Kiplinger's Personal Finance

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Contents

Let's End this Charade
10
Mutual funds (Fees)
Cold Comfort
12
State taxation, Local taxation, Cities and towns (Rating)
Scanned and Cleared for Takeoff
18
United States Transportation Security Administration, Airline passenger security screening, Biometric identification
Taking on Risk to Achieve Extra Growth
28
Civil service pensions, Defined contribution pension plans, Retirement income, Mutual funds
The Path to Higher Yields
32
Securities (Rate of return)
My Car Insurance Costs Too Much!
62
Insurance, Automobile (Rates)
Do We Save for College Or Retirement?
63
College education (Costs), Retirement income, Saving and savings
Which Type of Mortgage is Right for Us Now?
66
Mortgages
I Want More Control Over My Cell Phone Bill
69
Cellular telephone service companies (Rates)
Kids, Cars & Cash
72
Insurance, Automobile, Teenage automobile drivers

Take My Money . . . Please
38
Gary Wood; 1939-., Charles A. Knott (Jr.), George Tharakan, Investment advisers
Young Companies on a Roll
42
Small capitalization stocks (Price forecasting), Growth companies (Securities)
Inflation Got You Worried?
46
Inflation (Finance), Hedging (Finance), Mutual funds (Rate of return)
Perception Versus Reality
48
Personal finance, United States (Economic conditions)
Aging Gracefully at Avon
49
Andrea Jung (American cosmetics industry executive.), Avon Products, Inc (Securities)
Skid Marks on My Heart
50
JLG Industries, Inc (Securities)
Comeback of the Young Century
53
Bruce Fund, Inc (Investments), Contrarian investments
Foreign Affairs
54
Masters' Select International Fund, T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund, Mutual funds (Rate of return, Rating), Bond funds (Rating)
Solved!
60
Personal finance
All I Really Want is One Simple Mutual Fund
60
Mutual funds
Tuition is Only the Beginning
79
College education (Costs), College students (Economic conditions)
Who Pays for College?
82
College education (Costs), Parents of college students, College students (Economic conditions)
Who Gets the Lowest Life Premiums?
83
Insurance, Life (Rates)
Talk Isn't Cheap
84
Cellular telephone service companies (Customer relations), Cellular telephones
Early Retirement
85
Individual retirement accounts, Youth (Economic conditions)
Keep Covered
87
Insurance, Automobile, Automobiles (Storage)
Thin is in
92
Wide screen television (Rating), Television receivers (Flat panel displays, Rating), High definition television receivers (Rating)
The Big Chill
98
Elliott Mackey (Attitudes, opinions, etc), Wine cellars
Too Many Greenbacks
103
Ford Escape Hybrid (Automobile)

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