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The Dow Jones Industrials took it on the chin for most of May, finishing with the worst performance in 70 years. Even though it came up from its fall under 10,000, closing at 10,136.63 on Friday, the final figure was a 7.9% loss for the month. It’s the percentage that makes May 1940 worse, as [...]
We all knew it was coming, and today it finally came. The Dow Jones Industrials has been up and down, riding an interesting roller coaster over the past couple of weeks that saw it drop below 10,000 a couple of times, only to rally back above the mark by the close of the day. Last [...]
What a wild ride on Wall Street this past week. With worries about many countries in the European Union, the fall of the price of oil, and of course the massive oil spill that seems to be taking a life of its own, numbers were dropping for much of the week, even falling below that [...]
Near the beginning of April I wrote a post about how Black Farmers would be getting restitution from the federal government, finally, many years after they’d lost a lawsuit proving that there had been discriminatory practices. Suffice it to say, just because a lawsuit awards money doesn’t mean that the loser is going to pay. [...]
By now, everyone knows that there’s been a credit card reform bill that was supposed to make a lot of positive changes for consumers. Truthfully, there have been some nice changes, especially if you’ve taken a look at your credit card bill and seen the little graph that shows how your balance will be paid [...]
Last week my wife got one of her bills in the mail, opened it up, and was immediately mad. She knew she had paid the bill on time, yet sitting there was a finance charge for a late payment. She immediately got on the phone and called the company. After jumping through the hoops of [...]
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