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Archives for 2008

Raising a Financially Savvy Child

My wife, daughter and I were sitting at the breakfast table this morning when my daughter, who’s 5, randomly told my wife, "There are a lot of advertisements that are just trying to take our money."  Over the last year or so when we are reading the paper and looking at advertisements I’ve tried to make a point to our daughter that sometimes you can

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It’s Hard To Ignore The Wall Street Mess

I have to admit I’m spending a lot of time reading the latest news about the potential bailout on Wall Street.  The latest is that they are considering adding executive compensation caps to the proposal.  I still haven’t read anything about limiting the power and scope that this proposal would give to the executive branch.  The two things that bother me most about this potential

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Should We Let The Greedy Bastards Fail?

David at My Two Dollars has a couple of posts that I was going to do myself but he did a fine job so I’m just going to link to him.  I am finding myself more and more angry that we are looking at more than a Trillion dollar bailout for Wall Street.  If they enact this, at the minimum I’d like to see: -Drastically

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Too Many Clothes In Her Closet So She’s Standing In Line To Buy More!

I couldn’t resist pointing this out.  There is a grand opening of a new H&M store in Seattle today.  People waited in line for hours to get in to this store.  Never mind the fact that there is an existing store 10 miles south of this location.  What really made me shake my head was this quote from the article: "I have way too many

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Responsible Citizens Being Dragged Down By the Reckless

Well, here we are.  We’ve been talking about it for months on blogs all around the Internet.  All of us that are managing our money in a responsible way have been wondering how much of an impact the irresponsible could have on our financial well being.  It seems to be slowly coming clear now and it doesn’t look good. Who am I talking about?  Well,

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It’s Hard To Predict Which Company Is Most Secure

As I watch the meltdown of major financial firms I’m paying particularly close attention to WAMU.  They have a huge presence where I’m at and many thousands of people work for them around here.  At one point I considered being a customer of Washington Mutual before I discovered credit unions. A few years ago, a friend of mine worked at my company and was concerned

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Wamu, AIG And A Side of Lehman

What a horrendous market this week.  I guess it’s not really a surprise that things are headed south.  I’ve been worrying about the overall economy and all of our country’s debt for a long time.  So, if a simple guy like me is worrying about it, there must be a real problem. I’m actually not all that terribly worried about the market.  I have $10,000

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Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 – Free and Very NICE

Last night I found myself wanting to test out some software.  I’ve been playing around with various DJ software.  Most of the versions that I’ve downloaded are demos and I really didn’t want to fill up my Vista machine with a bunch of junky software.  The solution for this was to download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.  It WORKS GREAT!  If you aren’t familiar with virtual

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