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Why are we doing all of this??Student loan debt in the U.S. recently surpassed $1 trillion, and the average student loan debt is $25,000.?We know it?s an issue affecting many of you?and many of us.
To inspire you, below LearnVest Senior Editor Laura Shin writes about how she finally paid off her student loan.
In May of 2008, I graduated from journalism school with a master of arts, new friends from around the world ? and a decade?s worth of student loan debt.
I was lucky in that my student loan was, due to a hefty scholarship, ?just? $20,500. I was lucky in that my parents paid for my much more expensive undergraduate education and that they paid my living expenses while I was in grad school. I was lucky in many ways, but in one way I was deeply unlucky: I had somehow managed to reach my mid-30s without having a clue how to manage my finances.
My journey to the final loan payment I made in February was filled with so much fear, shame and, above all, anxiety, that when my colleagues at LearnVest suggested I write this piece, I didn?t want to.
I didn?t want the world to know that I?d spent the first two years of the loan payments in a fog of confusion about how to get rid of this debt, or that I?d racked up almost $8,000 in credit card debt, and I had to pay that off too, or that the way I got rid of the debt was by freakishly and obsessively tracking how I spent every dollar. I didn?t want to reveal these things to future editors or to people in the well-to-do, achievement-oriented?communities in which I grew up.
But given how many ways I went wrong on my way to becoming debt-free, I thought my own tale of ?how I did it??that is, paid off more than $20,000 in student loan debt within three-and-a-half years?could help LearnVesters and the 37 million Americans with student loan debt get there too.
My predicament had nothing to do with bad parenting: My sister, who was raised by the same people, has always handled money well.?Purely because of my here-and-now personality, until about two years ago, my basic philosophy toward money was, ?Have it, spend it.? I also had no concept of a separation between ?I want that? and ?I?ll get that.?
As recently as April 2010, I didn?t have a savings account. When I was in college, I remember that my bank told me to get a savings and a checking account, but I never fully understood why savings even existed since, if you actually wanted to use the money, you needed to take it from checking. So when I got my first job in New York, I opened only a checking account and put ?all? my money in there. I put ?all? in quotes because I lived paycheck to paycheck, not thinking there might be a time when money wouldn?t come every two weeks.
So in spring 2010, two years after graduating, I had a good job and made good money for a writer, but I was digging myself a credit card hole that would, by September, reach $7,500. (The culprits: Gilt Groupe and New York City boutique shopping, a three-week trip to India, constant dinners and drinks out with friends,?my book addiction?and God knows what else.)
See why I hesitated to tell you?and the world?what a money mess I was? But if someone as far gone as I was can pull her finances together, then so can you.
In April 2010, when I was $6,500 in credit card debt and $18,432 in student loan debt, I read?an article in The New York Times?about female-focused personal finance sites. (That was how I got hooked on LearnVest, long before I worked here.) In September, after my trip to India, I took a personal finance workshop, where I learned about this fabulous tool. It was called a budget.
It worked just like the?LearnVest Budgeting Tool. You take your monthly income, subtract your monthly expenses such as rent, utilities, etc. Then you do this magical thing: You put some money in savings and keep it there to watch it grow. Next, you make a payment toward your debt or, in my case, payments since I had the student loan and credit cards. As for the rest? That?s what you live on.
I figured out that, depending on how fast I wanted to pay my loan and amass savings, I had to live on between $190 and $240 per week. In cash.?
I immediately stopped all credit card spending except for items I could only buy online. I unsubscribed from Gilt. I stopped getting drinks almost every night. I stopped buying every single thing that looked good at the grocery and the farmers? market (I love to cook) and instead started planning out my meals so I only bought what I needed for that week.?I even started looking up restaurant menus online and choosing my meal before going out so I knew how much I would spend.
In essence, I started ?planning? all my spending.
This is how it worked: I took out the amount I had to spend that week from the ATM, and if I had to buy something with my credit card online, I immediately returned that same amount in cash back to my checking account. I started a Google spreadsheet that tracked every single dollar I spent so if I spent over my limit one week, I knew how much less to spend the next. Similarly, if I underspent one week, then the following week, I knew my how much bigger my budget was.
The sheet also tracked money I hadn?t even spent yet: As soon as I made plans for the next week or the next month, I would mark on that future day a dollar estimate of how much that activity might cost, i.e. ?Birthday dinner, $50,? so that when I got to that week, I already knew I had that much less for other spending.?It also kept me, when the night finally arrived, from being tempted?to have another drink I hadn?t planned on.
