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NYTimes.com to Charge Loyal Readers in 2011
The New York Times website will take a large leap of faith beginning in January 2011. The newspaper will begin to charge frequent visitors a flat-rate fee for unlimited access to the site’s content. A few initial articles will be free but after that, it’s a game of pay to play unless you already subscribe [...]
Options for Sharing Files & Photos Online While Maintaining Your Privacy
It’s hard to imagine that just fifteen years ago we were sharing files with one another by means of a slow, magnetic and relatively unreliable format called the floppy disk. After the demise of the floppy disk, there was a move towards flash memory such as Compact Flash, SD Cards, and USB thumb drives. All [...]
A Funny Carnival of Personal Finance Has Been Published (#175)
Budgets are Sexy offers up this week’s personal finance carnival in a funny way! Lots of great articles and tips included, so be sure to head over and check it out (and don’t miss the jokes!) Here are my favorites from the week: Debt Freedom Fighter from Discover Debt Freedom presents 3 Indicators that a [...]
The End of the Era: Payphones Going Away in the United States
From the early part of the 20th century all the way through the late 1990’s, payphones have been an integral part of the communications infrastructure in the United States. We would use them to call our loved ones when we were traveling or just away from home and the idea of carrying a phone with [...]
Why a Higher Interest Rate Isn’t Always Better When Investing
Investing has always been a bit of a tricky business. You need to balance a good mix of risk and reward with your money. There are examples of people and organizations who have tipped this balance too far in one direction or another. For example, A number municipalities and school systems in the state of [...]
Business Scams Heat Up as Economy Cools Down
As clouds cover the economic skies, inevitably some individuals will lose their job. Out of desperation, they look for all sorts of alternative and creative ways to provide for their family. Some pickup whatever work they can, others sell some of their possessions, and some people get pulled into all sorts of rip-off business scams [...]
Social Security Bankrupt by 2042, Plan Your Own Retirement.
Most mainstream economists, including those who published the Social Security Trustees Report, who have done calculations as to how long the Social Security trust fund can last believe that we’re moving in a very negative direction, and that the trust fund which holds excess Social Security dollars that is currently paying many of our current [...]
Falling Like Dominoes: E-Loan Next Major Bank to Get Hit By Sub-Prime Mortgage Woes
For the last few years, you could fall over backwards and get a mortgage. You could get a loan just by telling someone on a handshake what your income is without ever even proving that fact with documentation. Mortgage companies were selling people loans that amortized over 50 years and loans in which the payments [...]
E*Trade and Bank of America Get What’s Coming to Them for Offering Exotic Mortgages
For the last five years or so, many of the nation’s major banks and financial institutions have been originating all sorts of non-traditional mortgages such as interest only loans, adjustable rate mortgages, mortgages with balloons, fifty year mortgages, and a whole slew of other financial products that no consumer should ever buy. Unsurprisingly, many consumers [...]
I agree. If a local business is the one offering the sale price I will buy it from them. ...
We are retired and live on a grocery budget of $200 a month for 2 people in the Midwest. That ...