Archive for January, 2009
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Suggesting that retailers “are closer to working men and women… than any other industry,” Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott addressed the public once more in his farewell address after ten years at the helm of the retail megastore.
Scott offered a candid take on the country’s current economy and where it’s ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Just because you’re in a bind financially doesn’t mean that you’ve got to settle your collegiate aspirations. The Princeton Review’s “2009 Best Value Colleges” report suggests that there are a number of extremely reputable colleges and universities, both private and public, working hard to help qualifying students pay for their ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
There’s a brief exchange I had a few years ago with a friend’s father that I’ll never forget. We were sitting outside a Washington DC lunch spot talking about what I was going to do when I got out of college when I asked Mark, who’s been a real estate ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Gas prices rose for the sixth consecutive day Monday, putting the national average at $1.842 a gallon. It’s a figure that’s 3 full cents higher than Friday’s figures.
Gas Comparisons Over the Last Year
Despite the temporary jump in prices, gas is still selling for 39% of what it sold for last ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
If you’re financially stable enough to have trips to foreign countries planned in the coming months you might want to be keeping an eye on the foreign exchange rates. The value of the American dollar has been in steady decline for the past few years, and current figures put the ...
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Just months ago McCain was dogging Obama as non-partisan. Just weeks ago Republicans were stressing the need for both parties to work together in order to pull us out of our financial downward spiral. Seems they have short memories.
The first jab came just minutes after the presidential oath was flubbed. ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
If you were planning on holding off on making a charitable donation until after February, it may be time to reconsider. The American Council on Gift Annuities, the organization that operates under an exemption from federal antitrust laws and sets rates on charitable gift annuities, announced recently that they plan ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
That optimistic stock report we brought you a couple weeks ago is now officially old news. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped for the sixth day in a row yesterday, with its 250 point loss pitting the Dow at its lowest point since December 1.
The same can be said about ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama’s proposed economic stimulus package has garnered a great deal of hope and optimism from those being directly affected by the recession, but that doesn’t exactly mean our country’s financial tide will turn on January 20 when the Illinois senator is sworn into office.
In fact, Obama’s camp has ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
In light of the messy economic situation and the hardships our government is expecting Americans to endure in the coming months, the IRS has loosened its generally tight grip on the way it does business. Taxpayers should expect a little more leeway when it comes to paying their taxes, among ...
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