The middle class are almost as dead as a dodo. They’ve been dying for some time. They’re now only seen on some urban safari run by the American Dream marketing company. If you’re lucky, you might catch a glimpse of…
Money doesn’t go as far as it used to. You might feel faint when you buy a brocolli. It never used to cost so much! Or your daily ritual of going through the drive-thru at Chick-fil-A takes you closer to…
Ah, to be young – but there is definitely a downside. Being a newbie in this economy is not only scary, it’s also pretty hard to learn the best ways to do right with your money. Everywhere you look, you…
Clean The Slate Cleaning up your finances can be a big project, but small steps will get the job done. You’ve got big plans to move your finances to the next level, but where do you start? Consider this: you…
You should do both–save and eliminate your debt. Doing both is very important to your financial success. Doing both ensures your success in staying out of debt. I know all the arguments . . . there are those on the side…
For many of us, dealing with financial matters is emotionally stressful. Bills in our mail, notices in our email inboxes, voicemail messages – all of these have the potential to add up to one major headache. Equally difficult is the…
Are you feeling the pain yet? Many of the “authorities” deny that we are in a recession. Yet. However, we all know that things are getting a little tighter. We are working a little harder. Our pockets are a little…
You might think that you’re alone in your particular financial predicament, but you’re not. Perhaps you have only a few thousand dollars in savings, or maybe you’ve got a giant goose egg to fall back on, but wherever you are…
Part One and Part Two explain the beginnings of currency and loans as we know it. But that truly is just the beginning. When last we left our bankers, they were just starting to loan out their depositors’ gold without…
In the first part of this series, I introduced the beginnings of our economic system as we know it. Once upon a time, money held value in its own right, and banks simply kept it safe. Then something changed. People…