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Anybody Want to Fight?
Tips for battling it out with debt collectors, TV-Internet-phone providers, the IRS, and more.
80 Great ’80s Movie Quotes about Money (Cont.)
Why the ’80s? The decade was all about money, introducing the world to the yuppie and crack, along with film characters like Tony Montana and Gordon Gekko, who seemed to coin slogans about money, wealth, capitalism, and, most memorable of all, greed, every other time they spoke. (We were supposed to be reintroduced to Mr. Gekko this week …
80 Great ’80s Movie Quotes about Money
Why the ’80s? The decade was all about money, introducing the world to the yuppie and crack, along with film characters like Tony Montana and Gordon Gekko, who seemed to coin slogans about money, wealth, capitalism, and, most memorable of all, greed, every other time they spoke. (We were supposed to be reintroduced to Mr. Gekko this week …
Signs the Economy Isn’t a Total Basket Case
For quite some time, there was no shortage of indicators pointing to the fact that the economy wasn’t doing so hot—including some odd data about a falloff in men’s underwear sales, a rise in animals being abandoned at pet shelters, and the impressively overqualified status of this year’s census workers. Now, at long last, we’ve got …
A Totally Unconvincing Story about How Workers Prefer Freelancing Over Full-Time Employment
As full-time jobs dried up or disappeared during the recession, more and more workers became independent contractors, signing on for short-term projects and part-time responsibilities. And an undetermined number of these so-called “disposable workers” prefer the life of free agents, floating from gig to gig, with no benefits, and no …
The Unemployment-Tightwad Connection
An adviser to President Obama explains that low consumer demand for goods and services is what’s responsible for the country’s high unemployment rates. In other words, because people aren’t spending money, other people don’t have jobs that would have been funded largely by that spending. And why aren’t people spending? One reason is that …
Why Are Workers Happy with Fewer Benefits and Longer Hours?
To begin with, they know that such a position is better than having a job without benefits—or not having a job at all.
The Recession That Will Never End, Even Though It Already Has
Back in 2007, everybody seemed willing to believe the housing market, stock market, and economy as a whole would keep humming along uninterrupted for, well, forever. Now, few people seem to believe that the recession is over—even though it supposedly ended last summer.
Blondes Have More … Money?
Indeed, a study shows that blonde-haired women make more money than their red-headed and brunette counterparts. Less surprising: Blondes also tend to marry richer guys.
On Freelancing and Getting Paid What You’re Worth
In the modern economy, you’re more likely to be a temp, freelancer, or some other form of a no-benefits, short-term employee than you were years ago, in the era of the classic “company man.” Considering the downsides of freelancing—gigs can end at any time, the expenses of a home office, have we already mentioned no benefits?—how do …
Would You Mind Sharing Some of Your Job?
Work-sharing could help tens of thousands of employees to avoid layoffs. Here, an argument for how the American worker might spread the wealth—and the pain—during tough economic times.