Not everyone in debt may need to be as obsessive as I was, but since I was trying to undo more than a decade-long habit of buying myself whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, I needed to be hyper-vigilant.
I am not going to lie: Living on this budget had an impact on my social life. But I had fallen in with an international crowd at grad school, so coincidentally, at the same time I was trying to go out less, the last of my grad school friends moved back to their home countries, so my social life naturally became less active.
I had already made some balance transfers so my credit card debt was no longer accruing interest, but for one card, the 0% period was going to end in January 2011, and I didn?t think I would be able to pay it off by then. I was getting heart palpitations just thinking about interest growing on my already sizable debt.
That Christmas, I got a gift from my parents?several thousand dollars they said I should put toward my student loan debt. I?m sorry, Mom and Dad, but the truth is, I used it to help pay off that credit card. (As I type this, tears actually spring up because it really hurts me to tell the world that I lied to them.)
But thanks to that gift and the five months I had spent being really diligent about my budget, by February 2011, I was free of my credit card debt. I had even saved enough money to take a trip to Mexico with 15 of my grad school friends.
I began to use plastic again, but I stuck to my weekly budget?and I ramped up the student loan payments. By this point, my student loan debt was just over $15,000.?
Around the same time, I got a new job?at LearnVest?and increased my freelance income with a new regular writing gig. (Increasing your income, whether through a raise or side income, is an under-sung way of helping pay down debt.)
I also started learning more about personal finance, and realizing, not only did I need to pay off my debt, I needed to build an emergency fund.?A CFP I worked with counseled me not to worry about my student loan since the interest rate was a ?low? 6.8%. She suggested I stop the loan payments, build my emergency cushion, then pay the loan off.
I tried and watched with pride as my emergency fund grew. But I felt dismay every time I looked at the student loan balance. Before meeting with her, the debt had fallen below $10,000, but by the time winter arrived, the interest, which accrued every day, pushed it above $10,000. Again.
Over Christmas, I made a decision: When I got my bonus in late January, I immediately sent a payment in the same amount to the lender. Then I took a massive amount out of my savings account, essentially decimating it. The February day it hit my checking account, I quietly logged onto the student loan website while at work and made my final payment.
But I?d been so traumatized by the experience of seeing the interest increase my debt on a daily basis, I still didn?t quite believe it. It wasn?t until a full month passed and I received a paper letter from the lender showing that I owed nothing, that I finally?finally?breathed a full sigh of relief.
Why are experts calling the current student loan situation an ?Impending economic crisis?? In our infographic, we take a closer look at the numbers.?See where you fit in.
Why would some community college courses cost more than others??Find out.
Learn the ins and outs of saving for college?with our guide.
Student loan debt getting you down??Our free bootcamp might help you out.
This story was originally published by?LearnVest.
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A "Walmart Entertainment" stamp in indelible ink has been placed on a disc, preventing any further conversion, but allowing it to still be played, at a Wal-Mart store in Rosemead, Calif., Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Wal-Mart is set to unveil its "disc-to-digital" service for converting old DVDs into an online library that is available over the Internet. The fee it will charge per disc is meant to cover the cost of hosting and delivering reams of movie files to various devices. The world's largest retailer also aims to keep drawing customers to its big-box stores as their movie-watching habits change. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
A "Walmart Entertainment" stamp in indelible ink has been placed on a disc, preventing any further conversion, but allowing it to still be played, at a Wal-Mart store in Rosemead, Calif., Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Wal-Mart is set to unveil its "disc-to-digital" service for converting old DVDs into an online library that is available over the Internet. The fee it will charge per disc is meant to cover the cost of hosting and delivering reams of movie files to various devices. The world's largest retailer also aims to keep drawing customers to its big-box stores as their movie-watching habits change. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
ROSEMEAD, Calif. (AP) ? Wal-Mart Stores Inc. previewed its "Disc to Digital" service for converting DVDs into an online library on Wednesday. Based on my experience, I'd give it a six out of 10.
That's the number of discs I was able to convert from a completely unscientific sampling of my personal DVD library.
The new service allows movie fans to walk into any Walmart, where they can present their old DVDs and get permanent access to an online version of each movie that can be streamed from a home computer or a mobile device. The DVDs are stamped with a special ink to prevent further conversion. The DVDs, however, can still be played. Each DVD conversion costs as little as $2.
