FTW = “For The Win” for you intarweb nooblets.
Anyway- Over the course of this week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show have been ripping into CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, and the other financial networks for being a major part of our current financial problems rather than solutions. Last night, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money [...]

A good friend of mine is working on a project revolving around sustainability and “green” living. I was interviewed at “Show me your green” and while the quotes aren’t exact, they’re close and it did make me think about the entire green/tree-hugger/envirogeek thing. What’s it mean to you to be “green?” Do [...]

We decided to use the loot Uncle Sam will be returning to us to invigorate the economy a little bit… We went to a locally-owned chain of A/V stores and drooped some cash on a new TV, receiver, and 5.1 surround sound setup. WOOOO! The TV is great, the receiver is one [...]

Disclaimer: This post will contain a lot of generalizations. They will be generally accurate but there are exceptions to everything. Also- I’m looking to my dad on this one because he knows stuff about this from a first-hand point of view that I do not.
Labor unions need to go the way of the [...]

Rate cut after rate cut from the Fed hasn’t had an impact on consumer spending… and I have a theory as to why.
Perhaps people are starting to realize that an economy built on debt, funded by a currency with no material standard, and dictated over by a privately held banking cartel isn’t that stable. [...]

By now you’ve heard all about the Big Three (an increasing misnomer) returning to Washington to beg the government for a bailout. You’ve probably heard them say that if they go under, the economy will fail. You may have heard about their last visit to Washington in which each of the execs flew [...]