Seven Financial Mistakes That Ended Disastrously

As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20 — especially when it comes to mistakes in financial moves. From the dream car turning into a lemon to smoking your son’s college savings, we asked other popular personal finance bloggers what their worst financial moves were, here are seven financial moves that ended badly:

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10 Ways to Put Your Finances Back on Track

This is a guest post from Jonathan Leane, a personal finance blogger at Debt Loans.

On the road to fiscal responsibility, we all suffer our occasional missteps. Whether you’ve fallen along the wayside due to poor luck or bad judgment, you shouldn’t consider yourself out just because you’re down. True, digging yourself out of a hole is far more difficult than avoiding financial trouble in the first place, but with a bit of diligence and a few tips, you can get back on your feet and get your finances back on track.

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12 Personal Finance Lessons To Be Learned From This Recession

Everyone I know is sick of this recession, and sick of hearing about this recession. For one, the media’s attention to the global financial situation is depressing. But as many have pointed out, we are in this situation because of our own devices. On the individual level, poor financial and debt management, have exacerbated outside factors such as the housing market collapse and high rates of unemployment. For others, indiscriminate consumer debt has led to a number of individual crises. But in such a climate, there is a lot that can be learned. While it would have benefited everyone to know this several years ago, here are twelve personal financial lessons that can and should be learned during this recession.

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