Posted in Good Reads on Sep 15th, 2009
Haven’t done one of these in a while, but I wanted to share some good stuff I’ve been reading from around the web. In today’s roundup we’ve got a scam, a horrible mistake, and a history lesson. How the Government Dealt with Recessions: A nifty chart from the New York Times with some interesting audio [...]
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Posted in Jobs on Jul 15th, 2009
I was over at Ramit’s site today and read Charlie Hoehn’s new 30-page e-book on recession-proofing your job. Great, great stuff. I won’t spoil it for everyone, but he’s got some great thoughts on how to go about protecting yourself during these tough times. Not only that, it’s really a primer on how to get [...]
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Posted in Finance on Jul 2nd, 2009
On Monday I posted an interview I did with “Chris,” a married guy in his late thirties with three young girls that lives in a suburb of Detroit. Today I’m talking to someone closer to my own age and my own place in life. Jim is a lawyer in his mid thirties that just had [...]
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Posted in Finance on Jun 29th, 2009
The recession has his everyone in this country in one way or another. We all know someone that has lost his/her job or is going through tough times financially because of the current credit crisis. But Detroit has been hit hard like no other place in the country. The automotive industry, which has been identified [...]
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