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15 Real Ways to Save Money on Gasoline
As the ever-rising price of fuel puts a serious dent in consumer budgets (and summertime vacations), it’s a good time for remembering good advice from the past as well as new advice for the present on...
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Good News? Globalization Slows Down
Transportation Costs Hit the ‘New World Order’ The Sunday New York Times offered an in-depth analysis on August 3 by Larry Rohter entitled, Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization. A decade ago oil...
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We Predict Inflation Better than Experts
A very interesting piece of economic research appeared this week in ScienceDaily news service from the department of economics at Kansas State University, entitled Consumers Can Predict Inflation as...
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Rich Man’s Burden, Poor Man’s Bane
While those of us in the less-than 95th percentile of the American income scale celebrated a long Labor Day weekend with family and friends, the 2008 Presidential race heated up, took a bizarre turn,...
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“…the Government is Broke and Broken”
That’s what Angry Bear says about the government bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, announced on Sunday, September 7. It will cost the American taxpayers tens of billions of...
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Survive the ’08 Meltdown: Part 1
Roadblocks and Interference As Congress meets today and tomorrow to grill the principals before Friday’s vote on the $700 billion “emergency” Wall Street bailout plan (which has been in the works for...
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Survive the ’08 Meltdown: Part 2
Food: Eating What You Can Get World markets continue to take dramatic hits and the Dow has fallen below 10,000 for the first time in four years. Seems a lot of banks and other players are unhappy with...
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Kids Heading for College? Good Luck With That.
Even way back last August, before the economy was officially in terminal free fall, the issues surrounding a college education were in the news. CNN Money asked, Is college still worth the price? Most...
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Economic Meltdown: IMF Involvement?
For a great many regular hard-working, tax-paying American citizens the way money works in the modern world is very much a mystery. This is not surprising, considering that money has always been a...
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Health Care Kabuki Theater Deluxe
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...
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