A few days ago, I was talking to a friend who was excitedly discussing her holiday bonus. Amazingly, she works in an industry that’s doing quite well, and her (privately owned) company is paying out bonuses this year. They don’t know how much they’re getting, but she got an estimated figure from someone allegedly in [...]
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Over the weekend, I stumbled across this article: Britain urging return to wartime food frugality. There is growing concern that affordable quality food will become scarce, not due to war, but due to the rising costs of both food and energy. Of course, this is a problem around the world, but until this article, I hadn’t [...] Yesterday, an AP article discussed that “Women should factor longer life into retirement.” According to the article, women live an average of 22 years after retirement, while men only live 19 years after retirement, and given the increase in medical costs, women therefore need to save 2% more than men every year for 30 years to [...] Five Cent Nickel recently asked bloggers to post about their biggest financial vices. I wasn’t sure what this might be off the top of my head. A year ago, I would have said it was books or purchases from Lush. But since putting myself on a budget, I’ve been very good [...] Earlier this week, I read this article about the current state of the American economy. I found the discussion of the dollar versus the Euro to be fascinating. First off, I don’t think that I knew that the dollar was considered “the leading international currency.” Given the recent American domination in many areas, I [...] |
 
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