Archive for October, 2007
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Death and Taxes 2008 Poster
Short post today. I found what looks to be an awesome poster for anybody who cares where their federal tax dollars go. It is a poster that is packed full of information based off the President’s 2008 budget request.
Now, I now this sounds like about the last thing anybody would be interested in hanging on [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Taxes by Jack
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Wal-Mart is Bad for US(A)
This is part 2 discussing how Wal-Mart has impacted the US economy. Part 1, which briefly discusses some positives can be found at Walmart is Good For US(A). There will eventually be a follow-up post with my own stance on this subject, and if there are enough quality comments between these two posts, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Consumption by Jack
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Walmart is Good For US(A)
Wal-Mart is not an uncontroversial company in America. In many ways, the story of Wal-Mart is the story of two companies. One is the ultra-competitive retail giant that is able to force suppliers to help them sell us lots of products at low prices. The other is a mega-corporation that is so obsessed [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Consumption by Jack
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Too Much is Bad Debt
This is part 3 of a series talking about bad debt. The parent post is at What to do about Bad Debt. Part one can be found at What to do about Bad Debt and part 2 is at The Terms of Bad Debt.
This post talks about how Too Much of a good thing [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Debt by Jack
Monday, October 8th, 2007
The Terms of Bad Debt
This is part 2 in a series about bad debt. The parent is at What to do about Bad Debt and part one can be found at The Motivation Behind Bad Debt.
Unfortunately, not everything is simply a matter of cash or credit. With the wrong financial advisers or a bad financial background it is [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Credit Terms, Debt by Jack
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Carnivalof Personal Finance #121
Ask Mr Credit Card hosts the 12st Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance this week. He does something a bit different, posing the carnival as a presidential debate, linking in personal finance blogs and posts throughout. Very creative and well done.
In addition to including How To Live on Minimum Wage, there are a number [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in carnival by Jack
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
The Motivation Behind Bad Debt
This is part 1 of 3 articles discussing what makes a debt a Bad Debt to have. The parent article is What to do about Bad Debt.
Here is a short post from Debt Consolidation Lowdown called Live Within Your Means that touches on a similar topic.
Motive is the greatest and most difficult [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Credit Terms, Debt by Jack
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
What to do about Bad Debt
Now that we have discussed what makes up Good Debt in How to decide if something is Good Debt, lets turn our attention to Bad Debt.
Bad Debt can have a lot of elements that make it bad. Sometimes it is just one reason that makes us consider something Bad Debt. Other times, there are [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Credit Terms, Debt by Jack
Friday, October 5th, 2007
How to decide if something is Good Debt
As I am not the first person to discuss good debt, lets treat the topic a little bit differently. In this post, you will find a list to a number of other posts and online articles that discuss Good Debt. After each link, you will find a single sentence with the most important [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Credit Terms, Debt by Jack
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Upgrade time
Just a quick notice for everybody that I am in the process of upgrading to the current version of Wordpress. Based on the information I have about performing the upgrade, it is possible that some things on the site may be temporarily broken. The expectation is that you will see little or no [...]
