This weekend I threw $1,100 down the drain. That is to say, I paid my rent. Pop-finance pundits have long used the drain cliché to describe how renters like me waste money, while homeowners with mortgages “pay themselves” and “build equity.” In April 2007 I argued something different: Renting Mak
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03/09/2009
Memo - To all Employees As the CFO of this business that employs 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama is our new President and that our taxes and Gov't fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, I figure that our clients will have to see an
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03/04/2009
BATTLE OF THE CANTONS! From Canton, GA, to Canton, KS to Canton, TX to Canton, SD, to "The Good Canton" Canton, Ohio... Hoover vacuum jokes Boring McKinley Memorial Tombstone jokes... Oy Vey! You can tell deep down in places he may not talk about, that Stephen Colbert loves Canton, Ohio and why
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03/03/2009
THINKING YOUR REAL ESTATE TAXES ARE SKY HIGH? How many politicians have forced their hands into your cookie jar squeezing their sweaty fingers trying to grasp the change in a frenzy. From the Auditor's website, the following information describes all the jousting for your money. "The Fiscal O
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03/02/2009