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Criticism

Confidence is Great, Right? Nope, It’ll Wreck Your Life

We’re all taught to be confident from childhood. You know, those confidence boosters like getting a trophy no matter where you placed, parents telling you that you can do anything in life and so on. On some level, having confidence in yourself and what you can achieve does allow you to think big, stretch your [...]

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Beware: Investing Newsletters Tend to Be Scammy, Lying, Useless Money Pits

Let’s imagine the easiest way to make a bunch of money for providing virtually no actual value, having very little accountability, and having the capability to scale your scam as much as you could ever imagine. Here are a few common “business ventures” that come to mind: a) Virtually any of the top selling affiliate [...]

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Free Market Economics or Racism? Pottery Barn “Dark-Skin” Doll Cheaper Than White

My wife was checking out Christmas stockings today at Pottery Barn to buy them at a discount after the season and couldn’t help but notice the exact same stocking with a “dark-skinned doll” and a “light-skinned doll” at dramatically different prices. Evidently, you can buy $16.99 for the light skin doll but get a whopping [...]

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How the Ratings Agencies Complicit in the Housing Collapse Are Actually Saving the World

This is not a theme you’ll see in the mainstream press, but it’s the truth. Unfortunately, you can’t prove what “might have been” if it doesn’t come to be, but read on and tell me where I’m wrong. The same ratings agencies that are fodder for everyone from Obama to European leaders for their utter [...]

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Income Disparity Is Good. Seriously.

Is income disparity good? I guess it depends who you ask. I like it. I mean, I always knew I wanted to make more than the next guy. That notion of wanting something better for myself and my family has always driven me to push myself to continue to excel, learn more, take risks, work [...]

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I Was Fired for Confronting a Sexual Predator. Why Did Penn State “Leaders” Turn a Blind Eye?

The first (and hopefully only) job I was fired from was when I was 17. It wasn’t because I was a lousy worker, stole merchandise or I called out sick a lot. It was because I confronted a sexual predator on store grounds. My manager and the store owner have to live with their actions, [...]

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6 Shocking Reasons Companies Announce HUGE Layoffs Years in Advance

It seems like every day, even in this “recovery”, there’s a new headline with a large company touting their latest round of layoffs. While the headlines and the numbers announced are widely publicized, I haven’t seen any news articles on WHY companies make these announcements the way they do. Why do companies make these enormous [...]

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43% Increase in Healthcare Premium for Me in 2012. How Bad Is Yours?

If I didn’t have side income from blogging I’d be pretty pissed each year when we get our new benefits options for the next year. I guess it’s downgraded to just being annoyed and not “pissed”. I understand that healthcare costs continue to exceed the rate of inflation. So, inflation’s 3%, healthcare rises 6%. That’s [...]

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When Faith Kills – Life, Death and Your Finances

I watched with surprise the 60 Minutes interview this weekend with the Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson on how Jobs’ “faith” in himself and how special he was allowed him to accomplish incredible things, but also likely accelerated his demise. Some key points of the interview which are outlined in detail in his #1 Best-Selling [...]

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I AM the 53% – Share Your Story

There’s a great site worth checking out. In the same vein as the Occupy Wall Street crowd who claim to represent 99% of Americans, there’s another site dedicated to the JUST 53% of Americans that actually pay federal income taxes. After all, if it weren’t for those 53%, who would pay for the 47% of [...]

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