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There is something distinctively American about a good old-fashioned road trip. Buy a map, chuck a few clothes into a backpack, fill the car up with gasoline and hit the open road, roaming around on a solo mission or with a group of friends for weeks on end, traveling from city to city and state [...]
There have been a couple of articles on this blog about debt consolidation, but none have addressed the main question, which is if debt consolidation is a good deal or not. On the surface it seems like a good thing, but it isn’t necessarily a good thing at all; let’s take a look at a [...]
By now everyone has heard a little bit about the advertised possible Medicare plan of Representative Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin. Controversial? You bet. Thinking outside the box? Definitely. Good idea; not even close. After the Democrats were able to pass the health care bill last year, the Republicans spent an entire year beating it [...]
I’ll be the first to admit gas prices are awful in America right now. And they’re not getting lower anytime soon. But for how often people complain about rising gas costs, few seem to do anything proactive to lower them. You don’t have to go out and buy a hybrid; there are a great number [...]
I’m not someone who has a lot of credit cards, thank goodness. I’m also not someone who always gets a store’s rewards cards or discount cards. I do have some, though, and I have to say that, for the most part, they’re fairly worthless. The only card I have that’s of any real benefit to [...]