January 2009

Health Insurance: Is your employer paying its part?

January 21, 2009

One of M’hijito’s good friends, a young newlywed who had just purchased a house, was sideswiped by a fifth-wheel while he was on his motorcycle. Because he was wearing a helmet, the young man survived. However, he’s lost a kidney and his spleen, and he broke three vertebrae. He’s still in the hospital, a very [...]

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Layoff Plans: Use savings or start Social Security?

January 20, 2009

The other day I realized that in theory I have enough in savings, should the legislature’s proposed destruction of the Great Desert University and the resulting layoff occur, to get by for about a year if I use the money I’ve saved to pay off the Renovation Loan to live on instead of paying the [...]

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A new day dawns

January 20, 2009

We have a new President. Thank God! I am not easily moved to tears by public events, but when this superb man stepped forward to take our country’s reins with tens of thousands of people cheering him on, my eyes were smarting. What a phenomenal historic moment. Never did I expect to live long enough [...]

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Integrity, Confidence, and Trust: A financial manager’s view of the economy and the future

January 20, 2009

This is a guest post by Stephen Taddie, managing partner of Stellar Capital Management, LLC, located in Phoenix, Arizona. Stellar, which manages my vast fortune, has contrived to keep my shirt and my IRA more or less intact as the economy has crumbled around our ears. The essay, which provides some insight into what capital [...]

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The perqs of pinching pennies

January 18, 2009

Spent some time this morning updating the Excel and Quicken books and realized things didn’t look nearly as dark as one might expect, given the current brouhaha over the economy. On the other hand, we do recognize that any time now, the layoff ax, sharpened to a fine edge by a legislature in full Mme. [...]

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Win 6 months of the W. St. J.

January 17, 2009

This is neat: Pecuniarities is running the site’s first blog contest, and the prize is nifty: a six-month subscription to the Wall Street Journal. This is worth, in pecuniary terms, $129…and a lot more in connect-to-the-world terms. Check it out!

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