The 12 Days of Christmas During a Recession

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Subscribing is a great way to avoid being asked to come in on SaturdayReady or not, the Christmas season is upon us. In fact, I am already being subjected to non-stop Christmas songs at work. As most of us wonder [...]

Is it Time to Put a Blogger in the White House?

In their infinite wisdom, the MSN Smart Spending Blog has once again wrote about one of my posts. Thank you to Karen Datko for featuring my post, An idiot’s guide to fix the economy in her recent blog MSN post. Previously, Karen had wrote about my “Sale” can Sometimes be Just Another [...]

An Idiot’s Guide to Fix the Economy

Today at work, there really was only one major topic discussed–the stock market and the economy. Everyone wants to know if we will ever be able to retire, what bank will fail next, and if we are about to descend into a second depression. But don’t worry America, I have come up with [...]

Recession Proof Businesses

Holy ressession proof industry Batman, The Dark Knight movie set a new record by making $155.34 in its first weekend of release. Yes, these numbers are helped by the fact that the average price of a movie ticket is over $7 (where I live it is $9), but that is still a lot of [...]

5 Avoidable Obstacles on the Road to Financial Recovery

Once again at work, I heard a troubling description of one of my co-workers problems with debt. This poor soul has over $80,000 in credit card debt, does not own any property, and is in his mid-fifties. Although it was painful to hear his story, the pragmatic part of my brain kept on [...]

Financial Health Days

I’m sure everyone has heard of and probably taken their fair share of Mental Health Days. When your job just pushes you over the edge with stress and aggravation, nothing beats a day off to relax and reload.

Considering the current economy and the millions of Americans burdened with debt, President Bush and Congress recently [...]