Three of my four failed conversions were no surprise ? two were obscure documentaries, and one was a film from The Walt Disney Co., which is not participating in the service. One was a bit puzzling: "Water for Elephants," a fairly successful romance released last year by 20th Century Fox, one of the studios that is partnering with Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart's category director for movies, Louis Greth, said the retailer hasn't yet cleared the rights for all the titles from participating studios. That will result in some titles not being available. Some actors and directors have not agreed to sign over digital rights to movies they took part in. In the case of director George Lucas, that includes all six "Star Wars" movies.
Fox confirmed that the digital rights for "Water for Elephants" have not been cleared.
Still, with 4,000 titles available for digital conversion when the service launches nationwide on Monday, the retailer hopes to give U.S. customers another reason to come into stores. Wal-Mart also wants to take part in the shift in the way people watch movies. More and more people are choosing to watch on portable devices like Apple's iPad, and allowing people to convert their DVD libraries is seen as an important bridge to a fully portable age.
Greth called the plan "the right first step" to ease consumers into owning movies online.
Five major studios are participating in the service, which gives consumers permanent access to their movies through Wal-Mart's Vudu online movie service.
Customers must bring in the physical discs themselves and an employee will search a database to see if they are available. For $5 per disc, movies can be upgraded from DVD to a high-definition online version. Blu-ray discs converted to HD will still cost $2 each. Each disc that gets converted gets stamped with indelible ink so it can't be reused by someone else.
Vudu can be accessed through computers, Internet-connected TVs, video game consoles and by way of a special player available on iPads and iPhones. Access requires a hard-wired Internet connection or Wi-Fi.
Participating studios include Viacom Inc.'s Paramount, Comcast Corp.'s Universal, Sony Corp., Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. and News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox.
The Walt Disney Co. is developing its own online storage system called KeyChest, and is not involved in the Wal-Mart offer.
The service makes Wal-Mart part of the fledgling UltraViolet system for storing online movies. Several of the participating studios have begun to release new titles with the functionality, which allows purchased movies to be viewed through the Flixster online movie application. Fox has delayed introducing new titles on the UltraViolet standard until improvements are made.
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China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai pose in this January 17, 2007 file photo.
By Eric Baculinao and Bo Gu, NBC News
BEIJING ? The political shock waves set off from within a U.S. diplomatic compound by a disgruntled ex-cop in the southwestern city of Chengdu have culminated into what may well be China?s biggest political scandal in years.??
Already removed from a powerful regional post, the controversial but high-flying political star Bo Xilai has been purged from all his positions in China?s ruling hierarchy, and now his wife has been named a murder suspect, according to official announcements.
It was Bo?s former police chief and trusted aide, Wang Lijun, who ultimately led to Bo?s downfall and the criminal detention of his wife for her suspected role in the death of a British businessman.?
In February, Wang was said to have sought asylum in the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, spending roughly 30 hours there. Now in government hands, the former police chief has reportedly turned against his boss, with incriminating evidence of the Bo family?s crimes and corruption.
?No Hollywood movie can match this Chongqing political drama,? observed prominent blogger Michael Anti, referring to the megacity by the Yangtze River, over which Bo held sway for five years.
And coming in the midst of China?s once-in-a decade leadership transition ? the nation?s first political succession in the glare of Internet-driven public opinion and perhaps its most challenging ever ? the political upheaval has torn away the aura of leadership unity, with sobering implications for China?s future.
The other suspect in Heywood?s death is Zhang Xiaojun, who is described as an ?orderly? working in Bo?s family home.
China's Communist party unleashed its full weight against former politician Bo Xilai and his wife at the center of a murder scandal Wednesday. ITN's Angus Walker reports from Beijing.
An inquiry has been re-opened on the basis of information provided by Wang, the ex-police chief, in connection with Heywood?s death. His death last November was originally blamed on ?excessive? alcohol, but now poison is suspected, with a possible motive of economic disputes with the Bo family.
'Jackie Kennedy of China' suspected in death of British?businessman?
Bo ? a princeling, or son of one of the Communist Party elders, Bo Yibo - gained national fame for his own crackdown on crime and corruption and for his effort to revive a Maoist-era ?red culture? movement.? He attempted to use the so-called Chongqing model of development as a jumping board for joining the highest leadership body in the power transition later this year. The Chongqing Model emphasized state-led investment, with development zones, transportation links and incentives to lure business, according to Bloomberg.
?He was bound to fail,? said Professor Hu Xingdou, an analyst and frequent government critic. ?He was going against the tide with his Chongqing model that was repeating the methods of the disastrous Cultural Revolution.?
