I’ve been thinking about starting my own personal finance blog for a long time, but was worrying that it might be too time-consuming, as I already work full-time, manage a business website for my dad, and am trying to get my own webcomic/writing website off the ground. So, when I saw yesterday’s post, I just [...]
The next time you’re in a GM dealership, you might have the ability to try one of their cars and then try one of it’s competing models from another car maker. Why? Because GM has decided to give their customers a easy way to compare. And it’s brilliant.
Besides the fact that customers seem to prefer [...]
Call me a doomsayer if you like, but it’s all coming down now. Not in a big crash as some had expected, but it certainly is deflating. Washington Mutual announced their numbers yesterday and their profit is down 20%. Why? Deflating Real Estate loans.
a loss in its home loans unit, driven mainly by subprime lending [...]
Unlike the “Godless” Washington Dollars that began surfacing last month, there are some Faceless Washington Dollars that are beginning to surface now. These new errors are completely blank. They have no stampings of any sort and really are just the Planchet for the coin. How they slipped through the strict U.S. Mint [...]
Honestly. What blind person designed the new Presidential $1 coins? And furthermore, who approved the design. Have you seen them?
George Washington looks like he’s ready to kill someone. John Adams looks like he could star in the next production of CATS. Thomas Jefferson has a major unibrow thing going on and his cheek looks like [...]
It seems that Google has been working on the dreaded “quotes delayed up to 20 minutes” message that everyone gets with their stock quotes. Unless you pay for realtime quotes that is.
In cooperation with the NYSE, SEC, and Netcoalition, they’ve worked on a proposition put forth by the NYSE to the SEC that would allow [...]
Skip McGrath has an interesting bit of news about a ring of thieves that was arrested in the Seattle area sometime last weekend.
They were following the US Mail trucks. Whenever the mailman dropped off a package on some one’s front porch, the thieves would swoop in and grab the package as soon as the mailman [...]
Many of us claim that our money disappears before we get a chance to spend it, but this is a little extreme.
German officials are trying to figure out how some 1,500 euro bank notes were contaminated with acid, sometimes causing the bills to disintegrate.
Imagine getting your money from an ATM and having it fall apart [...]
Bill Ford stepped down as the CEO of Ford Motor company. His replacement, Alan Mulally, has been credited with a turnaround in the Boing aerospace division.
I think it’s fairly obvious that Bill Ford was not doing a very good job as CEO of the family company. Ford has tanked and the auto’s that they are [...]
A bartender at a Applebees received a $10,000 tip from a regular customer. Wow, what would you do with a $10,000 tip? I can tell you what I would do. I’d pay off about 8,000 worth of debt. Then I’d put about 1500 into savings and spend the last 500. Not this money saavy bartender.(that’s [...]
