Is Private School Worth It? It Depends…

June 2, 2010

Where I grew up, everyone pretty much went to the township public school – at least everyone I knew. Occasionally, a new kid would enter our class in 6th grade or 9th grade after having spent the prior years at a private school.  Based on my anecdotal recollection, there didn’t seem to be a correlation […]

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VA Loans Pending Legislation

June 1, 2010

Amendments to a new bill which is currently making its way through the United States Senate may have unintended consequences for military families who currently own a home or are considering purchasing their first house. Called the Financial Services bill, the piece of legislation attempts to provide additional protection for home mortgage borrowers and close […]

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Hillary Clinton Needs a Reality Check on Taxes…Seriously

May 29, 2010

While I’m used to politicians saying and doing stupid things of epic proportion, I think this one takes the cake.  Apparently, Hillary thinks that there’s a causal relationship with having the highest taxes around and strong economic growth. Take a minute to watch this…and then see just how stupid these assertions are: “The Rich are […]

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Austerity Measures from the EU – Country by Country

May 27, 2010

On May 27, the Spanish Parliament passed an $18 Billion austerity package by a single vote.  This just demonstrates how unwilling politicians and citizens in the Euro zone are to tighten their belts and atone for years of burgeoning debt (general strikes are planned for June 8th to protest these “draconian” measures).  When such measures […]

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New Teachers and Graduates out of Work to Fund Obscene Pensions

May 23, 2010

There were two articles in the New York Times that had some related themes if you connect the dots.  Primarily, the themes focused around the total lack of employment prospects for teachers entering the workforce this year and likely for years to come (Teachers Facing Weakest Market in Years) and the second article involved the […]

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Strategic Defaults Are Going Mainstream. Shameless.

May 17, 2010

The Term Strategic Default is “the new black” in the world of homeowners who bought in to speculative real estate markets with the bare minimum down payments during the real estate boom.  These are homeowners that are well-paid, employed and completely capable of paying their mortgages, yet they’re walking away from their homes and their […]

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