With the announcement of Bo?s wife?s detention, China?s Communist Party seemed to officially disown the former favored son. ?
Bo?s conduct has ?seriously violated the party?s disciplinary rules, damaging the affairs of the party and the country and badly harming the image of the party and the country,? the People?s Daily, the Communist Party?s flagship newspaper declared Wednesday.
The leaders? decision over Bo ?was signaling?that they were able to act very quickly, to make a decision?on it and to get it over with as soon as possible?because they do not want to derail the actual transition that?s coming later in October this year,? according to Damien Ma, a top China analyst at Eurasia Group, a consulting firm.
Ma dismissed suggestions that Bo?s dismissal reflects any factional fighting within the Communist Party or that it would lead to Tiananmen Square protests-style turmoil. ?No, him alone is not going to create another 1989,? he said.
China?s leaders essentially disowned him ?very quickly, and that was clearly to show to the rest of the Party that Bo Xilai is dead; do not support him.? It?s telegraphing to his supporters that this is done, we?ve made the decision, let?s move on, I think that?s what the message is,? said Ma.
China?s challenging future
?The decision showed that the top leadership has achieved unity where before there might have been differences of opinion,? concurred Hu.? ?And this unity is good for leadership succession and also good for social stability, because now no one will sympathize with Bo.?
The professor also described as ?understandable the crackdown on Internet rumors while deliberation was going on, but now that there is leadership unity, it is natural to allow the freedom to comment.?
Moreover, for Hu, the decision also showed the ?determination? to fight corruption and crime.??But it was accidental in this case because without the Wang Lijun incident, Bo?s crimes and corruptions might not have been exposed,? he added.
Ma was skeptical about the idea that Bo?s case had anything to larger political reform.
?The Communist Party is trying to institutionalize a lot of the norms and procedures, but at the end of the day, these mass-scale personalized politics happen, and they happen with a lot of fierceness and unpredictability,? he said, referring to the impact of Bo?s case on succession politics.
As for the challenges for China?s next generation of leaders??
?I would say that, over the next decade, political and social risks in China are actually going to be more challenging and more difficult than the past 30 years combined,? said Ma. ?They are facing a lot of issues they?ve never dealt with before, primarily socio-economic inequalities and political issues that are brought out by this enormous economic growth, and they haven?t had time to pause and think about what to do about them.? Frankly, this is a very challenging decade for China internally.?
Social media afire
Not surprisingly, China?s blogosphere spun into a frenzy in the hours before the fate of Bo and his wife was officially announced, culminating in a face-off between netizens and Chinese Internet authorities.
As early as Tuesday afternoon, people forwarded posts that ?a very important announcement? would be made on the primetime news program. By the time the news was finally read out on the late evening bulletin at 11 p.m., virtually every post on Weibo, China?s most popular Twitter-like service, was about the fall from grace of Bo and his family.
Meanwhile, a battle between the online ?rumor spreaders? and government ?rumor cleaners? raged on.? Spokesmen from leading Chinese websites such as Baidu, Sina and Tencent pledged on camera they would do their best to develop and deploy an advanced prevention system?fortified with human monitors 24/7 to prevent the spread of false information.
?We will absolutely prevent Weibo from becoming a hotbed of rumors,? said Chen Tong, the chief editor of Sina.com which hosts of Weibo.
But rumors ? especially in China ? often spread too quickly to contain.
And, it would appear, sometimes stories that start as rumors end up being true.
Months ago, people were talking about Heywood?s mysterious death and speculating about Bo?s ouster, but the posts always wound up being deleted minutes after being posted.
?While you are trying to refute a rumor, that rumor becomes true. Why bother to refute? Today?s rumor is tomorrow?s truth,? said one user called Yuan Tengfei on his Weibo page.
?You want us to sing red songs, but you are more black than the black society. This is sarcastic,? said another Weibo user called Longcan.? (In Chinese, ?black society? means mafia.)
Boxun ? an overseas Chinese Website censored in China for its bold reporting on mainland politics ? fed sleepless, fascinated Chinese readers with even more dramatic rumors soon after last night?s news.? Boxun?s latest report alleges that Mrs. Bo was involved in multiple murders and that the order for getting rid of Heywood came directly from her husband, because the Englishman knew the family had transferred millions of dollars of assets to foreign countries.? (A common practice among many of China?s wealthy families.)?
