Microsoft layoffs go the extra mile
Microsoft confirmed that it’s laying off 800 more employees today. Along with that announcement come a couple of fun facts: not only are they ahead of their June 2010 deadline, they are ahead on numbers of people they planned to lay off!
So I guess laying [...]
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Pros and Cons of Pay Day Loans
Short-term loans have been known to be the financial tools utilized by many individuals at some point of their life. And pay day loans are a great avenue to pursue in order to fulfill one’s emergency cash needs in [...]
Will Obama push finance reform through after health care?
Health care reform may be in the political spotlight right now, but there’s a crisis of another color that hasn’t disappeared. It bears the color of money, a color that many believe President Obama has fed Wall Street but kept from the [...]
‘9′ movie doesn’t get a 10 … or a 9
Sometimes timing just isn’t enough to make a movie into an event. The makers of “9″ the movie planned from the beginning to have the film released on 09-09-09, and I would bet my payday check that they came up with [...]
The significance of National Flip Flop Day®
I found out that today is National Flip Flop Day® when I was getting warmed up to look online for a quick payday loan. I saw it listed on Google Trends between “US Open” and “Jammie Thomas-Rasset,” so I knew it was significant. [...]
Don’t become a statistic
If you’re unemployed and you give up looking for a job, you will not be alone. In economic jargon you will be a “discouraged worker,” and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were about 717,000 of those in the first quarter of this year. [...]
Riding the whirlwind to recovery
“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.”
- George Carlin
Life as an addict cannot be broken down into two separate things: living life on the one hand, dealing with addiction on the other. From all that I understand, [...]
Whole body imaging causes controversy
Airport security personnel argue that whole body imaging is less invasive than a pat-down, but many individuals and a group called the Privacy Coalition beg to differ.
Whole body imaging uses millimeter wave technology to scan people from head to toe so airport security can see what [...]