German Electric Cars? Perhaps.
After watching plenty of auto makers make more energy efficient cars, German auto makers have finally decided to start rolling out electric cars. VW is said to start in 2010, and BMW said just last...
View ArticleI wish the electricity was more reliable.
In the last week our electricity has gone out 3 times. These aren’t just short 5 or 10 minute outages…these are hour plus outages. We live in a town of less than 20,000 people. It’s also a college town...
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Remember Napster…yea, neither does anyone else.
Napster was once a great peer to peer file sharing program where music was free and plentiful. After being attacked by the RIAA and Lars (see: Metallica) it shut down. Then in 2002 Chris Gorog the CEO...
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An air conditioned idea to lower your electric bill in the summer.
In the summer lots of people are pinched by the cost of electricity. In the hot and humid Mississippi summers I have grown accustomed to, the electricity bill is well over what I would like for it to...
View ArticleHome values in select markets. Buy your house when moving to college?
I have watched several housing markets decline so fast my head spins, but I have also watched our housing market incline at a dizzying rate also. A small 2 bedroom house in a college neighborhood has...
View ArticleNYC looking to go green.
After watching the posted video, I think that it is a good idea for New York City to become a more green city. For years, the largest city in the United States has been leading the rest of the country...
View ArticleGustav has it’s eye on the Gulf Coast…
Right now, as of 9:44 PM Central time on Thursday night Gustav is still a tropical storm. However, it is predicted to become a Category 3 hurricane by the time it makes landfall sometime late Monday or...
View ArticleWhen the FAA makes a boo-boo, fliers are the ones who pay.
Wednesday the FAA said a computer glitch caused flight delays across the country. Many flights at the largest airports in the country were delayed by an hour and half or more. Why? The main computer...
View ArticleSEC bans short selling on 799 Financial stocks
One day after the UK Financial Services Authority pulled a similar stunt, the SEC temporarily banned the short selling of almost 800 financial stocks. According to the ban, on October 3rd short selling...
View ArticleEconomy and Halloween, an indulgence in a bad economy
There’s a chill in the air, the days are getting shorter, Halloween is right around the corner… But in our economy how will people be celebrating the spooky holiday? A Wall Street Journal video poses...
View ArticleOur national debt has outgrown the National Debt Clock in New York.
In 1989 a small clock was placed in New York City. It’s purpose was simple: To count up the national debt. This week the national debt grew to over $10 trillion. That’s $10,000,000,000,000. The clock...
View ArticleHouse sells for $1.75 on Ebay
Saginaw, Michigan has its newest homeowner. 30 year old Joanne Smith from Chicago outbid 7 others to get the winning bid of a whopping $1.75 on eBay. However she will be responsible for back taxes and...
View ArticleVolvo Cars to cut more than 3,000 jobs.
Volvo Cars will be slashing 13% of its workforce because of lack in global demand for their safe, but relatively fuel inefficient cars. 2,000 of the jobs would be blue collar jobs in Sweden. The...
View ArticleMotley Fool says Kiss These Retailers Goodbye
If you were or are a fan of Circuit City, they may not be around for too much longer. That’s bad news for the company and its employees, but if you’re looking for deals on electronics, it could be a...
View ArticleCircuit City may close over 100 stores.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Circuit City may close 150 stores and lay off thousands. The closings would also involve liquidating $350 million in inventory so it can pay off some of its...
View ArticleCircuit City liquidation being handled by same company as CompUSA.
By now it is no surprise that 155 of Circuit City’s stores are closing and there are markdowns all over the store. But, as reported today by The Consumerist , the stores are being liquidated by the...
View ArticleCircuit City files for bankruptcy
The Virginia based company Circuit City has petitioned for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Richmond today. Even after liquidating 155 of its stores and cutting around 17% of all of its employees, Circuit City...
View ArticleGift card gotchas…
Just like I was blogging about yesterday, Forbes.com released an article about how companies could have sold customers $100 million in worthless gift cards. Remember, there are no obligations for...
View ArticleLinens and Things, as well as others, charging MORE for liquidation items?
A while back, I wrote about how Circuit City’s liquidator had been liquidating items for CompUSA at a higher price than before bankruptcy. Well, Good Morning America came out this morning finding...
View ArticleBest Buy has a serious 3Q profit drop.
Best Buy has posted a 77 percent 3Q profit loss this year and it fears consumer spending will get worse. As a precautionary measure, Best Buy has begun to offer employee buyouts for corporate employees...
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