From Mike.com

I stumbled across a couple sites late tonight organizing people against the corporate welfare initiative that we know as the sub-prime mortgage bailout. I thought I’d take a couple minutes to mention them, because I do believe their good causes, although, like Ron Paul’s campaign, will really just fall on the deaf ears of […]

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I got my notice of appraised value from the county tax appraisal office this week, and my “appraised” home value went up about 7.7%, while the dollar amount of my taxes went up about 10%.
This is my first house, and having lived here less than a year, this is the first time I’ve seen my […]

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Pedal down, on ramp, trigger pulled, I read “P-O-L-I-C-E”, foot hits brake…
but not fast enough.
My first “emergency” attack on my tight and aggressive budget would come, sure enough, from my own stupidity. Coming back from picking up the girls this weekend, getting on the interstate, I let the Charger get away from me […]

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Liz Pulliam Weston has put up an article over at MSN calling for credit card customers to get behind an bill (HR 5244) revamping the rights and responsibilities of the credit card issuers and putting an end to excessive fees and unfair practices in the credit card industry.
Some components of this “bill of rights” for […]

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Has anyone seen these Money Magnet widgets on peoples blogs?
Am I the only one that thinks this just smells like a pyramid scheme?
A poor pyramid scheme at that, because a real pyramid pays you on multiple levels, and this one just pays the seller and (I assume) the Money Magnet creator?
Why is everyone saying this […]

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A friend of mine turned me on to this today. I hadn’t seen it before, I just finished watching it, and I did learn a thing or two about how we are enslaved in modern society by the big credit issuers.
The documentary is called Maxed Out, and it’s about an hour and half long. […]

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