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Just saw this apropos post from economist Dean Baker. [...= excerpts]

...The economist Barbara Bergmann died last week... Barbara was an extraordinary person. She got her PhD in economics in the...

Several "real" financial advisors have told me that even supposedly reputable financial planners, a la Ameriprise agents, get about $25,000 commission for each annuity they sell. So you can imagine...

I like Rogar's, and IL's comment:

I know many believers in "The Secret" whose financial situation keeps getting worse as they "think positively" about following their well-visualized bliss,...

Way to kill a thread, Packy. Death by vitriol.

Blackdog Lin was really smart with doing her math, including probability calculations. (Didn't anyone else have to study that in high school or college?)

Cathy, I don't know your personal...

Jeez, does anyone ever look at the actual data that is being cherry-picked for consumer publications, let alone actually think about what that data means, before knee-jerking? This was one graph from...

Catherine has it right. This original article is another example of poor economic journalism. The FED has been pumping trillions of dollars into huge corporations, and they're the ones who are...

Well, then, my dear bae, you are no longer a hoarder because you are about to spend your hundreds of thousands of dollars on our immensely over-inflated education system. (And according to the...

In addition to a well-stocked house, I have a stash away from the house in case of collapse/housefire/etc -- in metal garbage cans, and it works fairly well, cycling through expiring contents on a...

I have to laugh about the appealing-to-demographic comment. Wonder what demographic Cadillac is appealing to: http://youtu.be/qGJSI48gkFc
and here is Ford's response: http://youtu.be/jAN61QK0aUI....

This from Investment News (emphasis mine): "SigFig's premium service will make changes for its users automatically, investing in low-fee exchange-traded funds. Those investment decisions will be...

I would think that a business that both gives advice -- and then claims to be fee-only to manage the investments based on that advice -- would be inherently rife with conflicts of interest. This...

SimpleSarah, I think you mean orach. Wow - I was just searching and found this amazing colored orach: http://www.rareseeds.com/red-orach/. I've never had it, but have noticed it in catalogs for the...

Okay, I'm a prepper, a doomer, etc. and I will contribute two things:
1) HELL NO to a special forum just to attract preppers -- there are plenty of us here already. Joe Dominguez foresaw the...

One in four adults - that's 65 million Americans -- have an arrest or conviction that shows up in a routine criminal background check. It is a result of the criminalization of a whole class of...

Gingerella, your instincts are right on to "not like" Capital One. I did a little research on them in 2011:
They were the inventor of the “balance transfer” scam to keep people in ever-larger...

I would suspect that Yalies are more likely than most to end up feeling unfulfilled -- there's a heck of a lot of expectations about "making something of yourself" to justify that tuition price --...

I try to keep my finances as complex as humanly possible. !Splat! Used Quickbooks because it allowed me to track multiple lines of business across categories (as a sole proprietor, I could use the...

Co-chairs of the metro-Seattle United Way campaign blogged about trying to feed their family of six on food stamp allotments:...

Didn't read the article - who has time when I can barely keep up with so much content here?! But I have noticed an interesting thing about my life lately... I don't seem to have any "and then..."s...

I just picked back up the knitting needles this weekend! And realized the pattern I got for a shawl a year or so ago is way over my head - no wonder I abandoned it instantly. But it felt good to...

rotflmao!:laff:

As a matter of fact, I do. And from what little I saw of the DNC (commercial-free clips carefully cherry-picked via YouTube), the dems finally realized they LOVE my subculture! :cool:

When the end came to An Inconvenient Truth, I was PISSED! (Can I use that word here?) All that devastating info, and we were just supposed to go home and change our lightbulbs? Absolutely ridiculous...

Carcassone - that's the winner! THANKS everyone, and especially Rosemary. :cool: