This article is part 2 of the series Credit Cards 101. Your credit card will either work for you or against you. While some of it depends on the credit card itself, a lot of it depends on you, starting with the way you choose your credit card. Once you’re ready for a new credit […]
No matter how much you love it, how reliable it’s been for you, or how much you spend on monthly payments, the brutal truth is: your car is not an investment. A lot of people think that spending thousands of dollars on a car or truck qualifies it as an investment, but that’s not accurate. […]
The 800-billion-dollar bill passed. Don’t forget how this all started. Hint: The government did it. Now the government wants to “fix” their problems with more “free” money. But the money isn’t free. No, sir. We’re going to pay dearly. Barrel of Pork. This costs more than the War in Afghanistan and Iraq combined… and the […]
No one wants to be a slave. We understand this to be true with regards to explicit forms of slavery. If a man tells you that he owns you and that he will shoot you if you do not perform backbreaking work for him on his plantation, you would naturally revolt. Why don’t we revolt […]
Before it became the worst credit crisis since the Great Depression, the credit crisis used to be an arcane topic discussed only in financial publications. Now, it’s on every computer, television screen, and front page of every newspaper in the world. It may have you worried about what you can do to get through it […]
This is part three of the series How to Get Out of Debt. Advice regarding getting out of debt is everywhere, and the signal-to-noise ratio leaves many dumbfounded. Where to start? You want to get out of debt, but the often-contradictory advice given leads many to paralysis and lack of motivation. There are five abiding […]