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Back when I was a kid, I remember going to Catechism and learning about the seven deadly sins. Maybe that’s why this national sin survey, conducted by a Kansas State University team of geographers, caught my attention last week. The provocative survey, actually an academic study, measured and created a “sin index” for 3000 US counties with respect to pride, envy, lust, gluttony, wrath, greed, and sloth. Fascinating stuff. Did you know your Continue reading The 7 Deadly Sins of Personal Finance Welcome to edition seven of The Best of the Best in Money and Personal Finance, where every featured post is an Editor’s Pick! The top selections for this edition were based upon entries that came closest to guessing the amount of money that avowed anti-capitalist Michael Moore has seen his movies rake in since 1989. The correct answer: $174,803,281 Now that, Alanis Morissette, is something that’s truly ironic. Hey, here’s another fun Continue reading The Best of the Best in Money and Personal Finance #7 This is a review of the 2004 movie The Machinist starring Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh Plot Summary: Trevor Reznik is a factory lathe worker who can barely tell whether he exists anymore. He hasn’t slept for a year and he is so thin he is practically disappearing. After a horrific accident at his shop, and finding a series of cryptic notes in his apartment, he begins to believe he’s
Continue reading Drive-By Movie Review: The Machinist No, I’m not a car mechanic – I need help filling my car’s gas tank! This is a guest post from my father-in-law, Tony, who has over 20 years of experience specializing in the maintenance of tractor trailers and cars as a mechanic and shop owner/operator. (He’s also helped me with lots of home improvement projects too — like my hot water heater replacement adventure.) Thanks, Dad, for filling in for
Continue reading Notes from a Car Mechanic: 6 Simple Money-Saving Tips You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the sign post up ahead, your next stop…The Personal Finance Twilight Zone. So I was reading this story yesterday about a man who quit his laboratory job for a French oil company in 2006 so he could begin preparing for what he Continue reading Killer Asteroid? Personal Finance Strategies For the End Times It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe... Blogs I’ve Been Following This Week Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week… My Life ROI – I always enjoy visiting My Life ROI. This week, MLR had a post highlighting some positive US economic Continue reading Black Coffee: My Favorite Blogs, Money News & Opinions #14 This is a review of the 2007 movie Breach, starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillipe, Laura Linney and Denis Haysbert. Plot Synopsis: Based on the true story, FBI upstart Eric O’Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Me: Breach is based on the very real story of Robert Hanssen, a despicable man who was responsible for Continue reading Drive-By Movie Review: Breach By now, most everybody has heard or seen the ubiquitous ads by LifeLock where its founder and chief executive officer, Todd Davis, intimates the impenetrable fortress-like quality of his identity theft protection service by brazenly giving out his social security number (457-55-5462). In one TV advertisement he even says, “If anything happens for any reason while you’re a client of LifeLock, we will cover all losses and all expenses up to Continue reading Is LifeLock and Its $1 Million Guarantee A Sham? It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe... Blogs I’ve Been Following This Week Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week… Bret Frohlich – What would you do if you had more than enough money in the bank to do whatever you wanted? Continue reading Black Coffee: My Favorite Blogs, Money News & Opinions #13 |
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Black Coffee: My Favorite Blogs, Money News & Opinions #15
It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe...
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Blogs I’ve Been Following This Week
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…
Man vs Debt – Some disgruntled reader wrote me a nasty e-mail last Wednesday telling me how much
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