Teng Biao, a prominent human rights lawyer, joked on his Twitter page: ?I almost want to write a movie script. Mafia, an affair (Mrs. Bo is also rumored to have had an affair with Heywood), international espionage, guns, murder, trial, princeling, coup. This movie would be a big hit."
Researcher Isabella Zhong contributed to this report.?
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at 2:14 am ?
By Amaan Goyal
With the continued climb of IT and computer technology, people are getting more used to a whole new kind of entrepreneurship. This entrepreneurship is one that is based online and on the internet. It may not come as a surprise to you because everyday, it is very common to see new websites selling different products and services as well as receipt of emails coming from these businesses. At every part of our day, people get to interact more with the use of the internet. This can be looked upon on two sides. One, internet businesses make life easier for consumers. On the businessman?s point-of-view, business is also better with the widening of the market through the internet.
For these reasons, setting up an online business is a way to catch up with the times as well as a brand new way of making profit. When you have an online business or a home based business, it is very necessary to have internet marketing or more commonly known as online marketing. Admittedly, there are hundreds of thousands of business websites. For each kind of product and service, there are also thousands of people who are in the background representing different small to big businesses. So if you are an online business owner, how do you separate your business from the thousand others? How do you make your product, brand or service stand out?
The answer lies in the many and various website promotion schemes. To promote a product or service, you definitely have to promote your website because it is through your website that people get in touch with your business. In the world of internet entrepreneurship, website promotion is most essential to make your business succeed or fail. Without this, your website and your product or service offering might as well stay in the dark.
One method in online marketing is video marketing. Internet video marketing is a kind of marketing strategy employed by online business owners to announce to the world about their business. In video marketing, what you sell and promote is not only the product or service but more importantly, yourself. Most consumers nowadays are very picky and seem to hesitate when it comes to easily trusting something from the Web. As we all know, there are online scams and there are real and genuine online businesses. Knowing the difference of the two is difficult from the common consumer. So one way to uplift business credibility is to create and show an internet video about the product, service or owner.
For products which require assembly or demonstrations, videos are also useful to graphically teach the consumers or buyers. It is not simply a how-to video but also a way to market future products. Having a video for a certain product is a way of saying that the company behind the product cares for the consumer to maximize the use and convenience of the product. This, in turn, encourages more people to buy.
Internet video marketing is an effective and creative way to market any product, service, and even a company name or brand. With the rise of many online businesses, having one is an edge over the thousand other online entrepreneurs.
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The special prosecutor investigating the shooting death of Trayvon Martin ruled out using a grand jury in the case, meaning her office alone will decide whether or not to charge the teenager's killer, George Zimmerman, with a crime.
Florida Governor Rick Scott appointed Angela Corey, a seasoned state attorney based in Jacksonville, to take over the Trayvon Martin case as special prosecutor.
"State Attorney Angela Corey has decided not to use a grand jury in the Trayvon Martin shooting death investigation," her office said in a statement.
"At this time, the investigation continues and there will be no further comment." It's very much unclear when a decision will be reached in the case.
Martin's death has captured national attention because of racial profiling and Florida's controversial self-defense laws, prompting demonstrations across the U.S.
The unarmed Martin, 17, was black and Zimmerman, 28, the neighborhood watchman who has not been charged with a crime, is white and Hispanic.
A demonstration Monday temporarily shut down the police department in Sanford, Fla., the epicenter of the case and where the shooting took place.
Sanford police declined to arrest Zimmerman after the shooting, saying they found no evidence to contradict his account that he acted in self-defense.
Police cited Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows people to use deadly force against adversaries when they fear great bodily harm or death.
But defense lawyers with experience litigating "Stand Your Ground" say Zimmerman, will face a tough challenge to assert immunity under that law.
If the special prosecutor does not charge Zimmerman, some fear that the escalating racial tension could boil over into full-blown rioting in Florida.
Meanwhile, the man at the center of the storm has launched a website.
Zimmerman warns about various online groups that falsely claim to be raising funds for his defense, and has started soliciting donations for himself.
"I am the real George Zimmerman," declares the website.
"On Sunday February 26th, I was involved in a life altering event which led me to become the subject of intense media coverage," he writes.
"As a result of the incident and media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life."
"This website's sole purpose is to ensure my supporters that they are receiving my full attention without going through any intermediaries."
In addition to the controversies over race and Stand Your Ground, the case - in the eyes of many - has become the poster child for media bias.
Zimmerman, despite his highly questionable actions, remains free and is innocent until proven guilty, yet has been vilified from day one.
NBC's editing of the Trayvon Martin 911 call was the most glaring example.
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