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10 Money Lessons We Can Learn From Warren Buffett 10 Nov 2012 | 01:54 am
He’s typically considered the blue-collar investor… the guy who did things the right way. And we can learn a lot from him. Here are 10 Financial Lessons We Can Learn From Warren Buffett Graphic source...
You’re Getting Nothing (Expensive) For Christmas 10 Nov 2012 | 01:28 am
A penny saved is a penny earned so this holiday season, bank your bucks and stretch every red and green cent as far as it will go. Whether you tend to go overboard in extravagance or practice modest g...
College Tuition Is A Big Racket 14 May 2012 | 08:03 am
In case you haven’t noticed, college tuition is way out of control. We have a whole generation of kids that are basically mortgaging their future. It’s a higher education bubble. The fact is that not...
The Christmas Price Wars Are On 9 Oct 2011 | 04:43 am
toysightings.com Following Wal-Mart’s announcement in late September that stores across the country would expand last year’s holiday come-on of ten toys priced at $10 to 100 toys this year. The list ...
Affordable College Education On A Shoestring Budget 26 Oct 2010 | 06:26 am
Most of us don’t have the money to spend on higher education these days and some of us don’t want to take out loans in order to further our educations. What we ultimately need is the best education we...
Gifting Adventures for Bleak Times 6 Oct 2010 | 07:01 am
Autumn is well upon us, and people who have been struggling to stay afloat in this lousy economy all year are now faced with the prospect of the coming holiday gifting season. Which can be daunting in...
Because Health Care Is Not a Right 23 Sep 2009 | 06:45 am
The long summer has finally come to an end, along with August’s endless supply of bread and circuses we all enjoyed so much. The spectacle of so many angry elderly folks demanding that the government ...
Those So-Desirable Uninsureds 9 Sep 2009 | 03:47 am
Those of us who have spent a good part of our lives not being rich – or even middle-middle class – have likely spent quite a bit of our lives without health insurance as well. Or with junk insurance t...
Bailouts Get Bigger When Banks Fail 18 Aug 2009 | 05:00 am
…and HCR update The biggest bank failure of 2009 happened last week when the FDIC moved to shut down Colonial BancGroup of Alabama, along with four other banks, bringing the total thus far this year ...
Health Care Kabuki Theater Deluxe 9 Aug 2009 | 02:55 am
Those of us attempting to live on what was a shoestring budget even before the Great Unending Recession/Depression have probably been watching the large insanity of vacationing Congresscritters attemp...
