While reading a post on GetRichSlowly.org, I came across an article called: “You are your own worst enemy“. We all have friends like the “Gillian” that is described in the article. Often time (at least in my case), we are too polite to say “What is wrong with you! You can’t afford that!!! Well, I finally… Continue reading Advice for Spendthrift Friends in Debt
Category: Problems
Pre-Vacation Nightmare!
Let’s travel back in time to last Sunday 11/01/2009, it’s 4:39 am in the morning and I’m about to get my son up to leave for our vacation flight. Being half asleep, I bumped my son’s hamster cage by accident, but his hamster doesn’t move… Hmmm, I bumped it harder this time ( intentionally), but again the… Continue reading Pre-Vacation Nightmare!
Is the Government Destroying Our Banking System?
I ask this because the government keeps making it harder for the banks to recover. First, the government provided the bail out money from TARP. But then they said that the banks need to keep certain capital levels in reserve. Then, they complain that banks aren’t lending out money…? Now, I read today that Barney Frank… Continue reading Is the Government Destroying Our Banking System?
Walking Away From Debt
Rich defaulting on their mortgages I read an interesting article on msn.com today (Click Here for the msn article) about the rich walking away from their mortgages. Some are even double dipping, they stop paying on their mortgage and if they have a line of credit, sometimes they pull all of that money out too. The msn article… Continue reading Walking Away From Debt