Having a solid credit score has been important for quite a while now, but it’s actually becoming more important these days as lending tightens up. There’s a reason that the Fair Isaac Corporation — the organization that calculates the credit score that most major lenders rely on — ha...

Via the Treasury Department’s Debt to the Penny Calculator, here’s what the National Debt was on January 19, 2001: And here’s what it was on January 20, 2009: That’s an increase of  $ 5,005,369,081,097.44, or 87.39% in eight years. In other words, George W. Bush and the Repu...

Remember that 60 Minutes piece on bank failures I linked to earlier this week and how optimistic the Chairwoman of the FDIC sounded ? “We’ve been around for 75 years and nobody’s ever lost a penny of insured deposits,” FDIC head Sheila Bair told Pelley. “…which is why...

Rolfe Winkler explains why spending yet more money we don’t have isn’t going to help, and will probably end up hurting us very badly: If I may offer just one reason this will all fail: rising interest rates. Interest rates need only revert to their historical median in order to hammer as...

The runaway inconsistencies of the Labour government’s handling of the economic crisis in Britain are truly terrifying. Last week, they began printing money to buy back debt they themselves have issued, a process I described as like a snake eating its own tail. Technically, this is considered ...

Megan McArdle explains why she thinks that people do-to some degree-have a moral obligation to repay their debts (lengthy excerpt warning): Four weeks ago, I bought a grill on my credit card. It was not the best grill Home Depot had--indeed, because I am cheap, and also have never longed to rotisser...

Jim Rogers was on Larry Kudlow’s show last week talking about the economy and he was as blunt as ever: Similar Posts: Peter Schiff: Get Out Of The Dollar Scott Boras Has a Bad Week Larry “Bud” Melman, RIP Okay, This Country Is Officially Screwed Larry King Lands Paris Hilton...

Erica, who writes Philadelphia Weekly's Style blog, went to Target this past Saturday to purchase some new tank tops. She and her boyfriend filled their cart with a lot of other stuff too—"Ready to stimulate the economy?" she joked to him on their way to the register—and they agreed to s...

Aus dem brillianten »Watchmen«. Aus dem Soundtrack: Watchmen (2009) Hörprobe: iTunes Store Website: mychemicalromance.com Schlagwörter: Alternative, Closing Credits, Cover, Punk, Rock, Soundtrack...

When I was near my financial low point, I was literally paying hundreds a month in finance charges on my credit cards. That money was an enormous burden at the time, since I didn’t have any savings built up and I was also dealing with the “startup” expenses of having a new baby in ...