March 2009

The Worst Financial Mistake You Didn’t Make

March 18, 2009

Recently I was asked to describe the three worst financial mistakes I ever made. Well, that was easy… But later, it occurred to me that a more interesting question might have been “what was the worst financial mistake you didn’t make.” Have you ever been tempted to do some damnfool thing and then later realized [...]

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Moments of Fame

March 17, 2009

Green Panda Treehouse hosts this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, where Funny’s rumination on the “Slow Money” idea appears. I enjoyed Pimp Your Finances’s rant about the widespread allegation that responsible savers are trashing the economy. Living Almost Large questions the long-term effect on the economy of excessive and almost universal student loans. And there’s [...]

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Frugality, savings, and the causes of doom

March 17, 2009

Okay, I know that writing about the same thing other bloggers are posting is a form of mob journalism, much to be avoided. But what the heck… Pimp Your Finances is riding one of my favorite hobbyhorses, the argument that saving and frugality are harming the economy. We cheapskates are to be blamed for the [...]

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Single-handedly rescuing the economy

March 16, 2009

Yesterday M’hijito and I went out and spent enough to bring the entire global economy back to life. Well…at least to revive the value of Lowe’s stock. The Investment House that I so recently was fretting about has needed decent window coverings since we bought it. The previous owner, who rented the place out, had [...]

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What’s that light at the end of the tunnel?

March 15, 2009

Earlier this week I spoke with Audra, the loan origination officer at the credit union who helped us refinance the so-called Investment {snark!} House at a very favorable rate. Called her because I’m beginning to feel a little frantic about the drop in value in that neighborhood, and because M’Hijito, who presently occupies the place [...]

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More on unemployment insurance ripoffs

March 14, 2009

Remember that I mentioned the Unemployment Insurance representative told us, during the 90-minute chivaree in which all us furloughed Great Desert University employees were to sign up for the Shared Work program, that we should be careful of the various “fees and penalties” Chase Bank was likely to charge against the required debit card we [...]

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