Dec
18
My credit card rate doubled!
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I have a washington mutual credit card, with a modest credit line. I admittedly ran into some credit trouble and slow payment times when at college, so I like to keep a bit of a balance on my card, hovering right around 30%. I have savings with ING Direct, making a pretty decent interest rate.
I [...]
Dec
17
Putting the Economic Bailout in Perspective
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I wanted to write about one more thing, today. What $700 Billion actually means.
In 2006, an estimated 135.5 million americans filed tax returns. Of those, it’s estimated that 32% had zero or negative tax liability. That leaves 90.8 million people filing tax returns with tax liabilities.
Now, I realize that different people pay a different amount [...]
Dec
17
More rant on the economic bailout
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So, it’s been a while since they’ve announced the bailout. I’ve calmed down a bit, but still think it is somewhat of another “middle class gets screwed” situation.
You have an Harvard Business School alumn with a bank account of $700 billion able to write checks to anyone and everyone he sees fit. “Hank” Paulson is [...]
Aug
19
What do you do if you are expecting failure?
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Failure is a part of life. We all are familiar with and understand this cliche way of looking at failure. There is no possible way that a person can go through life expecting to succeed at everything. There are those who got to where they are because they are lucky, and there are people who [...]
Aug
10
Email Marketing Failure
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So I was reading my gmail the other day and got an email from a guy’s website that I had visited a while back, that teaches about personal finance. I decided to sign up for his newsletter just to try it out. His emails were quite ineffective at first, so I just deleted them usually [...]