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April 2009 Archives
As the global economy forces all kinds of industries to fold, downsize and restructure, the porn industry holds firm. Well, that's what Australian-based Atlas Media Services is hoping. They are distributing the AdultPrepaid card, which grants its holder access to a newly founded pornography Web site.
If it often seems like you can't trust anyone anymore, this collection of crime stories isn't going to make you feel much better. In this week's Criminal Charges, employees of the department of taxation, the department of health and the post office in the New York/New Jersey area apparently turned to credit card theft for some added income.
The Carnival of Personal Finance (The Lao Tzu Edition) includes one of my Criminal Charges blog posts in the "credit and debt" section of the carnival.
In this week's roundup of the best credit card-related posts from the blogosphere, we explore the Hubble Telescope, an incredible (and troublesome) invention that was launched on this date 19 years ago and changed astronomy forever.
Is it wrong to sell the American Dream? Boyce Watkins, a professor of finance, says Russell Simmons and his Rush Card are doing just that.
In this week's edition of Criminal Charges, I've set the table with a selection of tasty morsels, including a dumpster diving thief, a Burger King employee who allegedly stashed some plastic in a less-than-savory spot and a policeman charged with stealing a credit card to pay for some robust restaurant bills.
Looking for some online personal finance reading? Take a trip over to the latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance, which includes my blog post on credit card sleeves.
Famous hip-hopper Jay-Z and his crew are being accused by a New York restaurant of trying to skip out on a large bill.
I tried painting with a credit card instead of a paint brush. And took lots of pictures.
In this week's credit card roundup, we relate personal finance and debt to Geoffrey Chaucer's epic and comical "The Canterbury Tales."
When engaging in risky activities, you need an added layer of protection. So to curb impulse shopping, encase your credit card in a reminder to think before you spend.
In celebration of heads everywhere, this edition of Criminal Charges includes news items where that appendage played an important role. First, we've got a father who allegedly flipped his lid over credit card expenses and threatened to chop off his son's head. Next, we have a banker who stands accused of stealing thousands of dollars from her customers in part to pay for straightening her sons' teeth.
My first blog was included in MoneyNing's 200th edition of their Carnival of Personal Finance. What a warm welcome into the blogosphere!
In celebration of National Siblings Day, this week's credit card round-up celebrates the ups and downs that come with having brothers and sisters, and how this can relate to personal finance.
Consumer confidence and consumer spending had generally walked hand in hand over the past 30 years -- sometimes rising, sometimes falling, but rarely straying too far from one another. That all changed somewhere in the middle of this decade, according to a new essay from economists with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
We all have different ways we say no to overconsumption, but sculptor R. Lloyd Ming's newest work, which features a crucifix made out of credit card logos, takes the act further than your average hyperbolic consumer.
This week's collection of card crimes focuses on crimes involving schools, with a parent who apparently stole plastic from a teacher, a teacher who stole from the city to pay her credit card bills and a trio of students who broke into lockers in order to steal money, merchandise and plastic.
Wide Open Wallet hosted the 198th edition of the the Carnival of Personal Finance and was nice enough to include my blog "Donor wants $10,000 back for missing inauguration."
In this week's round-up of some of the best posts from the personal finance blogosphere, we use the anniversary of Tweed's Day to reflect on corruption, and how you can remedy corrupt finances.
It's always appreciated when one of my blogs is included in a collection of worthwhile reads from across the personal finance blogosphere. So it's twice as nice when two of my blogs are accepted into carnivals.
My not-so-irrational fear of spiraling into eternal debt and high-APR inferno keeps me, at 21, from getting a credit card.
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