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1. Good stocks to consider buying now
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY If you had bought stock in Colgate Palmolive (CL) on June 15, 2000, for $58.50 a share, your stock would now be worth around a lofty $101.55 ...

2. Re Vincz
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... was recent; and I accurately reported what it said. Have you contacted Consumers Union YET? Warren Boroson ...

3. Your health insurer may owe you a refund
(Health/Healthquest)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM According to Consumers Union, New Jersey health insurance companies may owe you a refund -- below are the total amounts they may owe you: Individual Market ...

4. A few terrific mutual funds — and several stinkers
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY Every once in a while, I like to check out Morningstar Mutual Fund’s top-rated mutual funds — those that get five stars, the highest traditional ...

5. Beware the gold digger Kanye West didn't warn you about
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY New Jersey lawyers tell me that there seems to be an epidemic of gold-digging these days: women marrying older men just for their money — ...

6. The old man and the golddigger...and a nephew with a lawyer
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY A man of 85, Harold, was a widower and very lonely. He lived in Massachusetts. So he put an ad in a newspaper that he was looking for a female ...

7. Why I’m against a flat tax
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY Recently I heard someone extol the benefits of a flat tax, where people pay the same percentage of their income to the government — say, 20 ...

8. Lucia DiNapoli Gibbons: From barber’s daughter to Wells Fargo top executive
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY Lucia DiNapoli Gibbons of Jersey City – a top executive at Wells Fargo, the national bank – doesn’t hesitate in explaining why she has been ...

9. REVIEW: Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Company’s ‘Pirates of Penzance’ is bubbly and irresistible
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Too darned bad that Sunday was the last performance of the Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Company’s “Pirates of Penzance” because it ...

10. Irving Berlin: Surprising facts about the great songwriter
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM May 11 was songwriter Irving Berlin’s birthday. He called himself a “songwriter” because, unlike many other composers, he also wrote his own lyrics — like Cole ...

11. 3 'great' dividend-paying mutual funds
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM BOROSON ON MONEY I bow to no one in my admiration for Morningstar, the publishing house in Chicago, and in my admiration for its leaders, Joe Mansueto and Don ...

12. Why every middle-class family needs a lawyer
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY Irwin Edman, a philosophy professor at Columbia, once told his class that there are two types of people in the world: those who divide the ...

13. Why women may be better investors than men
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY A question for a young, female Certified Financial Planner: “Not many of your (female) classmates went into financial planning, did they?” ...

14. Check Consumer Reports for shrewd financial advice
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY I’m not urging you to cancel your subscriptions to Money, SmartMoney, Kiplinger’s, and so forth. Just suggesting that you at least occasionally ...

15. 'Financial Fitness Forever' by Paul Merriman shows the human mind is strange
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY Someone — let’s call him George — stops a stranger on a college campus and asks for directions. As the stranger helpfully studies a map ...

16. 'Investing Without Wall St.' by Sheldon Jacobs offers shrewd advice
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY Before passing along some of Sheldon Jacobs’ practical, shrewd investment advice, I want to share a delicious story he tells in his new book, ...

17. N.J. Merrill Lynch financial advisors: A formidable father-daughter team
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON BOROSON ON MONEY NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A version of this article appeared in The Jewish Standard. When a female financial planner in Morris County started up shop 20 years ago, ...

18. Bonds may lose value as interest rates rise, says money manager Scott Noyes
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY The bonds in your portfolio may actually be ticking time bombs. Especially any long-term bonds. For quite a while, interest rates have ...

19. Gilbert and Sullivan: The facts behind the fame
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM This year marks the 75th anniversary of the start of one of the most celebrated G&S companies in the world: the one in Ridgewood, N.J. It’s scheduled to ...

20. Bonds vs. stocks: A horrible mistake that many investors make
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY Whenever I talk to people wearing sackcloth and ashes because they have just lost a small fortune in the stock market, I usually know why. ...