What’s Next for the Economy?
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Credit markets should improve by Thanksgiving. But we won’t see GDP growth for a year.
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Small Companies Test Innovative Ways to Cut Health Care Costs
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
As health costs continue to rise faster than inflation, some small firms are dropping coverage, but more are experimenting with new ways to provide it for less.
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Crisis Has States Reeling
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
While revenue plummets and spending needs soar, many state governments are having trouble borrowing money. Look for layoffs and project delays.
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How Much Extra Should You Pay for Fuel Efficiency? Here’s How We’re Calculating It
Monday, October 13th, 2008Over the past few weeks, my wife and I have begun seriously shopping for a replacement for my truck. There are two big reasons for this: first, my truck has a long shopping list of repairs that need to be done to it in the next six to twelve months, bills totaling about $5,000 […]
Reader Mailbag #32
Monday, October 13th, 2008Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many other things. Got a question? Ask it in the comments. You might also enjoy the archive of earlier reader mailbags.
As usual, we’ll start things off with a […]
Review: A Perfect Mess
Sunday, October 12th, 2008Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal productivity, personal development, or business/entrepreneurship book of interest.
Over the last several years, I’ve worked very hard to become more and more organized with my stuff. I used to have a very difficult time finding things that I needed when I needed them and I also […]
Talking to a Child About Home Foreclosure
Sunday, October 12th, 2008I received a heart wrenching email from a reader that I’m going to call “Peggy.” Here’s a few excerpts from that email:
[…] In short, we are going to have to be out of our house by October 24. We’re going to move in with [my brother] and his family for a while and […]
Stop Trying to Impress Other People
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Imagine, just for a moment, that you find yourself on a desert island with just you and four or five of your closest friends and relatives - the people you care about the most in this world. The only people around are the people that care about you.
On this island, you can have whatever […]
AMT Relief, Other Tax Breaks Get New Life
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Wonder what happened to some popular tax write-offs that expired in 2007? They’re back.
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Fear Rules — What’s Next for the Economy?
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Credit markets should improve by Thanksgiving. But we won’t see GDP growth for a year.
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120 Minutes
Friday, October 10th, 2008A few days ago, Seth Godin posted a brilliant piece on his blog entitled Is Effort a Myth? In it, Seth addresses the issue of luck:
And that’s the key to the paradox of effort: While luck may be more appealing than effort, you don’t get to choose luck. Effort, on the other hand, is […]
The Intelligent Investor: Introduction
Friday, October 10th, 2008This is the first in a weekly series of articles providing a chapter-by-chapter in-depth “book club” reading of Benjamin Graham’s investing classic The Intelligent Investor. Warren Buffett describes this book: “I read the first edition of this book early in 1950, when I was nineteen. I thought then that it was by far the […]
Coordinated Rate Cuts Will Have Some Impact
Friday, October 10th, 2008Other actions, including the Fed’s commercial paper purchases, are more meaningful to restoring confidence.
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Small Business Survival Strategies
Friday, October 10th, 2008Global financial panic. Credit freeze. Consumers running for cover. What’s a small business to do?
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No Big Corporate Welcome to Health Reform Plans
Friday, October 10th, 2008Corporate benefits executives fear that both John McCain’s and Barack Obama’s health care reform proposals would wreck employer-based health insurance.
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