Posted April 25, 2009 - 17:07 by Philip Brewer
Personal Finance, Health and Beauty
While health authorities worry about the human cost of pandemics, other policy-makers have tended to focus on the economic costs. Economic impact takes many forms--drops in production as workers stay home, drops in commerce as shoppers avoid crowded places, drops in tourism as travelers avoid affected areas. Does the current economic crisis make us more vulnerable than usual, if the swine flu outbreak in Mexico and a few US cities goes pandemic?
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Posted April 23, 2009 - 11:56 by Andrea Dickson
Personal Finance
Ah, spring. A time for new beginnings, new growth, time spent outside with friends and family, and a several month supply of Zyrtec. Oh, and of course, some great blog posts by personal finance bloggers.
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Posted April 23, 2009 - 03:14 by Fred Lee
Lifestyle
As the economy falters, so does the patience of some parents, leading them to act out their frustrations in the worst possible way. Here are some tips on how to avoid this loss of control and keep things in perspective.
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Posted March 24, 2009 - 08:15 by Philip Brewer
Personal Finance
Stagflation, the bane of the 1970s, is pretty much the worst situation for ordinary folks. With the economy depressed, jobs are scarce for workers and profits are scarce for business owners. With entrenched inflation, everyone's savings are constantly eroding. The result is that nowhere is safe for your money: not cash, not your business, not the market. With the latest moves by the Fed, I fear we're facing a repeat--only it'll be worse this time: stag-hyperinflation.
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Posted January 18, 2009 - 18:55 by Jabulani Leffall
Personal Finance
We must understand fundamentally while some of our exercises in saving go for naught and why when things turn around, we forget our lessons. Unfortunately in America just eat one bite from the tree of knowledge, just one trip out of town, just one spending spree, just one feel of fine fabric, one morsel of Kobe steak can actually program your hard drive in a way that’s hard to undo.
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Posted January 5, 2009 - 16:11 by Jabulani Leffall
Personal Finance, Budgeting
Forget about the fact that it's a recession. What you do now determines where you will be when the graph trends up again. What if you stopped dropping duckets like you dropped weight from dispensing with carbs? What if you misered up, stored and did without for say just one week or one two-week interval every month? What do you think of that 'Fast Money?'
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Posted December 19, 2008 - 07:36 by Philip Brewer
Lifestyle
For some time now, we've had good success drawing on the decades from the 1950s through the 1990s for our retro. Some bolder types have even made some use of the 1890s and 1920s--periods of wealth and excess--to inspire fashion, architecture, lifestyles, and the arts. The new economic realities, though, I think will convince us to draw on some new periods for our retro: the 1930s and 1940s.
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Posted December 5, 2008 - 11:31 by Andrea Dickson
Food and Drink
As times get tougher, I have began to wonder how many people will turn to hunting and fishing as a means to provide food for their families. I don't think I have the stamina to track and shoot a deer, and the Seattle area really isn't that good for hunting - hipsters don't taste very good, anyway.
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Posted October 14, 2008 - 03:26 by Fred Lee
Frugal Living
Some studies have found that indicators of a healthy population actually go up when the economy goes south.
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Posted October 8, 2008 - 07:14 by Philip Brewer
Personal Finance
For a decade, starting in the mid-1990s, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates too low and expanded the money supply too quickly. Their theory was that, as long as consumer prices were stable, they must not be creating too much money. We now know that they were wrong.
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