September 28, 2011 in Finance & Economics | Tags: dead end, employment, Finance & Economics, labor, minimum wage, money
I regularly read a blog called Hope to Prosper. The author, Bret, often addresses personal finance issues not covered by others. Just as often, he gives an old topic new life with a thoughtful post that looks at things from a new angle. This week, illustrating how a career can become a non-starter, Bret wrote [...]
November 16, 2010 in Army, Finance & Economics | Tags: advertising, Army, Finance & Economics, interest, Military, money, rip-off, shopping, Sony, Veterans' Day
As a rule, people in the military aren’t the most financially savvy folks you’ll ever meet. Graduating from high school and going straight to a job that provides you with the necessities of life and a paycheck to spend as you please results in a lack of financial literacy, especially among younger soldiers. As a [...]
November 14, 2010 in Army, Finance & Economics | Tags: Army, calculator, deployment, excel, Finance & Economics, money
So I’ve been in Afghanistan for about a week and a half now, and my lack of posting is due more to laziness than to being busy. In the meantime, since I know a lot of people who are deployed or deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan, I decided to put together this Excel spreadsheet to [...]
October 12, 2010 in Finance & Economics | Tags: Finance & Economics, homeless, money, poverty, share the wealth, taxes
This is a guest post by Marc Brown, who is associated with Oak View Law Group. He also maintains some quality blogs & web sites. Wealth is most often the root of all evil and source of every discrepancy from time immemorial. It is connected to every other human being on the planet in some [...]
September 14, 2010 in Finance & Economics | Tags: business, consumerism, customer service, ING Direct, money, rip-off, t-mobile, Verizon, wal-mart
How often do you hear someone say, “I hate [insert company]!”? Every one of us has had that experience before, but how many of us have actually stopped doing business with the offender? Here are a few of the companies I like doing business with, and a few I absolutely hate.