The Upcoming Economic Summer Season

Well, the summer season is upon us and aside from everyone taking family vacations and what not, driving has hit a new low for Americans. Hopefully, this will uptake the inventories of stored oil and drop the price a bit. One of my old economic professors once told me that if the bottom of a [...]

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When is the right time to open a CD?

Now. Over the past few months as we have traveled through this rough economy, the best way to securely save your money with a somewhat interest rate is to lock your money in for at least 6 months to a year. Why? I don’t trust the Fed interest rate to help us that much and [...]

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Now in Cupertino, CA

So after 2.5 days of driving and over 2300 miles later my friend and I have arrived in Cupertino. Unfortunately I have been feeling under the weather the whole trip, I am really hoping that I will be back to 100% in time for the weekend. 
Day 1: We originally planned to leave at 2:00 pm but there [...]

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Some Vacation Time

I’ll be heading down to California next week. As I mentioned i an earlier post my friend has taken a job at Apple so I’ll be helping him move down. We are driving there, then I’m flying back up. He currently wants to finish the 25 hour drive in 2 days, but I’m a bit skeptical. 
I [...]

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Saving money with ebay: Part III

This is the third installment in a series about saving money with ebay. You can view Part I here and Part II here.
Alright so as you all know I started buying some clothes on ebay. Currently I’ve received 3 of 4 packages, I’m going to pick up the last one later today. And I have to say [...]

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Why You Should Avoid Those “Green” Funds

With “Eco-Friendly” and “Green” being such hot buzz words, it’s easy to get excited about the environmentally responsible funds that are available. Investment firms are taking this opportunity to sell these funds like there’s no tomorrow. These funds are generally made up of companies that attempt to remain environmentally responsible while conducting their business. [...]

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Screw Oil…Bring on the Hydrogen Highway!

Thank you Arnold!
The Governor of California and heads of state in Canada have teamed up to finally bring the Hydrogen Highway to life. This huge plan which is to be completed by 2010 in time for the Olympics. This highway is supposed to run from Vancouver all the way to Baja, California and have somewhere [...]

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Blog Revenue Lessons

I know it has been a long time since anything was posted about the blogs revenue. So I’ll give it to you plane and simple, because of our absence of focus on the blog it has seen a fairly large drop in revenue. In fact the adsense revenue has dropped to almost $0.00, but we [...]

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The 21st Century Drop Out

There is a lot of stigma attached to the term “drop out” and allow like many labels it does apply some of the time, there are many times where its application is very inaccurate. Once a upon a time I used to think of a “drop out” as somebody who couldn’t handle school and just [...]

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Picking a Mutual Fund… Alternative Energy?

So today, I finally decided that I plan on investing about $50 a month in a mutual fund. I am looking for an alternative energy/renewable fuels fund with companies like First Solar and BP. I need the fund to be mid growth and medium risk. I’m somewhat of a conservative when it comes to stock [...]

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