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Cash found in Ohio house's walls becomes nightmare - Yahoo! News

Their living sections usually have features about designer doghouses or tableware from Fortunoff.. I thought this was telling. Three for three!

posted this in a thread elsewhere but I thought it was worth a top-level shout out.. PublicMarkup.org A great idea.. you can navigate to and comment on each section.

Press Gaggle Via Conference Call with Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto on the Economy via Open Left:: There Is No Crisis--Summary This Fratto 'gaggle' is worth a tiny bit of Fisking: "a clean bill" means no strings attached. If transparency and oversight were so important, why is that not...

ugh. I just had a brain fart and put up a new thread with a title with some errors. I know I can edit the post but not the title. However, for regular reply posts there's the option to delete the post entirely. I'd have done this to correct the error and re-post the New Thread, but that...

Buffett Buying $5 Billion Stake In Goldman Sachs

The title says it all. Every once in a while, when I've edited a comment, the "Save" button reads "Vote Now". Obviously a v. minor glitch and does not affect functionality, but I thought I would report it anyway if it hasn't been noticed already. Ciao! :)

White House Dispatches Team to Push Economic Bill - Roll Call Hey! There is only one chance to do this right (or less wrong).. so why would you need more than a couple days to review it? Just sign the check already!

Bailout Satire

I love languages, and don't mind other people being pedants or being a pedant myself at times. Harley hates the exchange of "exasperate" for "exacerbate". Recently I've seen the classic "Marshall Law", and this new one: "X will be the deathnail of Z". I thought that was quite inventive! What...

I've had a 20G iPod for 5 years (going-away gift from bus. partners). It never attracted my interest all that much.. I put a couple of CDs on it, but don't have a desire to listen to music when I am out and about, so it languished. Then talking with my sister about how she likes to listen to...

came up in the now-closed Palin thread, but I thought it was worth a discussion, not least because I'd already written the response.. ;) I hope we can stay in money territory. I posted this link, expressing disdain: Bush Has a Good Economic Record - WSJ.com ERD50 asked: ERD50 (and anyone...

Just out of curiosity.. since there was a 'forum-wide' election poll there. Is that a statistic that the moderators have access to, and can reveal?

found by way of: naked capitalism I don't think anyone who is honest with themselves has completely avoided having any of these reactions.. :)

Never was into golf nor knew anyone who was.. but new golf-centered developments are hurting.. Calculated Risk: We're All Not Golfers Now FRUGAL TIP (from the comments): Not to get totally down on golf.. just as a friendly advisory warning, though.. them pesticides can be lethal, not just to...

I Googled around but couldn't come up with anything that would help me ascertain the purpose behind a small thin folded metal strip that sits in a little slot inside the metal handle of a two-stage waiter's-type folding corkscrew I bought. The brand is Fackelmann but their web site doesn't show...

http://www.nplusonemag.com/interview-hedge-fund-manager http://www.nplusonemag.com/financial-meltdown People have made fun of my ideas about debt and the financial system. These interviews are worth reading for a variety of reasons, but I would like to highlight phrases from both articles...

[sorry, title should not read "downgrade" explicitly.. I can't change it now but let's say 'extreme devaluation'] as of now: psychics thread: 837 views extraterrestrials thread: 302 views AAA CDO write-off thread: 202 views Not looking to win a popularity contest.. but curious that...

brewer will say that this is all in my head: NAB in dire US warning | theage.com.au Bad debt bombshell from National Australia Bank | Herald Sun This is Australia's largest bank.

some good comments: Are We a Nation of Financial Illiterates? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

trying to think about the nature/nurture issue of why some people have more or less capacity to save, raised in several recent threads. I'm taking as a given that people here have already adopted, or at least are flirting with, the Frugal path. But some histories I know are checkered!! ;) So...

On the "stupid debtor" thread, some people started talking about financial literacy and Citric Acid brought up FICO as a litmus test. I had come across a couple of interesting threads in the past week or so of surfing: Elizabeth Warren on the Credit Card Industry : NPR CreditBloggers: FICO's...

What I Wish Id Done Differently - Caring for Elderly Parents – The New Old Age blog – NYTimes.com

Spinoff from a post by samclem on the "Depression" thread, talking about energy efficiency (consumption/GDP) and how much room Americans have to cut back. I've been realizing that most traditional foods here don't require a lot of energy for pre-domestic preparation and processing. They are...

FT.com / Home UK / UK - UBS in spat with hedge fund over CDO Well, you have to hand it to them, they certainly aren't raving like CNBC.