What looked like a good deal in buying our home a year ago seems to be more of a mixed blessing these days.

The newspaper industry is a business in decline, some would say dying but there is a future for them yet.

More people are tossed into bankruptcy because of medical bills more than other factor.

With gas prices plummeting at the gas pump, will lower gas prices be the spark that gets the economy moving again?

… and I am glad. I think it must have fallen nearly a dollar in the past month and has been plentiful for several weeks since the hurricane in the Gulf knocked out supplies for three weeks.
We can get gas now for $2.59/gallon of regular grade. At the summer peak, I was paying $3.89/gallon. [...]

One of the things many people hope for today is that when they stop working, their retirement will be a comfortable one at least in terms of paying everyday bills. The foreign travel or golfing everyday will be the icing on the cake so to speak. Many people of my parent’s generation had the benefit [...]

Tomorrow night is the vice-presidential debates between Joe Biden (D) and Sarah Palin (R). Hard to say what will happen from the debate or the aftermath thereof. So much pre-debate spin and then there is the debate format itself which will not be anywhere near as freewheeling as the the first debate between John McCain [...]

A rough week it has been in the financial market and by extension, the economy as a whole. It does not say much for the ‘fundamentals of the economy’ that it requires the government to take on hundreds of billions of dollars to stabilise the one part of the economy that more than anything else [...]