Archive for January, 2008
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008I thought this article in the New York Times was interesting. It’s about two homeless guys who find books on the streets of Manhattan and sell them to the Strand Bookstore, a huge used bookstore on Broadway and 12th Street. Each guy finds several boxes worth of books overnight, and then bring them […]
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Earning Extra Income
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008A few days ago I wrote a post called Pay Off Debt, or Build Up Savings (sounds like the title of a task on the Amazing Race). Single Mom in Debt from The Quest to Become Debt Free responded to my comment asking if I had considered part time work or consulting. I […]
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Frugal Tips for Getting Out of New York City for the Weekend
Monday, January 28th, 2008I’m feeling much better today and, after a weekend of forced internet deprivation (my connection in Hartford went down), I’m ready to do some posting.
If you live in New York, getting out of the city for a weekend can be an expensive proposition. Once you add in a car rental, tolls & gas, and […]
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Under the Weather
Friday, January 25th, 2008Something has been going around in my office since Thanksgiving. Just about everyone has come down with a bad cold over the past couple months except me. Until a couple days ago. Forgive my sporadic blogging, but I’ve been feeling crappy. It started in my sinuses, passed down through my throat […]
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Mauled by the Bears
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Everywhere I look now on the web I see more about how bad the stock market and housing market are doing. It’s fair to say that bearish sentiment is extremely high.
There’s an old saying among market players that when a picture of a bear appears on the cover of Newsweek or Time […]
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The Decline Continues
Monday, January 21st, 2008This poor guy logged in to his trading account this morning and found that he had lost all of his money. Warning, lots of swearing.
Somehow I think I may be sounding like him when I log in to see my 401k balance tomorrow. Whereas he’s in his 20’s and has a lot of […]
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Pay Off Debt, or Build Up Savings?
Monday, January 21st, 2008I’ve been thinking over the the long weekend about how I want to reconfigure my financial plan in light of the recession that seems to be upon us. Markets around the world are plummeting today: China and Brazil are down 6%, and India by 7.8%. My poor, battered 401k plan is 20% allocated to […]
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Please Don’t Come, Just Send Your Money to Us
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Since I’ve been on a media rant today, here’s another article that has made me seethe. By the way, do note that this article appears in is considered to be a conservative London newspaper, which owned by Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News.
Fortunately, Michael Chertoff, baldie boss of the Department of Homeland Securitisation, has […]
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A Politician Lies, Foreigners Go on a Shopping Spree, and $556 Billion in Debt is Thrown Into Doubt
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Rhea over at The Boomer Chronicles wrote a post about a confrontation between a reporter and presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Romney stated during a question and answer session with reporters that “I don’t have lobbyists running my campaign, I don’t have lobbyists that are tied to my campaign.”
Well, a reporter named Glen Johnson […]
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Winter in New York
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Brrr, it’s cold outside! 24 degrees, which is unusually low for noontime in Brooklyn. The sun is pouring through my window now, but even so it is chilly here where I write, and my hands are cold. I’m actually thinking of baking something to have an excuse to put the oven on. […]
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