March 2010

Taxpayer confusion

March 27, 2010

Damn, but I wish Congress and the IRS wouldn’t let corporate lobbyists make hash out of the tax code so the rich folks can get out of paying. If you have several different kinds of income, it is just flicking impossible to understand tax forms and what you’re supposed to do to pay fairly. What [...]

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LOL! You can’t make this stuff up

March 27, 2010

Okay, I know that in some ways this isn’t funny, but… hee hee HEEEEE! Just thinking about it reduces me to incoherence. Especially the part where the reporter says, “The Associated Press could not locate a home telephone number for Wolfe.” Thank heavens! How would you like to have the AP call you for comment [...]

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This just in: VOTE!

March 26, 2010

As I’m darting out the door, FMF sends a notice that Funny’s next round in the March Madness competition is up. Please go here and enter a vote for “Truth”! More later!

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Moments of Fame

March 26, 2010

The Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Amateur Asset Allocator, with a funny fantasy game theme. Amateur kindly includes Funny’s squib on RoP insurance policies. Squawkfox has a nice piece on how to move your bank accounts to a new institution. And I see A Gai Shan Life’s rumination on whether to keep the [...]

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Sure you wanna go on that cruise?

March 25, 2010

The other day while cruising the Web, I stumbled across this bizarre and alarming site, describing some of the things that have happened to people while sailing on cruise ships. It left me thinking I’m glad to stick to metaphorical cruising! As it develops, sovereignties and courts of law apparently have little jurisdiction over what [...]

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How’s the economic stress level in your parts?

March 24, 2010

Here’s a new money tool that’s entertaining or frightening, depending on where you live, and always interesting. The Associated Press has put together an interactive map of the U.S. measuring economic stress nationwide, by county. Mouseover your home county (or anyone else’s) and you see a “stress” index based on unemployment, foreclosure, and bankruptcy figures. [...]

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