Month: September 2009

What can you do about taxes?

The first step toward successful investing in uncertain times is to preserve as much of your income as humanly possible. We’re talking about taxes. Love ‘em, hate ‘em, or even...

4 ways to thoroughly screw up your finances.

4 ways to thoroughly screw up your finances.

Now, more than ever, it’s critical that you not make – err, how shall we put this delicately – STUPID financial decisions. Before you can even conceive of a plan to invest in a...

What, me worry?

What, me worry?

You might recognize the headline above as the caption MAD Magazine uses along with their ever-present mascot, the faintly simian-looking Alfred E. Neuman. It’s good advice....

New oilfields are good news, right?

New oilfields are good news, right?

You might have missed recent news reports that giant new oilfields have been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, Iran, Brazil, and Uganda. Excellent! Now the price of gas at the...

Dangerous geniuses.

Dangerous geniuses.

It’s only a matter of time before the great breakthrough happens – cheap energy for everyone. It’ll be the end of high gas prices and usher in a new age where the rest of the...

Come on! Die already.

Come on! Die already.

Oh, come now. We all knew it was going on. It can’t help but happen when the government puts itself in charge of health care. A recent article in the UK Telegraph yanked the...

Winter driving fun ahead.

Winter driving fun ahead.

Most of us, at some point in our lives, get to experience the joy of steering a car through a winter wonderland. Even if you’re a lifetime resident of the Snow Belt, you still go...

Doh! That is so easy!

Is your house in need of a thousand million minor repairs? Ha! Does Dracula like to drink blood? Yes. Sometimes in our headlong sprint towards depression that we have to make a...

Back to the Stone Age.

Back to the Stone Age.

Remember the gallows humor joked about the United States being nuked back to the Stone Age? Turns out that it wouldn’t even take a direct strike and accompanying fallout to send...