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Could he be any more clueless?

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Here’s a new and different idea: Companies offering debt-related benefits, as opposed to the more traditional emphasis placed on retirement and other things. Because yes, it is distracting (remarkable that link is from 2002, when the good times still rolled and only a few of us were stressed out about the glaringly obvious housing [...]

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It’s an interesting theory I could be inclined to believe. More troublesome is my impression when I learned in college about FASB and how it all works was that it’s an arm of the SEC in all but name, sometimes grabbing some wiggle room, but buying that room by largely doing whatever the government [...]

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Credit Card Ghosts, including somr interesting links to factoids and statistics about credi cards.

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I’ve always had trouble battling imposter syndrome, which ties into my trouble charging a lot and accepting too little income, as I discussed with the recruiter yesterday. Not that it helps for what’s a good income to change so dramatically over time. What was a great income in 1978 is live with your [...]

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Apart from cost and fussiness, depending on model, I actually like the compact florescents, and what they did to the electric bill. At least, until the electric usage we were getting billed for nearly doubled for no apparent reason. One of the things I don’t like is that you can’t or couldn’t, put [...]

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On an amusingly related not to my consulting fees post the other day, here’s a post on how to sell overpriced services. The dressing part feels tongue in cheek, even though it’s tried and true advice I first saw decades ago, and so not me. The part about being right up front is [...]

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Sounding sensible? Apparently it can happen.

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This is good post on determining consulting fees, even if it does date back to January. I famously have trouble with pricing, which may be tied up somewhat with self-esteem and excessive desire to please others on my part, and ironically it’s probably low pricing that’s left me with a lack of business and [...]

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Richard Grasso is holding up well in court so far.

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This is exactly my view of it.

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The obsession with home ownership is indeed strange and unhealthy, and was parlayed into maximizing the housing bubble I’ve been on about for years.

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This is just remarkable. Trouble is, you can vote it into law, but the legislature and governor are above the law and can twist and warp accordingly.

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Weekend Pundit has regularly discussed tin whiskers, though due to the Blogmosis failure those posts are not available. I previously mention the problem in this post. So I was interested to see a “fact or fiction?” post and discussion of tin whiskers at Slashdot.

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I think I linked this elsewhere previously, but it’s still in my “to be linked” bookmarks and is interesting. Apparently there’s end of the world insurance that factors into investing, defaults, and expectations.

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This is an interesting and lengthy look at finance, investment, economics, bubbles, and intergenerational issues, launching from the massive writedown of German subprime investments in the US.

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So gas stations are having trouble staying open, duh, when credit card fees eat more per gallon than you earn. Given that, the return of cash discounts couldn’t be far behind.

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With my family situation, type of work, and commuting costs, working from home has been not only much on my mind, but a conscious thing we’re trying to pursue. Sun recently pursued telework in a big way after determining the benefits.

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I’ve long figured anything there happens to be is gravy, and been of the opinion there’s no obligation for people to do anything but spend it on themselves, although an inheritance does sort of haphazardly make up for the crazy upside-down situation we have now, where a genration or two or three support the older [...]

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