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Suze Orman’s Advice: Don’t Be a Dog. Channel Your Inner Elephant Instead
“The elephant stays on course, moving toward its goal, regardless of all the barking and noise that swirls around him.”
‘Extreme Couponing’: More ‘Hoarders’ Than How-To
In a TV show debuting tonight on TLC, seemingly normal people exhibit some pretty strange behavior. They jump into dumpsters, steal parts of newspapers off of neighbors’ porches, and stuff their collections into elaborate storage units and under their kids’ beds. They also save tons of money on obsessively plotted shopping excursions, …
A hard look at Japan’s debt problem
Yesterday in this space, I asked if investors would come to reassess the riskiness of developed economies and usher in a “sea change” in how money is allocated around the world. Could Japan, the most indebted of all industrialized countries, be the trigger to start that dramatic process? Since the devastating earthquake and tsunami …
Survey: Inflation to Jump 200% in 2011
Among the things the recent recovery may lack – jobs, for one – there is one thing we have in abundance: Inflation worries. And why not? Food prices are rising. Gas prices are rising. And many think the Federal Reserve’s efforts to boost the economy could lead to massive inflation. About six months ago, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck began …
Survey: More Americans OK with Mortgage Default, Likely to Be “One Flat Tire Away from Financial Disaster”
In a new survey, more than one-third of adults say they are now saving less than last year, and 33% have no emergency savings whatsoever. The numbers get scarier for African Americans and Hispanics: 54% and 47%, respectively, report no rainy-day savings and are “one flat tire away from financial disaster,” says the survey’s spokesperson.
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Financial Lessons from the Final Four, Yoga, Homer Simpson, and Other Odd Sources
Continuing in a series of posts gathering financial wisdom from unusual sources—ranging from Dungeons & Dragons and Charlie Sheen to geese flying patterns and Star Wars—here are some more financial lessons found in unlikely places.
Rethinking the safe haven
I was traveling in China when the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened. My parents live in northern New Jersey, not far from New York City, and knowing my mother would be terribly worried about me, I called her to assure her all was well. “It’s not safe,” she told me anxiously. “You must come home.”
This put me in a bit of an …
Online Shoppers Search, Click, and Bargain-Hunt More Before Making Purchases
Online shoppers are getting smarter—and slower. Two years ago, consumers clicked on an online ad an average of 2.7 times before making a purchase. By early 2011, the average had risen by 15%, to 3.1 clicks. Consumers are also taking more time and are more likely to visit a competing site to check prices before pulling the trigger and …
Bailout Revelation: Fed Lent Billions to Save Libyan Bank
Last week, when the Federal Reserve finally released the names of the banks that tapped the central bank’s most secret lending program in the wake of the financial crisis many of the expect names were there. Citigroup got over $50 billion in loans. Bank of America was a big borrower, too. Goldman borrowed five times, though the amounts …
Southwest’s Stress Test
Just took another look at my flight itinerary for Tuesday: yup, I’m booked on a Boeing 737. Great. It’s not on Southwest, so should I take the flight? Is the catastrophic risk higher this week than last week? Will flying ever cease to be an annoying pain in the butt?
Yes. No. I hope so. Southwest’s issue with its 737-300s—a hole …