Criticism

US Loses Triple A Credit Rating – It’s About Time

August 5, 2011

S&P, one of the big three credit rating agencies, just dropped America’s AAA Credit Rating, a first in history.  I wonder if democrats and the talking heads on the cable news networks will now start referring to S&P employees as terrorists. Because after all, anyone who critiques America’s wildly reckless spending habits is a terrorist […]

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College Degrees That Leave You With DEBT FOR LIFE

July 4, 2011

A few weeks ago, I published an article that pissed off a lot of people.  Well, Communications major really.  It was titled, “A Question for All You Communications Majors“.  In retrospect, the article I wrote wasn’t really the message I intended to convey.  What started off as a post on the ramifications of taking on […]

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And They’re Scared of Deflation?

June 26, 2011

I couldn’t help but be skeptical when the Fed justified continued quantitative easing and low interest rates by citing potential deflationary pressures in the economy.  On one hand, yes, we do have high unemployment, so it’s tough to assume high inflation is imminent due specifically to strong wage growth, but when saying we have deflation […]

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Painful Pool Cost Overruns – Part II

June 23, 2011

A few weeks ago, I confessed my mortal sin to the blogosphere that as a Personal Finance writer, I’m putting in the dreaded swimming pool.  Swimming pools are lambasted for their lack of resale value and annual costs.  In our case, we have no intention of moving, our children are young enough to use it […]

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THE PROOF: Little Ladies and Big Dudes Make More Money

June 19, 2011

I’ve stated before that looks matter in the workplace (even though they shouldn’t) and here’s the study to prove it.  This controversial paper hit the web last week and essentially the following conclusions were reached: Women that are 25 pounds below average make $15K Per Year More Men that are 25 Pounds below average actually […]

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Can You Answer These 5 Basic Financial Questions? 90% of Americans Can’t

June 16, 2011

Stemming from last week’s post (Disturbing Study: Americans Are HORRIBLE With Money) on the abysmal study results highlighting America’s lack of financial literacy, here are the 5 questions they used to measure people.  Less than 10% of respondents got all of them right.  Are able to get all 5?  Come on, avid readers of Darwin’s […]

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