October 2009

Real Estate: What does the future hold?

October 15, 2009

One of my Realtor friends says that not so long ago, he seriously considered declaring bankruptcy to get clear of the three properties he bought at the height of the bubble. He’s dropped the plan, seeing that things are slowly turning around, but he’s skill skeptical about the future. Meanwhile, some speculators think real estate [...]

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How does your (financial) garden grow?

October 14, 2009

Over at A Gai Shan Life, Revanche has been contemplating the degree to which her investments have recovered from the late, great economic crash. In comparison to the pickle we were in just a few months ago, even “not great” returns look good! Coincidentally, just a few days ago I happened to take a look [...]

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Reprojecting next year’s income

October 13, 2009

Obsessive again, I spent another day and a half rehashing, in a desultory way, next year’s income and outgo. And worrying. Worrying worrying worrying: can I make it? It appeared very much as though I could not. In 2010, projected discretionary and monthly unavoidable expenses, all told, will run about $30,075. Net income from Social [...]

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Teaching without tools

October 12, 2009

So the li’l community college students have handed in their first batch of final, final, FINAL most-brilliant-thing-they-ever wrote essays. A few are surprisingly good. Most are unsurprisingly adequate, and a few evince some real challenges with language. Mercifully, so far none of them is flunking (exactly), and I’ve only got about four or five more [...]

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Love in the time of influenza

October 11, 2009

People are dropping to the left of us and dropping to the right of us. We seem to have a serious flu epidemic going on in our parts. Last night on the Evening Play-Nooz we heard thousands of cases have been diagnosed in Arizona, and a number of people have died. Given that most people [...]

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Update: COBRA, RASL

October 10, 2009

So yesterday I reported on the flap that arose over the COBRA discount, in which one of GDU’s sterling HR representatives told me that staying on the payroll until December 31 would make me ineligible for the discount on COBRA mandated under ARRAS, the federal stimulus plan. This would mean my health insurance premiums would [...]

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