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The recent economic recession has a lot of people worried, about their jobs, their businesses, their homes and their bills. When your income is dropping or in jeopardy and you still have a mountain of bills to pay, things can...

Everybody exhale, especially those making big bucks. All bets are off! President-elect Barack Obama will not increase your income taxes in 2009 and possibly not even in 2010. As the previous Democratic president made abundantly...

WordPress by itself is very simple — what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we just passed...

There are rumors floating around that credit card companies are in serious trouble. This is because as money from loans are all but dried up, many card holders are starting to run up their balances in times of economic...

Most people think that starting their own business has to be an expensive endeavor. While it is true that many successful entrepreneurs self-fund their startups by racking up massive debt on their credit cards, it definitely...

A hedge fund is a largely unregulated private investment fund that uses any available investing strategies to increase returns. It is common for the fund managers to have leveraged long and short positions in both domestic and...

Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan. Then there is Bank of America’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch, a deal skating dangerously close to the definition of failure after last week’s announcement that BofA...

Last year, the stupendous Daniel James co-hosted a talk with me on Lifetime Value metrics for subscription and virtual goods-based items. You can see the video/outline for the talk, Daniel’s commentary, and a mindmap of...

1. Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis (7,903 links). Although Mish (aka Mike Shedlock) is not an economist by training, he adroitly gets into the thick of economic data. Mish uses observations made by those in major...