Eric, from Freedom or Security, has already responded to my article from yesterday: Federal Minimum Wage Rising – Good or Bad?. That article was actually written in response to a comment he left on an earlier more informative article Federal Minimum Wage Rising This Week. Eric’s comment took the “Devil’s Advocate” approach, and he took [...]
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Earlier this week I wrote about the increase in the Federal Minimum Wage which recently took effect. The minimum wage increase from $5.10 to $5.85, and will increase by $0.70 on July 24 of each of the next two years, capping out at $7.25 in 2009. A fellow personal finance blogger, Eric, from Freedom or [...]
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I was reconciling my financial accounts with Quicken the other day when I came across a charge I did not recognize. Well, I did recognize it, but only because I had seen it a few weeks earlier. But that was only the second time I had seen it, and I still did not know what [...]
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The Federal Minimum Wage increases $0.70 per hour on Tuesday – from $5.15 to $5.85. Here are some facts about the current Federal Minimum Wage: The minimum wage will increase 70-cent on July 24 for each of the next two years, capping in 2009 at $7.25 an hour. That equates to just above $15,000 annually [...]
I was reading No Credit Needed (NCN is one of my favorite personal finance blogs) yesterday and his latest article was a reflection on his last three years of blogging, and a look toward his future. One section in particular grabbed my attention: One of the coolest things that happened while I was getting out [...]
I was listening to the radio last night and I heard about a casino that lost almost $1 million because one of their slot machines had the incorrect software installed and automatically gave 10 credits for every dollar inserted. The slot machine should have only given 1 credit, and this error resulted in an automatic [...]
Did that get your attention? Good. Now you have to read the rest of this article to understand the title! A recent article, How to Earn $1 Million by Not Watching TV (note, this article is no longer available), was posted on Yahoo Finance, and attributed to TheStreet.com. This article states that people can earn [...]
