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Tag: personal finance
Coverage of personal finance from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Baldwin County
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Wrestling the Bear: A Baldwin County Retiree’s Plan to Trade His Way to Disney World
With the market falling and a promised family trip on the line, a retired paper mill manager in Baldwin County laid out the leveraged ETF trading system he used to generate income in a bear market.
Mobile County
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Mobile Residents Faced Tax Day Filing Deadline in 2008
A 2008 WKRG report noted the tax filing deadline for Mobile-area residents and outlined possible penalties for filing late.
Mobile
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Lessons From a Hospital Bed: How a Mobile Stockbroker Learned to Stop Chasing the Last Dollar
The concluding installment of a Mobile memoir: a foul-mouthed doctor diagnoses a pulmonary embolism, a broker survives, and a man decides that a million-dollar year is not what he will be remembered for.
Mobile
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Six Broadcasts a Day: A Mobile Broker’s Life on the Radio and in the 1974 Bear Market
A longtime Mobile stockbroker recalls the years he read market reports over WLPR, the punishing bear market of 1974, and the new options game that helped keep his family afloat.
Mobile
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The Bottom Came in December: A Mobile Broker on the 1974 Crash, Recovery, and a Diagnosis He Did Not Expect
In the gloom of late 1974 a Mobile stockbroker drew up two models of the future and labeled them Doom and Boom. The market gave him his answer on December 6. Then his doctor gave him another.
Baldwin County
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Interest-Only Mortgages and the Baldwin County Boom: A Quiet Argument Over Risk
In December 2004, a private exchange among South Alabama professionals turned into a pointed debate: were interest-only mortgages fueling Baldwin County’s housing boom, and what happens if prices stop rising?