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After reading a lot of bad news about credit cards lately, there’s finally a little bit of good news. In a story that comes from the Washington Post (which I can’t link to because you have to be a subscriber to read it, which I am), it stated that more and more banks are reaching [...]
The date was 9/11/01; the time was 8:46AM. The stock market was supposed to open that day; it didn’t. Other than holidays or weekends, the stock market had never been closed for any other reason. This was the day it all changed. The stock market stayed closed for days. I don’t think anyone cared. I [...]
Although I shouldn’t be surprised, I am depressed about it. Seems the United States isn’t the top economy anymore. What’s stunning is that I expected the report, from the World Economic Forum in Geneva, actually has Switzerland as the top economy. Sorry, but isn’t this the same Switzerland that basically bent over and said “thank [...]
I’ve decided to pause for a bit on the budgeting posts. The statistics seem to indicate that almost no one is reading them, and they take a lot of work, so maybe I’ll save the rest of this series until there’s more readers of this blog. In the meantime, I’m going to use this bit [...]
In a report that should have shocked no one, the Labor Department announced that the unemployment rate went up to 9.7% from 9.4% in August. Job losses beat new jobs for the 20th month in a row. In a year, unemployment has risen from 6.2% to where it is now. I point that one out, [...]
While other car makers seem to be struggling for profits, Hyundai has continued to show that money can be made even during a recession. Hyundai announced a 47% increase in car sales over the same period last year. It was also a 33% increase over last month. Those are phenomenal numbers, and the types of [...]
In part one of creating your chart of payments, I stopped at the point where you’ve created your main sheet. Now we’re going to move forward with the rest of the process. Click on the square between A and 1 once. That should highlight the entire page. Right click, and select copy. Then go to [...]