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Black Friday Sales at Sears

Looks like some more got leaked: Televisions GPX 7″ Under-the-Cabinet LCD Television / Radio – $99.99 Haier 20″ Color Television – $79.99 Hitachi 51″ CRT Projection Television – $849.99 Magnavox 20″ Flat Panel LCD Televisio – $349.99 Magnavox 42″ Widescreen LCD HDTV with ATSC Tuner – $1359.99 Panasonic 26″ LCD TV with ATSC Tuner – […]

25 sound financial rules

1. For return on investment, the best home renovation is to upgrade an old bathroom. Kitchens come in second. 2. It’s worth refinancing your mortgage when you can cut your interest rate by at least one point. 3. Spend no more than 2 1/2 times your income on a home. For a down payment, it’s […]

The Dow Jones Industrials Pass 12,000

The Dow Jones industrial average swept past 12,000 for the first time Wednesday, extending its march into record territory as investors signaled their growing optimism about corporate earnings and the economy. Link Wow, I remember the big deal they made when it passed the 10,000 mark a few years ago. Some analysts predict a Dow […]

All cents now worth more than denomination

Zinc passed the $1.80 mark today, that means the current “penny” has a melt value of $0.0101867. All the coins in your penny jar are worth more than their denomination (except for steel cents made during WW2). Link Technorati Tags: economy, penny, cents, money, worth, inflation

2 thing in life you can count on; becomes 3

While growing up I had quite a few teachers/adults tell me that there are 2 things in life you can count on: Death Taxes I’d like to add a third that I’ve seen every election season since then: Gas prices will drop about a month before elections and stay low until about 2 weeks afterwards. […]

Reduce Winter Heating Costs

My goal this winter is to reduce my heating costs by 35% without going the easy way of just turning the thermostat down 10 degrees permanently. Here are my plans so far: move my office from upstairs to downstairs in the room directly below our bedroom – I figure this will warm the one of […]

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Major Oil Field Shut Down

Watch the pump prices climb… ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a sudden blow to the nation’s oil supply, half the production on Alaska’s North Slope was being shut down Sunday after BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. discovered severe corrosion in a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line. BP officials said they didn’t know how long the Prudhoe Bay […]