Highlands Fiddling
96
Jink & Diddle School of Scottish Fiddling (Valle Crucis, N.C.), Violin (Study and teaching), Music, Scottish
Skies on the Cutting Edge
98
Debbie Armstrong (American skier.), Skis (Rating), Ski boots (Rating), Ski bindings
Photos by Phone
102
Camera phones (Rating)
Movies on the Move
103
Portable DVD players (Rating)
Green Machines
104
Hybrid vehicles, Diesel engines, Automotive, Automobiles (Environmental aspects)
Uh-oh! Canada Border Mayhem
107
Passports (United States), Americans (Canada), Travel regulations (Canada)
The Road to Athens
109
Olympic Games, 2004 (Athens, Greece) (Tickets), Athens (Greece) (Hotels, motels, etc)

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