If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed right now, before you forget, to get the latest posts. Thanks for visiting! UK mental health charity Mind says that people with mental health problems are almost three times more likely to be in debt than those without them. New ...[Read More]

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So Bret and I woke up early to go to a local restaurant that advertises free WiFi with coffee and donuts. Apparently, nobody ever shows up for it since they didn’t have coffee or donuts. That’s a bad sign. I went out to eat and had a dirty fork, I asked for another, they brought me a ...[Read More]

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If I am guilty of anything, it would be in having too many ideas and possibly being so self-righteous on some matters I fail to bend or give humble passage to allow for the populist view to pass without notice. I have dully noted the feedback among some readers, not all posted for politeness, ...[Read More]

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If there ever was anyone that better understood and was sympathetic to the underlying issues and subconscious issues that drive good people into bad debt, it’s me. I’ve been in the financial crapper myself and then I built my personal finance professional life on helping people ...[Read More]

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U.S. Citizens Fenced Out of America I just saw a piece on CNN that showed how the border fence near Brownsville, Texas is going to be built following a levee rather than the actual border. Doing this will place a large section of U.S. land and a gold course on the Mexico side of the fence. ...[Read More]

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Frankly I’m stunned where all the bankrupts are in the UK. With fuel prices rapidly increasing, the cost of daily life getting more expensive and credit choked, how in the world are people in the UK managing to make ends meet? And you thought things were only tight in the US hum? Well the ...[Read More]

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Progress, progress, progress, always forward, so say many. The drive to succeed and make money is the ultimate pursuit for the driven masses. The ability to earn and spend is an unsatisfied quest that become a goal rather than a meaningful exercise. Since my last post I have found myself ...[Read More]

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You and I don’t need anyone to tell us it is getting way more expensive to fill our gas tanks. We get that message every time we withdraw the nozzle from the tank and place it back on the pump. Hello $73.18. BOHICA! (Bend Over Here It Comes Again) But what you ...[Read More]

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So Google has released Goog-411 and I would not bother telling you about yet another new Google service but this one is awesome. I’ve tried it and already programmed it in my cell phone. I have not problem at all if Google, or any other company wants to add services like this ...[Read More]

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I’ve seen more articles recently about people selling gold for gas cash. Old rings, old fillings and other jewelry have been sold to raise cash to help make ends meet. At Craigslist the number of for-sale listings has soared 70 percent since last July. In March, the number of listings more ...[Read More]

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Comments by President Bush today have me left scratching my head. While he was talking about the economic anxiety people in America are feeling, I find some of the comments about farmers, puzzling. If I’m not mistaken, the major oil companies have deflected pressure from their record ...[Read More]

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Jeanette sent me a question online for me to answer. So can you. I am a Virtual Assistant in Australia and was considering the ‘pay me what you think I’m worth‘ approach for my business. Would you recommend it? I know you said it didn’t pay in the UK which is a bit ...[Read More]

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I thought I was being very clever in having a current backup copy of my aviation research data, 500 GB worth. This included a year or so of document and 16 mm film restoration and research work. In my recent move back across the Atlantic from the UK my primary computer developed a few quirks ...[Read More]

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So a quick search about MAXJet will uncover the other articles that I’ve written about MAXJet. The irony is that the airline that offered a similar service, like MAXJet, has now gone belly-up as well. Eos flew 48 seat 757s between JFK in New York and Stanstead, near London, England. The ...[Read More]

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I just got finished helping a very nice woman deal with a horrible financial situation. It seems that last year she was approached by the husband of her cousin with an “Amazing Investment Offer”. He said he was a registered investment advisor and that if she invested her money with ...[Read More]

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