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This might be the best kept secret that everyone should know about, but yet I don’t hear many people talking about at all. If you purchase a new home this year, and you’re a first time home owner, you’ll potentially qualify for a tax credit of $8,000 from the federal government. And, in some states [...]
I’ve been talking a lot lately about health care issues here, but that’s where the news is taking me. This past weekend there was more news that came about, so here we go again. President Obama, in his Saturday weekly radio address, stated that he’s looking to eliminate $313 billion in payments from Medicare and [...]
Okay, I’ve seen this before and didn’t like it. Last week, President Obama said that he’d take into consideration a health care plan that taxed health care benefits that presently are non-taxable, if needed to fund his universal health care program. This is the same plan that John McCain was pushing during his run at [...]
Time Magazine’s online magazine has a new story titled Top Ten Crooked CEOs. It actually comes out being 11, since the very first one they show is actually two people, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling of Enron. Just to throw this in, I always had a feeling that Kenneth Lay was actually railroaded into a [...]
There was a news story that came out last week stating that legislation was introduced to allow merchants and vendors to negotiate directly with Visa, Mastercard, and others, instead of having to go through the banks, thereby possibly being able to save a lot of money on credit card fees. The measure is called the [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the problem of fake insurance plans taking advantage of people. Today I’m going in a slightly different direction, because many of these people, including myself, have insurance. Back in January I wrote about the most important financial consideration being health care coverage. After a story came out yesterday saying that 60% [...]
This seems timely, especially since I’m now promoting eHealthInsurance at the top of my blog. CNN recently did a news story on people who have been scammed by fake insurance plans. In these cases, people who were in dire health straits would look on the internet, find someone purporting to cover a certain area of [...]