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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
FDIC To Borrow From US Treasury?
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1 Comment » - Posted in The Fed by RichSlick
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
McDonald’s Still Has $0.99 Double Cheeseburgers
A little over a year ago, I wrote this post questioning The Simple Dollar’s math regarding the benefit of a home made burger vs. McDonald’s $0.99 double cheeseburger. The math was close and depending on what variables you included it was pretty much a wash.
It’s now a year later and inflation has made the cost […]
No Comments » - Posted in Basket of Goods by RichSlick
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Hey, GM & Ford, You Don’t Need $50 Billion, You Need A Clue
I’ve written about abandoning Ford as my auto manufacturer of choice after years of letting me down with recalls and lack of innovation but now Ford & GM are asking for a $50 billion dollar loan from tax payers to keep their crummy companies up and running.
I have a suggestion for Ford & GM, you […]
1 Comment » - Posted in John Galt by RichSlick
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Why Are Shops Dumping American Express?
Having dealt with many retailers for a while, I know American Express has traditionally charged higher fees to merchants for processing transactions but I’ve been recently encountering more and more shops dumping American Express. The biggest chain that I’ve seen doing this is Subway. I’m guessing it’s the independent franchises that are dumping the card […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Credit Cards by RichSlick
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Raked in $3500 in August
August was a fairly good month as I raked in ~$3500 with about 8 trades or as I like to think of it, 8 clicks of the mouse across a couple of electronic accounts. It’s really not that hard to make money once you have some good working capital. There are many ways to rake […]
2 Comments » - Posted in John Galt by RichSlick
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Calling For Capitalist PF Bloggers To Add To My Blog Roll
It seems that my blogroll is dwindling and I haven’t really found any capitalist pf bloggers to add to my site blog roll. I’m getting ready to drop Trisha’s site as it looks like she’s done blogging. Do you know of someone that meets this criteria:
An individual dedicated to earning income and blogging […]
9 Comments » - Posted in MMO by RichSlick
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
The Dave Ramsey End Game
It seems every few months someone will post a comment on this post from a while ago coming to the defense of Dave Ramsey. I guess what I’m really interested in writing about today is to ask what the end game of the Dave Ramey philosophy will lead us to at the end of the […]