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IF YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY ON GAS DRIVE MORE SLOWLY

You can save a lot on gas if you drive at the speed limit.  If you drive at 60 miles an hour you use 9% less gas than if you cruise along at 70 miles an hour.  And if you go 50 miles an hour you can save up to 15%.  So, driving 50 miles [...]

WHAT ODD THING DO YOU COLLECT?

With the economy still shaky and investors’ faith in the stock market unsettled, many people have invested their money in alternatives like gold and other precious metals.  But there are those few of us who collect odd things that we think will be worth more down the road, things destined to be sold on Ebay.  [...]

401k ACCOUNTS STATISTICS

The next time you check the balance of you 401k account, feel a little bit better knowing that you’re not alone.  The average balance of a U.S. 401k account in 1998 was $62,000.  Today the average balance is $45,000.  46% of all U.S. 401k accounts are worth less than $10,000.

THIS NEW YEAR’S EVE WILL BE ASTRONOMICALLY EXTRAORDINARY!

This New Year’s Eve is not only is the last day of the decade, but it’s also going to include some really rare lunar occurrences, occurrences that all seldom happen on New Year’s Eve.  There will be a full moon, a blue moon, and a lunar eclipse this New Year’s Eve 2009.
When there are [...]

HOW MUCH “FUN MONEY” DO YOU REALLY HAVE?

It is the end of the month.  Your bills are paid.  Food is on the table.  If you are like most households in the United States, you have money left over to do something fun just for the heck of it.  Discretionary income, sometimes known as “fun money”, is what is left over in your [...]

HOW MUCH WOULD THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS COST TODAY?

If you wanted to give your true love all of the gifts detailed in the classic Christmas carol The 12 Days of Christmas this year you’d have to come up with $21,080.10. Here is a cost breakdown for each gift:
1 Partridge in a pear tree $219.99
2 Turtle doves $55 (Successful breeding cycles have caused [...]

NEW RULES FOR GETTING A JOB

With unemployment at an all-time high, competition for good new jobs has never been fiercer.  So how can you get an edge in the hiring process?  A new survey of 500 of the members of the Society for Human Resource Management published in December’s Cosmopolitan magazine offers up 10 Get-Hired Secrets no career counselor will [...]

THE MOST VALUABLE BRANDS IN THE WORLD

Every year, towards the end of the year, the brand value of companies around the world are assessed.  This year the top five most valuable brands were also the top five in the same order of rank in 2008.  Those brands are 1. Coca-Cola, 2. IBM, 3. Microsoft, 4. General Electric and 5. Nokia.
This year’s [...]

OFFBEAT ECONOMIC DOWNTURN FACTS

Apparently the weak economy had a big impact on marriage.  The last year the U.S. divorce rate was as high as it was in 2008 was 1970.
Even the rich were not immune from the effects of the economic downturn.  Poor Hugh Hefner had to sell his California home for 36% less than the asking price.  [...]

LARGE SUMS OF MONEY PUSH PEOPLE PAST MORAL LIMITS

It’s not unusual for corporations to make headlines for unsavory practices.  GE joined the party this summer when it was caught cooking the books to exaggerate earnings.  According to a new study published in the November/December issue of Psychology Today magazine, the mere presence of large sums of money pushes people past their moral limits, [...]