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Category Archives: Economy

Are We Financially Spoiled?

I’ve talked about the how I’m not in favor of the “Occupy” Protesters, and lately I am starting to wonder if we are Financially Spoiled in the United States? Why I think We Are Financially Spoiled: First, let’s start with a poster that I recently saw associated with the Occupy Protests, it was titled, “ShutContinue Reading

Reducing The Maximum 401k Contribution Limit To Help The Economy

Okay, yes this title isn’t a preferred route for the government to take, but there is a good chance a small decrease in 401(k) limits would help both the government and the economy. Currently in 2012, the cap for the 401(k) contributions is set to $17,000.  But what if we reduce the contribution limit downContinue Reading

Why We Should Not Hate Businesses

One thing about the News stations are that they only tell you the bad news that they know you’ll watch, and this makes sense, the new station is a business trying to make money and not giving the public what they want is a sure way to go out of business.  But to me itContinue Reading

Why Companies HAVE To Make Profits

A buddy at work didn’t understand why corporations needed to try to make, what he called  “huge profits“, so I thought I’d share my thoughts on the topic. Have you ever been to a soccer (or basketball or football) game where the opposing team looked like they were standing still, and the game was aContinue Reading

US Sues To Block AT&T Takeover of T-Mobile

Why Does the US Sue to Block the AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile? AT&T is the second largest cellular plan provider (Verizon is number 1).  T-Mobile is the fourth largest provider of cellular plan in the US, and is owned by Deutsche Telekom AG.  The third largest US cellular plan provider is Sprint… Based on theContinue Reading