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2010-09-03 16:02

The Other Side Of The A.I.G. Story

I always thought it was a good idea to hear both sides of a story before casting judgment on a situation. However, when it came to the recent AIG bonus news it was hard to step back and see both sides of the story.  

This morning an AIG employee’s resignation letter was published in the [...]

Layoffs… The Video Game

You know it’s bad out there when video game developers start spending their time creating games about layoffs as opposed to stealing cars and shooting zombies.

Game developer tiltfactor has created a game where the object is to group similar employees together in order to lay them off and save the company money.

You can play Layoff [...]

Advice For Young Investors

Here’s a pretty good article from Business Week that’s geared towards Gen Y Investors (if there are any of them left)…

The article covers a plethora of personal finance topics including emergency funds, insurance and home ownership.

The Importance of Dividends

In the past I’ve posted a couple of times about the importance of dividends.  Here’s an interesting article that illustrates their importance with a great chart.  The chart shows total stock returns by decade and then breaks down the returns between capital gains and dividends.  The data is clear… ignore dividends at your own risk.

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Some Signs of Economic Life

Here’s a pretty good article that has a list of reasons why the worst of this recession may be behind us. I’ll admit that some of them are a stretch, but others like the back to back monthly increases in the LEI do provide me with a little hope.  

Believe it or not, what [...]

The Advantages of E-Filing Your Taxes

I’ve spent the past couple days working on my taxes.  This is the first time I’ve prepared my own return, and I have to say it went better than expected.  I used TurboTax and it really made the whole process quite simple.  I especially loved the feature that let me download my investment [...]

New Rangel Rule Bill Would Eliminate IRS Interest and Penalties

I found this new bill that was introduced by Congressman John Carter of Texas the other day.  I found it amusing considering my recent post on Tim Geithner and him not paying his taxes.  Below are the details of the new bill and here’s a link to the Congressman’s webpage.  I’d love to actually see [...]