Interesting piece on Yahoo Finance from Robert Kiyosaki about the decline of the American Empire and buying silver…
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception. We’ve fought too many foreign wars, swept too many domestic problems under the rug, and paid for our greedy consumption with money borrowed from too [...]
Bet you will never see that on the front page of the New York Times…mass pandemonium would break out! From the London Telegraph, and interesting piece on how they see our economy:
The verdict is in. The Fed’s emergency rate cuts in January have failed to halt the downward spiral towards a full-blown debt deflation. [...]
I have not made any secret of the fact that I am not a fan of G.W., so knowing this will be his last federal budget has me glowing. That being said, I just started taking a look at some of the numbers and facts of the 2009 Federal Budget, and a few of the [...]
From Raw Story:
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, says plenty of questions remain about revelations the New England Patriots spied on the New York Jets earlier this season, secretly videotaping defensive coaches’ signals to players during a game. “The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity [...]
With all that is going on with the U.S. economy lately, I got curious about inflation rates around the world. As of December 2007, the rate in the U.S. was 4.08%, which is not too high, considering what other countries have for rates. Here are the 10 countries with the highest inflation rates from 2007:
1. [...]
Interested in seeing how your tax dollars are wasted? CAGW is a website that I check out quite often, and this morning they announced that voting was open to determine the politician who spends more of your money on wasteful pork projects! Here is the list, and you can go vote at the link [...]
*Update – Ron Paul Supporters – please visit this site. Thank you to Guinness for pointing that out!
Lately, I have been getting a lot of spam about Ron Paul from bloggers on all different kinds of sites but especially personal finance ones. And at first I looked into this guy but I then started [...]
Under current laws, small businesses are not allowed to earn interest on checking accounts…which I find to be the most asinine thing ever. But Nydia Velazquez, Chairwoman of the House Small Business Committee, is introducing a bill known as “The Business Checking Fairness Act” which will turn that all around and give a little more [...]
Update: Fixed the broken links, sorry about that!
We have been contemplating a move to the country once we start having kids because A. buying a house here in Los Angeles is cost prohibitive and B. we are not sure we want our kids going to the public schools here. We do live in one of [...]
The Tax Carnival #14 is up over at Don’t Mess With Taxes today. With tax day fast approaching, now might be a good time to review all the posts in preparation for the big day. Lucky for me, my post about how the government wastes your tax dollars was included. Be sure [...]
We had a $10 dollar bill the other day show up at home that felt kind of weird to us, so I went looking for some information on how to tell a counterfeit bill from a real one.
It’s pretty amazing, really, the differences between “money” paper and “regular” paper. It turns out that paper [...]
I am sorry that this is not really personal finance related, but it is kind of “personal” related as it one day could affect any and/or all of us. A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that a woman who smokes marijuana to stay alive is not immune to prosecution on drug charges…huh? With [...]
If your best friend or a family member was filing a fraudulent tax return, would you turn them in? I mean, if they are not paying their fair share, that means everyone else is eventually going to have to cover it for them…so should you turn them in? The IRS is trying to [...]
We all know that the government tends to spend a lot of our tax dollars unwisely, but just HOW bad is it? The people over at Citizens Against Government Waste have just released their 2007 PIG Book, which is an annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. This years book [...]
