Ok, I admit, I MIGHT have been wrong. It’s happened before (so rarely it’s hard to recognize at times) but this time I think I might be on the wrong side of the debate.
With the Subprime bubble decimating all within the blast range, I’ve never had a lot of sympathy for people that have gotten [...]

Times are tough, really tough. Over 100,000 layoffs just last week alone. Gross Domestic Production down over 3% (the worst in over 25 years) and the price of houses continuing to go down. The government is trying everything it can to stop the stalling of the economy and get things going in a positive direction, [...]

With roughly half of the government’s TARP (Toxic Asset Relief Program) funds already disbursed, why is it that we’re still having so many problems with the subprime and ‘packaged’ loans that triggered this downslide in the economy? Wasn’t the idea to get rid of these debts on the bank’s balance sheets and allow them to [...]

Welcome to the January 13, 2009 edition of Festival of Frugality hosted here at Credit Withdrawal. It’s still cold here in the mid-west, but there’s a sprinkling of good recipes, good ideas, and great reading to help you take some of the chill off.
Favorite Posts
Chris presents The Joy of Owning Nothing posted at financial reflections, [...]

My Mom was a wonderful woman. She was strong-willed, intelligent, and had a great business mind. Early in her life she owned an antique shop, buying and selling antique dolls and making thousands of dollars from each sale.
Yet, when she died, she was almost completely broke.
This is My Life
A bit of history first. I came [...]