NCN over at No Credit Needed found a site that calculates the cost to drive your vehicle. Being a car lover like I am, I’m always curious about the price of particular trips. Normally I use the IRS figure to calculate my real cost to drive somewhere. This site seems to just use the gas price. JD at Get Rich Slowly continues his tradition of
Wow. That’s about all I can say when I watch this video. Boston Gal has a video on her site of a home being "trashed out" in California. Trash out is when a company comes in and removes all of the stuff that was left when a family has to leave their home due to foreclosure. I was shocked to see what people left behind.
David at My Two Dollars has a couple of posts that I was going to do myself but he did a fine job so I’m just going to link to him. I am finding myself more and more angry that we are looking at more than a Trillion dollar bailout for Wall Street. If they enact this, at the minimum I’d like to see: -Drastically
You can see the latest carnival at Broke Grad Student: http://www.brokegradstudent.com/carnival-of-personal-finance-167-highlights-from-the-beijing-2008-olympics/
I’ve been reading Rob Cockerham’s website for a long time. He’s done some pretty funny things over the years. If you’ve never spent any time surfing around his site, I’d highly recommend it. His latest "project" had him posting a "found money" listing on Craigslist. He was curious to see what kind of a response he’d get. He’s convinced one group was trying to pull
You know how I love reading about the trials and tribulations of lottery winners. Brad Duke is the example of someone that knew how to turn his lottery winnings in to a life long investment. Unfortunately most other people aren’t that successful with their winnings. Take Rhoda Toth as an example. She won $13 million 18 years ago and has long since gambled and spent
I just discovered the next movie I want to see. It’s called IOUSA and is a documentary about the massive debt we have in our country and what the long term implications are. It isn’t being released on a large scale but I was able to find some theatres near me that will be showing it. Here is the link to the official movie site:
Interesting article that talks about the total net worth of the US and then divides that by the price of oil. It turns out that 400 billion barrels of oil would buy the entire US. Saudi Arabia and Iran have just enough proven reserves to cover it. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/HowMuchOilItdTakeToBuyTheUS.aspx If only oil wasn’t such a valuable natural resource and we had other alternatives. Oh, and then
This doesn’t sound all that different than an article you might read in the US. The only difference is that Macedonia has a 35% unemployment rate and poverty is huge. Families use the motto "You only live once" to rationalize the huge expense and potential debt for years. They actually get bank loans to throw the parties. I think that most of these parties are
I stumbled on to this interesting site today. Basically it’s a site that asks for anonymous information about how much you make at your company and then posts it anonymously for all the other members to see. It’s sort of like NetworthIQ but for salaries instead of net worth. I haven’t actually signed up for it yet, but I’m thinking about it. If they have
