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Christmas: Not the Time To Go Into Debt

By ⋅ December 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

My life with debt has seen its ups and downs.  When I got out of college, one of my first big purchases was a used car.  It cost me $6,000, for which I took out my first auto-loan.  Of course, with little expenses1 and a full time job, I was able to repay the loan [...]

Straight Talk on The Debt Ceiling

By ⋅ July 23, 2011 ⋅ One comment

You know what really gets me going—the political theater that’s going on in Washington right now.  For weeks I’ve been mulling over this thing, and I’ve come to a few conclusions.

Is This The End of the United States of America?

By ⋅ March 11, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Depending on who you read, this country is in for a bumpy ride.  The problem centers on a debt spiral that is out of control, and only getting worse. The latest reason for this pessimism comes from some recent statistics—35 percent of wages and salaries this year come from social welfare benefits such as Medicare, [...]

Mortgaging Tomorrow for What?

By ⋅ June 23, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Why is it that the people that we elect to office just don’t get it? It seems like a brilliant plan: Let’s reward people who buy homes1 with money back if they buy in a specific time period—that’ll lower the cost of buying a house now, so more people will buy houses, and that’ll boost [...]

Short Sale on Your Mortgage

By ⋅ April 26, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Are you facing foreclosure?  Is the bank looking to reposes your home? We are facing tough economic times, and with the prices of housing falling—and due to fall more once the prices fall after the expiration of the Obama Stimulus plan—many people have found themselves behind on their mortgages without the ability to make their [...]

Personal vs. Business

By ⋅ January 20, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Isn’t it amazing?  You go to multiple people, you get different answers! As you know, I make money off blogging.  I make it in various ways, but I’m no where close to making money exclusively off blogging. However, I’d like to have a separate account for the thing so I can manage it better.  Every [...]

So It’s Ok if We’re Slaves to China?

By ⋅ September 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the common refrains that have been sung over and over recently is how that “going green” will help us to declare freedom from foreign oil—because we’ll need less of it.  In essence, what our government is trying to tell us is that we are slaves to foreign oil, having to pay them lavish [...]

How Does $1 a Day Sound?

By ⋅ June 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A program in Greensboro, NC has added a financial incentive to keeping pure– $1 a day for ever day that they keep from getting pregnant. Brown said she hopes the program, which pays $1 each day to 12-to-18-year-old girls, will keep them from getting pregnant. In addition to remaining pregnancy-free, the girls must also attend [...]

Too Big To Fail?

By ⋅ March 9, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

In case you’re new to the planet, many things in this life happen in cycles.  Whether it’s the seasons, the stock market, or governments, there are times where things grow and time where things contract, and it’s for the good of all things. A recession or contraction is actually beneficial for an economy, because it’s [...]

The Financial Mess Is Good

By ⋅ October 30, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s kinda weird to talk about, in light of what’s going on in my life, but in a strange way this credit mess can actually be a good thing, if you look at it with the right perspective. Up until now, credit has made up a large portion of our GDP.  It’s been a big [...]

Stimulus Package as Socialism

By ⋅ October 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

So, the Democrats are discussing having yet another stimulus package to help us through this crisis.  We have come a long way from when stimulus packages were just a gimmick when Pres. George W. Bush had one in his first year in office. However, I think that this is a bad idea.

Dreaming of a One World Currency

By ⋅ October 11, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

I’ve always believed that one of the signs that we would be near the One World Order that marked the beginning of the tribulation period would be the rise of a One World Currency.  The widely popular Left Behind Series has three currencies at the beginning of it, and they become one during the series. [...]

The Bailout and Duck Tales

By ⋅ October 2, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

Who would have guessed you could learn so much about inflation from a kid’s cartoon? I used to watch Duck Tales and the whole Disney afternoon back in the 80s and 90s, and though I don’t remember the episode you’ll see after the jump, there’s quite the simple explanation of why just pumping more money [...]

How’s Your Financial Health?

By ⋅ September 12, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

So, this morning I was presented with a chance to go through some questions about my fiscal health.  Getting out of debt was an extremely freeing experience that I recommend for everyone.  Contrary to the image at the right, I received a 92% A from billsIQ for my financial health—but they reminded me of a [...]

Caring for One Another in the Age of Affluence

By ⋅ July 28, 2008 ⋅ 10 comments

Over this weekend tragedy struck a family in our church.  It happened right at the end of my garage sale—or at least that’s when I saw it. I was on my way back to the church to return some tables that I had borrowed when I saw smoke billowing across the main artery I was [...]

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