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Posted in Finance, Motivation on Jun 22nd, 2010
Wall Street is a classic movie. I decided to watch it again this week because I’m mildly interested in the sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. The original movie was about Gordon Gekko, a powerful Wall Street mogul with an insatiable thirst for money. I expected the movie to really resonate with me because of [...]
Posted in Finance on May 27th, 2010
This is a guest post by Greg McFarlane, an advertising copywriter who lives in Las Vegas and Lahaina— a testament to the power of entrepreneurship. When is it OK not to pay a bill? (If you’re the Greek central bank, “Whenever it suits you.”) Your humble poster automates whatever finances he can, setting and then [...]
Posted in Finance on May 24th, 2010
The first time I wrote about Bed Bad & Beyond and their return policy, I was really curious about how a company could be so liberal in taking things back from customers and still make a profit. After all, aren’t you giving too much of your money away by doing it? I am no longer [...]
Posted in Credit cards, Finance on May 4th, 2010
Your credit score says a lot about you: how responsible you are, how fiscally fit you are, and how intelligent you are as a human being. OK maybe that last one is a stretch, but I might be right—I do have a very high credit score. If you thought a bad credit score could “only” [...]
