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The Secrets Of A Frugal Millionaire: Some Tips On Saving $$$$
Today’s guest post comes from Jeff Lehman, author of The Frugal Millionaires.
Saving thousands while still spending.
Millionaires make up just 2 percent of the population. They get a bad rap during recessions for being wasteful with their money and are frequently used as examples of excess. It’s the millionaires that you don’t see that you can [...]
Digitize All of Your Old Media: Back Up A Lifetime Of Memories
Technology has progressed so quickly that anyone over the age of 30 has probably amassed a collection of data generated in both analog and multiple generations of digital technology. (I’m looking at you, Commodore cassette tape drive.) And though you may never need a particular bit of data, being able to find an eight-year-old résumé [...]
The Gay Marriage (Polling) Conundrum
On the heels of a decision by California’s Supreme Court to uphold a ban on gay marriage in the Golden State comes polling data from USA Today/Gallup that contradicts the conventional wisdom that a majority of the American public is moving closer to acceptance of same-sex unions.
Asked whether “marriages between same-sex couples” should or shouldn’t [...]
Overlooked Story Of The Day: Obama’s Legacy Loan Program On The Rocks
A government program designed to rid banks of bad loans, part of a broader effort once viewed as central to tackling the financial crisis, is stalling and may soon be put on hold, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Legacy Loans Program, being crafted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., is part of the [...]
Iraq: Living With The Tragedy Of War – One Families’ Story
I first met Abu Wissam at the foot of his son’s shallow grave. Never will he be able to erase the last image he has of his son’s body.
“He was cut to pieces,” he said. “His hands and feet were chopped off. And he was decapitated.”
For a long time, Iraqis would say that it was [...]
New York Times News Analysis: Sotomayor’s Rulings Are Exhaustive But Often Narrow
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial opinions are marked by diligence, depth and unflashy competence. If they are not always a pleasure to read, they are usually models of modern judicial craftsmanship, which prizes careful attention to the facts in the record and a methodical application of layers of legal principles.
Judge Sotomayor, whom President Obama announced Tuesday [...]
Obama Hails Solar Energy as He Trumpets Stimulus
President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed solar energy as a cost saver for a major Air Force base, one stop on a Western trip devoted to raising political money and promoting his economic policies.
Mr. Obama’s aides had mocked reporters for making a fuss over his first 100 days in office, but the president was eager [...]
Sotomayor, A Trailblazer And A Dreamer
She was “a child with dreams,” as she once said, the little girl who learned at 8 that she had diabetes, who lost her father when she was 9, who devoured Nancy Drew books and spent Saturday nights playing bingo, marking the cards with chickpeas, in the squat red brick housing projects of the East [...]
Geithner Unveils Stimulus Business Tax Credits
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced Wednesday that organizations working in 33 states would receive $1.5 billion in business tax credits fueled with federal stimulus money and aimed at creating and saving jobs in areas hit hard by the economic downturn.
The New Markets Tax Credit program was established in 2000 and is credited with creating an [...]
North Korea: Tossing Out 1953 Truce, Ready To Attack South Korea
North Korea threatened military action Wednesday after South Korea joined a U.S.-led effort to limit the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction, the official Korean Central News Agency said.
South Korea said Monday that it was joining the 6-year-old Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) because of “the grave threat WMD and missile proliferation is posing to global [...]
