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Poor Poor Americans…

White House reports it borrows 37 cents of every dollar it spends. (Note, I first heard the number 41 cents and after a few searches this is the smallest number I could find.) The term OfficiallyScrewed doesn’t do this one justice.  Nor would a write up.

An Billion of Prevention Is Worth Dozens Of Billions Of Cure

Cost of the G8/G20 summits?  $1.2 Billion Outcome of G8/G20 summits?  7 of the 8 G8 nations are cutting their deficit by 50% and cutting their debt to GDP ratio.  i.e. they are cutting spending by billions upon billions over the next few years.  It’s as simple as that. My message to those who criticize [...]

Goretesque: A Definition

Goretesque: adj. To portend to be an environmentalist and then buy your 4th mansion. ex. “Muffy and Bif are so Goretesque. They just bought an $8.875M home in Montecito as a getaway from their getaway in the French riviera.” adv.Goretesquely. ex. “He Goretesquely railed against rising oil prices from the front seat of his H3 [...]

Found Money – In A Recession, Every Little Bit Helps

A friend introduced me to this website last week. It is the Bank of Canada’s site for money that people may have left in an old bank account and forgotten. After 10 years of inactivity, banks transfer the funds, along with the account information to the Bank of Canada. Just by plugging in a few [...]

  
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