Business & Finance

Depend on Paradise Service Technologies for Plumbing and AC Service

The Good News
2 Dec 2014
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When it comes to plumbing and air conditioning services, Matt Rich, owner of Paradise Services Technologies, has been providing quality service with experience and integrity for more than 25 years. By demonstrating consistent reliability, his ultimate goal is to satisfy customers with competitive pricing and service second to none. A loyal advertiser for 16 years, Matt said he partners with the Good News because he wants to be included among similar advertisers who are more likely to be honest, have good business morals and treat people fairly. Starting in plumbing from the ground up, Matt said, “there’s nothing that I […]

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Avoid Mistakes with Life Insurance

Jeff Masters
3 Nov 2014
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Life insurance may be one of the most important purchases an individual will ever make. An August 2010 study by LIMRA, an insurance research organization, revealed that ownership of individual life insurance has fallen to a 50-year low in the United States: 30 percent of households (35 million) have no life insurance coverage at all. In addition, there are a variety of mistakes made during the process of obtaining life insurance coverage. Procrastinating When you wait too long to buy life insurance, you leave your family vulnerable if something unexpected happens to you. Term life insurance premiums generally increase as […]

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For Business and Real Estate Advice Consult Trinity Title & Escrow & Joseph Altschul

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Joseph Altschul is an attorney practicing law in South Florida for more than 24 years and the owner of Trinity Title and Escrow, LLC. They have been loyal Good News advertisers for eight years. Trinity Title focuses on all types of real estate transactions including purchases, sales and refinances of residential, commercial and investment properties. Joseph’s law firm offers legal counsel, from a biblical perspective, in all aspects of business and real estate. This includes real estate litigation, such as foreclosures and contract disputes, and business law inclusive of incorporations, transactions, purchases and sales of businesses and business disputes. Before […]

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Networking the Church

Jeff Masters
9 Oct 2014
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We have all experienced a time when someone from your church or the Christian community eagerly wants to get to know you, or is insincerely nice to you for some underlying motive of a “business opportunity” or to present directly or indirectly their product or service. We agree to see them because they go to our church or because they are a fellow “believer,” but we wonder what their motives and intentions are. The sales profession can be an honorable and essential component to our economic system, but we must be able to discern the underlying motives and representation of sales and marketing tactics. […]

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Why Most People Never Accumulate Surplus

Jeff Masters
11 Sep 2014
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For years now, Americans have been among the world’s worst savers. This is most astonishing since we live in one of the most prosperous nations in the world. The 2013 Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that Americans on average saved only 3.8 percent of their disposable income. Compare this to the 13.3 percent saved annually back in 1971. What are we doing? The average Chinese household saved 50% of its disposable income last year and in India over 30 percent. Why is there such an enormous discrepancy and why are Americans so consumptive? Proverbs 21:17 states, “Those who love pleasure […]

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At the Wheel of John Herbeck’s Auto

Tami Gomez
9 Sep 2014
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Drew Ciba, owner and president of John Herbeck’s Auto Repair since 2002, has built a reputation for doing great work and charging honest prices. A longtime resident of South Florida, he was brought up in Margate, later moved to North Carolina, but was drawn right back to settle in Pompano. Ciba and his wife, Dayla, have two children. Drew became interested in cars while working at a Mobile gas station while attending Broward College. He later worked in the service department at a Lincoln Mercury dealership in North Carolina. However, his passion for classic cars began in 1983 when Ciba […]

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Investor Bad Behavior

Jeff Masters
4 Aug 2014
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When it comes to money and investing, we’re not always as rational as we think we are, which is why there’s a whole field of study that explains our sometimes strange investment behavior. It is important to control your emotions and avoid self-destructive investor behavior. We call the gap between general market returns and individual investment performance “investor behavior penalty.” It is possible for investors to negatively affect performance due to their numerous behavioral & emotional flaws. Why is this? Greed and overconfidence People generally overestimate their knowledge and their abilities to make financial decisions, either by overconfidence or by […]

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Effects of the Student Loan Bubble

Jeff Masters
2 Jul 2014
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Americans owe $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, a number that has tripled in the last decade, according to a recent NY Daily news article. Student debt now exceeds the total of auto loans, credit cards, and home-equity debt balances, making student loans the second largest debt of U.S. households only following mortgage debt. Nearly 20 million Americans attend college each year; of those close to 12 million, or 60 percent, borrow annually to help cover costs. There are approximately 37 million student borrowers with outstanding student loans today, and only 37 percent of federal student loan borrowers (between 2004-2009) […]

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Preparing For Loss of the Family Provider

Jeff Masters
2 Jun 2014
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We all manage our budgets, plan for our major purchases, have financial plan for paying for our children’s college and our own retirement, but we seldom consider end-of-life planning. In reality, 2.4 million Americans die each year — and that number grows every year. Losing a loved one is an unfortunate event. More often than not, we find ourselves unprepared in many ways, especially financially, when it happens. The majority of individuals that lost a spouse between the ages of 30 and 55 described their spouse’s passing as having a “devastating” or “major” impact on them financially. The Center for […]

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529 College Savings Plans Offer Tax Benefits

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Saving for college—whether for your children or your grandchildren—has become easier in recent years with the emergence of state-sponsored savings plans. Called a Section 529 Plan, after the section of the Internal Revenue Code that created them, these plans are offered by all 50 states and provide tax benefits to college savers. Two options While each state plan is different, there are two general types of plans: prepaid tuition plans and college savings plans. With a prepaid tuition plan, the money you put into the plan is earmarked for tuition at your local state university. In most cases, once you […]

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