Archive for September, 2011
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011Just wanted to remind you to enter your name for the latest book giveaway here at AFM. Go to this page and enter your name. I’ll be announcing the winner tomorrow morning. Good luck!
Robert Reich: “The Limping Middle Class”
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011One of my facebook friends mentioned this op-ed piece by Robert Reich in the New York Times: The Limping Middle Class. Starting in the late 1970s, the middle class began to weaken. Although productivity continued to grow and the economy continued to expand, wages began flattening in the 1970s because new technologies — container ships, [...]
Restaurants Are Wanting a Piece of the Food Stamp Action
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011This is all we need. People being able to use their food stamps at Taco Bell. Where does it end? Read: More restaurants are targeting customers who use food stamps (USA Today).
Another “Jobs” Plan…
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011From Obama to propose $300 billion to jump-start jobs: According to people familiar with the White House deliberations, two of the biggest measures in the president’s proposals for 2012 are expected to be a one-year extension of a payroll tax cut for workers and an extension of expiring jobless benefits. Together those two would total [...]
GIVEAWAY: “The Ultimate Financial Plan”
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011I received a copy of Tim Maurer and Jim Stovall’s The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life* a week or so ago. I’m about 25% of the way through the book but I like what I have read enough to go ahead and host a giveaway of a copy. I think AFM readers [...]
Milton Friedman’s Prophetic Thoughts on the Euro
Sunday, September 4th, 2011Saw this in Barron’s this weekend: Speaking in 1998, just before the launch of the euro in January of the following year, monetary economist Milton Friedman said he was “not optimistic” about the new currency’s prospects. “Suppose things go badly, and Italy is in trouble,” he observed with eerie prescience. An independently traded Italian lira, [...]
Interesting Video: Keynesian Economics Is Wrong
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Interesting. Tell me what you think.
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