Personal Finance Advice

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

WSJ Tries Blaming Economic Woes on People Being Frugal
Porn industry seeks federal bailout
If You Don’t Need It, It’s Not A Bargain At All
Lenders digging up more than your credit score [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

How we went from $42,000 to $6,500 and lived to tell about it
The difference between a recession and a depression
The Worst Financial Predictions About 2008
The Credit Card & College Link
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Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

2009: A year of Economic Hell
Truck and SUV sales rising, hybrid sales fall as gas prices drop
The Rise of the Four-Day Work Week?
New Capitalism: Overvalued assets must not be allowed [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

The Obama economic stimulus: Everybody gets to refinance their house at 4.5%
Meet the family who live on $44K a year — debt-free
Bush: “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system”
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Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Americans’ debt shrinks – 1st time ever
Trickledown Downsizing
Eight of the market’s sharpest thinkers: The future is frightening
Recession Special: Buy one car, get one free
Why Bailouts Are Dangerous
Buy Short-Term [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Koobface Virus: Facebook Virus Being Used to Steal Credit Card Numbers
Predicting $25 a Barrel Oil
Tax-free Capital Gains Are Here
Having Sex to Save Money
The worst jobs with the best pay
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Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Black Friday 10: Retailers that may not survive until 2009
The Holiday Season Is Already Over For Retailers
Drinking tap water can save you $1,400 a year
20 tycoons who have lost billions [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Big Three auto CEOs flew private jets to ask for taxpayer money
This is when you know the Economy is Doomed!
Savers caused the financial crisis
Worst Year Ever for Stocks: ‘Irrational Exuberance’ [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

The Economy: Hundreds Line Up For Jobs At New In-N-Out
GM failure: The shockwave
Homeowner denial: My home is gaining value
Whitehead sees slump worse than Depression
Banks raising fees–again!
American buying binge [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

People having trouble paying their utility bills
In this economy, even sex doesn’t sell
Food storage makes a come back
Do you save too much?
Do you believe in ILLUMINATI?
How I beat [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Why am I being punished for having bought a house I could afford?
Made 1000% now quiting his job
Banks asking for credit card debt forgiveness
A Rate of Zero Percent From the [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Americans finally start saving again
Tips for New Paupers
Searching For a Market Bottom? Keep Looking
10 more reasons you are not wealthy
Grain piles up in ports
Worst yearly slump for S&P [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Why Asian Foods Save You Money
Where the pros are putting their cash
U.S. may take stakes in banks
Iceland’s Banking System has been Nationalised
Will a freezer save you money?
Top 10 [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Buffett: “We had an economic Pearl Harbor hit”
September Madness
Opinion From A Well Run Bank (pdf)
Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than Homeownership
The Case for Doing Nothing
Main Street’s Rage at [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

43 Mortgages Within Same Family
What really killed WaMu?
What Are the Economic Collapse Indicators to Watch For?
An odd welfare story
The Power of Negative Thinking
5 percent on CDs may not [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

International Central Banks Team Up
Governement Planning to Transfer All Bad Bank Debt to Taxpayers
SEC Plans to Temporarily Ban Short-Selling
Government Buying Bad Debt
Money market accounts not so safe
Bernanke: “We [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

21% of those making over $100k are living paycheck to paycheck
Earn an A? Here’s $50. C? Here’s $20
Woman Auctioning Her Virginity For College Tuition
The Key to Wedded Bliss? Money Matters
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Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Inexpensive ways to improve value of house
Homebuyers turn screws on sellers
Is It Time For A Sex Tax?
Professor Claims It’s More Stressful To Be Rich Than Poor
Rebuttal: Professor Claims It’s [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Does $250K per year make you rich?
Pinching pennies like your grandparents
Vacation Homes Without All the Expense
Cash only, please
Is Organic Food Worth The Price?
Alabama Taxes Fat People
Worth Its [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Printer Ink Hacks: How to fight back when your printer says you’re out of ink
Where to turn when you’re desperate
The Next Credit Crunch
Savers are the losers in today’s tough times
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