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Anyone can succeed through hard work, dedication, determination, and sacrifice. It sounds hard - and it is - but those who achieve success aren’t whiners and don’t blame others for their failings because they DO SOMETHING about it. The difference between success and failure is the “will to keep going.” so here are 10 steps to achieve your American dream.
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Follow this 10-step guide to saving and investing, and you’ll be much more likely to gain financial security in your life.
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Over the past 12 years saving gold and/or silver has been an 8x - yes, 8 times! - more effective strategy to grow one's wealth than banking money and I believe it will continue to be so for the foreseeable future for four reasons.
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The real strength of this report is not that it is up to the minute, but rather that it offers a snapshot in time along with useful sense of trends in income inequality since the late 1970s, when it began to rise.
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