Paying Off Your Mortgage | What to Consider (Pt. 2)

Is your plate big enough?
CLICK HERE if you missed part one of this article.
So think long and hard about what you need in a home, because the mortgage costs are very real. Even if you are in a dual-income family, with both at the average income, the average home and [...]

Choose the home that's right for you (Photo: flickr.com)

Paying Off Your Mortgage | The Real Costs (Pt. 1)

The costs of home
For most people, the greatest monetary expense they will take on during their lifetime is that of buying a home. Despite the fact that mortgage costs are tremendous. From ubiquitous idiomatic expressions like “home is where the heart is” to classic exclamations the caliber of “He is [...]

Home ownership is an expensive endeavor (Photo: flickr.com)

Business Start-ups look to Installment Loans

The start-up business

New businesses are increasingly looking for installment loans to finance their start-up. In the past, hopeful new businesses could find venture capitalists to fund them. Investors were looking to join a promising business proposal from “the ground floor” and then take points off future earnings or share ownership. [...]

September 2008 Losses

Class War: Costing America More Than AIG Ever Will (1)

Separate and unequal

AIG and companies like them have been allowed to cripple America’s economy. Yet for all the taxpayer cash advance money they’ve been allowed to burn through like tin foil in a microwave, there are bigger fish to irradiate.
Keli Goff, author of the book “Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop [...]

Fixing American Schools the Obama Way (Pt.2)

“Dropping out is quitting on yourself”
This concludes my look at President Obama’s plans to improve American education. CLICK HERE if you missed part one.
President Obama does not accept the current high-school dropout rate in America, which is among the highest of any industrialized nation. The rate has tripled over the [...]