Last Friday caused me some confusion when I logged into my banks website. I log-in every-other Friday morning to transfer my direct deposited paycheck from my checking account to a savings account to eke out just a little more interest. Since I keep such a close eye on things, I’ve become very accustomed to seeing [...]
Regardless of your point of view, I hope that everyone is aware of the Tea Parties happening today (April 15th) all of the US. Citizens from all fifty states are organizing to protests the current administrations path of heavy borrowing. They have come to the conclusion that what is borrow now will need to be [...]
A recent poll by Rasmussen Reports asked Americans “which is a better system – capitalism or socialism?” I am shocked that there isn’t a larger majority in favor of the American system. I naively believed that experiments such as Cuba and the former USSR would mitigate faith in socialism. Perhaps most shocking of all is [...]
At the end of February I was worth -$837.01 but March broke me out of negative equity! Theoretically if I liquidated everything, I’d have $1,501.01 free and clear. I feel like I’ve accomplished something quite grand, so clap clap for me. My cash flows for March 2009: The breakdown for interest does not include Wamu [...]
Forbes has an interesting collection of common traits among the latest list of Billionaires. Yahoo finance then summarized it in a series of bullet points here. They are: Their parents had a math related career. They were predominantly born in September (shoot, I was born in late August!) If they made their money in technology, [...]