Every week, we will highlight the best posts on the web. They can either be thought provoking or simply have made us laugh. This week’s The Katana 9/26 highlights include: 1) Five Pence Piece: 10 Economic Predictions for 2010. Lee provides his dire predictions for the UK, and I just love his conviction! 2) Wisebread’s Paul Michael: […]
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One of the main reasons why I returned my MacBook Pro laptop was because I failed to get published on Wise Bread before my return policy ran out. I figured why not have this goal in order to justify spending such a large some of money? After all, a writer needs his tools! Well, I’m
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After much debate, I walked over to the Apple store and returned my oh so sweet Macbook Pro laptop. Today was the last day until the return policy on the laptop expired. I actually felt a little bit sad, because I got to see the laptop when the store clerk cut open the sticker
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Every now and again, it’s good for the little people to ask the big people for some help. Our inaugural “Open Letter Series” to Vikram Pandit is inspired by a bank teller friend of mine at Citigroup who lost her job through no fault of her own. She recently found a new position at
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Your net worth is rubbish due to poor real estate estimate, your net worth might be very off. After all these years, Zillow still can’t get its property estimates right. Zillow is also a great reason why you’ve got to be careful calculating your net worth if you have property. To prove my point regarding
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Paying off debt should be straight forward. Yet so many people fail to pay off their debts? If you go $106,000 into personal debt, and pay it off in 5 years, you apparently get the Professional Achievement and Counseling Excellence (PACE) 2009 Graduate Client of the Year Award. I was hoping for a longer award name,
Family Gets Award For Paying Off Debt & Jumps Right Back In! Read More »
Your net worth is an illusion. Unless your house is fully paid for, and unless you can access your retirement accounts and liquidate your business today, your net worth is not real. Although we’ve recovered quite a long way since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, we can never fully count on the full value of
Your Net Worth Is An Illusion, Sorry To Spoil Your Delusion! Read More »
Why is it that the #1 re-occurring theme in the personal finance community is addressing how to eradicate debt due to overspending? What is it that makes a rational person spend more than their income allows? Why do people spend more than they make? It’s irrational. If you have $5 bucks in your hand for
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Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player today. She is not a nerd. Apparently someone sent over last week’s article, “Revenge of The Nerds: Golf and Tennis Are #1” to Serena Williams, and it just pissed her off! Serena’s anger built up so much, she finally blew her top against a lines official after calling
Serena Williams Is NOT A Nerd. We’re Sorry! Read More »
During the Global Financial Crisis in 2009, A Wells Fargo Senior VP, Cheronda Guyton moved into a foreclosed $12 million mansion with her family and hosted extravagant house parties. Meanwhile, her job is to figure out how to profit from foreclosures. But she didn’t allow brokers to show the Wells Fargo-owned place because her family
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