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Use it or Lose it
My company, like most in the U.S., jettisoned the “rollover” vacation days a while ago. Too bad! Wouldn’t it be awesome? Save up those vacation days for 5 or 10 years, and then take a six-month trek through Europe or South America. Nope. Today it’s use it or lose it, and studies suggest most Americans…
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The Great Divide in Compensation
“A shortcut to riches is to subtract from one’s desires.” — Plutarch It’s that time of year when the media reports on Wall Street bonuses. Unless you live in NYC, most people are unaware what these bonuses do for the New York economy. “Is business good for everyone when Goldman Sachs has a great year?…
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Is Wal-Mart Good or Bad for You?
As I was reading Rich’s post today “Are You Being Screwed?”, it prompted me to share some thoughts on the book I am currently reading – “The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s Transforming the American Economy” by Charles Fishman. While I wouldn’t suggest listening to the audio book…
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Secret Lives of Breadwinner Wives
This was the title of a recent article by MP Dunleavy, a writer over at MSN. Her article was about heterosexual couples in which the wife earns more than the husband. But in gay couples, without a ‘wife’ or ‘husband’ (usually), one person is always going to earn more than the other. It might be…
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WWYD: More for the Money
Tell me, “What would you do?” Everyone likes to get a little something extra for little or no extra charge, since these opportunities don’t come around very often, we seem to create these opportunities on our own. Just because you can ‘get a little something extra’ to save money doesn’t mean it’s a good idea…
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Money as a Second Language
“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” — Rollo May Does anyone remember The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock? Back in the late eighties, it was a New York Times bestseller and it was a book that posed intriguing questions to help people explore their fundamental values and beliefs…
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Are you being screwed?
The cover of the current Rolling Stone magazine (Dec 14 issue) invites readers to discover “How the Super-Rich are Screwing America.” Inside, we find the less-provocatively titled article,”The Great Wealth Transfer” by Paul Krugman, a leading economist and columnist for The New York Times. In it, Krugman explains how the wages of most Americans have…
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Trim the Financial Fat this Holiday Season
“Downsize holiday spending, not your holiday joy.” — Mari Adam Being stretched for time and money multiplies the stress level that many feel during the holiday season. Allison offered several tips a few weeks back. Here are some others in anticipation of the upcoming weeks. Dani Arthur at Bankrate.com provides this insight, “The holiday season…
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Ten Money Questions for Kara Swisher
I rarely speak of my day job while posting at Queercents, but as some of you know I sell software. I also survived the dot-com boom and bust and although I didn’t profit financially, this experience put me in the midst of something historic. Kara Swisher was and continues to be the Wall Street Journal…
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Deal in Cash
I was reading a bit about budgeting while juggling my own monthly financial review and paying bills when the wild suggestion of deal only in cash popped up on my radar. At first I laughed a bit at the thought of going cash-only in 2006 but then it dawned on me that dealing in cash…
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