Obama announced he intends to freeze the salaries of federal employees for the next two years. Of course this excludes the bloated military but we won’t go there. The move is a derivative of the Deficit Panel’s recommendation to freeze salaries for 3 years. Critics have complained many federal employees are overpaid anyway. Representatives from [...]

Southpark famously said “dey took R jebs!” which is bumpkin talk for “they took our jobs”. The cartoon town was mad because people were coming from the future into the present to take their jobs. The evolution of labor has always been a hot issue. Whether it was the Chinese building the Transcontinental Railroad or [...]

CNN story about research on dogs at Duke University

Today is Black Friday in the US. It is the biggest shopping day in the country, and many retailers will sell more over the next month than they have all year. Shoppers are enticed to come into stores to buy things by special deals that you can’t get any other time of the year. After [...]

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The following is a guest post from Tom, a personal finance writer especially interested in promoting a culture of saving using online savings accounts for Money Choices. While interest rates might only seem to come into play when you’re looking to put your cash into a savings account or certificate of deposit or when you’re [...]

Back in the spring the world held its breath as a Greek debt crisis threatened to topple the first domino that could send everyone back into a recession. Since then we’ve seen acronyms for the other countries in Europe in trouble. The most well known is PIIGS, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain. Portugal and [...]

I remember my first encounter with the Better Business Bureau (BBB), my college roommate and I complained about the management company that held our lease. They tried to take our entire security deposit on unfair grounds, and then took longer than required by law to mail us the deposit back. Turns out there were numerous [...]