Three Orthodox rabbis Hershel Billet, Kalman Topp, Aaron Glatt)  sent out this letter: Dear Friends As you well know, we are in the midst of a financial crisis unprecedented during our lifetimes. As a community we must take stock of the circumstances and react to the new realities in a responsi...

A friend calls. "I saw a bunch of Orthodox Jews walking today. I said to my brother, ‘Clean cups, dirty hearts." Luke: "What does that mean?" Friend: "It means that their cups are clean because of Talmudic rule 1378 but they’ll rape you in business. They are not ...

Many of you are familiar with TED, the annual conference where great thinkers, visionaries, experts, and creators get up and expound on ideas in a 15 (or is it 18?) minute timespan, the results of which end up on video for people around the world to digest. The big problem with TED is that the barri...

In an article titled "Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Spending", M.P. Dunleavey writes for the New York Times about her struggles to get out of $30,000 in credit card debt. Ditching debt requires dealing with the emotional underbelly of owing money, and coming to terms with a culture that has seri...

Credit Card minimum payments are supposed to help keep the accumulation of interest on credit card debt from getting out of control — but a new study reported in the Economist suggests that minimum payments do more harm than good. Mr Stewart was studying a phenomenon known as “anchoringâ€�. ...

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Looks like another another miscue in the Carnival Land.  Sorry the carnival didn’t go out as planned this morning at the host site, so here’s an emergency edition of the Money Hacks Carnival #39.  Before I begin, just want to say thank you to everyone for your participation. Photo by M...

OK, I need help understanding the current state of the economy and how the proposed bailout will help make things better.  Once again I freely admit to being an engineer and a theologian, not a politician nor an economist…with that in mind, I have been mulling over the following thoughts and ...

Saying “lower taxes” while accruing trillions of dollars in debt is not actually lower taxes. It is taxes plus interest . Which is about the most expensive way there is to pay taxes. Look around at the state of the U.S. economy at this moment and you (should) learn a vital lesson: overex...

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