While weekly wages have seemingly kept up with inflation, the true increase in the cost of living has outpaced our ability to buy the same amount of weekly goods in real weight and real count.
So if you listen to WABC Radio 77 in New York you most likely have heard the infomercial on Vitamin D from Dr John Cannell where he will send you a free bottle of his Vitamin D for only $4.95 in shipping. But do not do this. It is a waste of money.
If there is one bit of financial advice that I want my readers to get from my blog it is this: Do not buy 24 kt gold-plated coins from anyone. I have been buying coins from the public for more than 33 years and I have never once come across anyone who has ever gotten more for their gold-plated coins than they had paid.
There are people out there who think paying more for something means one is getting a superior product, faster service or something better out of the deal.
A friend of mine was breaking up with his girlfriend of five years and was asked to kindly leave (the house they were living in belonged to her parents). Over the years he accumulated a lot of stuff and so he asked me if I could recommend a self-storage facility because he was moving in with a friend but his friend's apartment was too small for all his belongings.
Obama: Alright, America, quit your bitching. I am trying to fix this shit, just calm down and hand me the duct tape.
First, let me put this in context: unless you are a buying a home or car with your spouse, do not cosign any loan. That is, if a relative, any relative, even your parents, siblings, or children come to you asking that you cosign a loan for something that will not be a shared asset, the answer must be 'No.'
It is believed by many that the highway system, dams, bridges, and other government construction projects created millions of jobs thereby increasing the standard of living; projects which it is believed would never have taken place but for the actions of our government.
Violence in inner city schools is mostly a black problem, or so Jesse Jackson writes. Because banks charge more interest to those who can hardly pay off their loans, Jackson calls them "predatory lenders". Because these poor blacks are "fleeced" they are forced into a life of violence and crime.
There are two types of causation in the law, cause-in-fact and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is determined by the "but-for" test: but for the action, the result would not have happened. In the current financial crisis but for the Community Reinvestment Act there would not have been trillions of dollars of worthless mortgages, nor would AIG have insured those worthless mortgage packages, nor would banks be holding toxic assets.
