Like you last weekend I sat glued to my TV watching the scenes unfold across Japan. I saw the water rush across the countryside, sweeping away homes, cars, businesses and people. The devastation seems astronomical, and unless you lived through [...]
March 16, 2011
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The Upside Of Recessions Historically, recessions result in increased personal savings rates. We tend to cut back on our expenditures because we are unsure what will happen to our finances in the short term. This has happened time and again. [...]
October 20, 2010
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The latest labor department statistics say that 6.3 million Americans have been unemployed for six months or longer, which is the largest number of unemployed workers since the government began keeping track in 1948. That number is more than double [...]
February 24, 2010
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