November 2006

DINKS make the top 100!

November 30, 2006

Hi All, This is another off-topic post, but I wanted to let our readers know that the DINKS made it on the top 100 blogs for 2007 as noted by creditcard.org. Creditcard.org is a site that offers form letters for corresponding with credit monitoring agencies and a forum for answering questions regarding credit and debt. [...]

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Woman Attempts Sexual Extortion, Gets Caught

November 30, 2006

Okay, this post has nothing to do with this weeks theme here at the DINKS, but its got sex, lies, money and extortion, all the things that make a great story. Supposedly, this woman Jessica Wolcott who is a notorious internet strumpet, attempted to extort $125,000 from Pepsi executive Gary Wandschneider by threatening to tell [...]

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Magic Johnson on Economic Empowerment

November 29, 2006

Magic Johnson is one of America’s better known Afro-American celebrities. He’s also really rich, and has been smart about his money, so he’s probably worth listening to. This clip is pretty short, so you might want to check it out what he has to say.

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Race & Income in the US

November 28, 2006

In honor of race week, I thought it would be good to look to our census data to check out what it tells us. According to the data, Whites certainly come out on top, which isn’t much of a surprise. Hispanics have consistently come in above Blacks in America. This is interesting because, I would [...]

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The Black Millioniare Next Door

November 28, 2006

Today’s posting is an interview with J.G. Thomas and Monifa Thomas from the Tavis Smiley show on National Public Radio. The purpose of the interview was to discuss Tomas and Tomas’ work describing African-Americans wealth. Since you’re probably short on time, I’ll briefly describe the results of their research here. The main finding of their [...]

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Minorities and Wealth

November 27, 2006

Race and wealth is always a touchy issue here in the States. While on the one hand, free trade and transparent capital markets have done wonders for many Americans, other ethnic groups are sometimes left behind in our economic system. That said, in an effort to bring Afro-American voices into the personal finance discussion, here [...]

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Europe at a fraction of the cost!

November 26, 2006

Macedonia is a slice of Europe at a fraction of the cost! I’ve been in Macedonia for the last week for business and thought I’d share a bit about this fabulous country. While I’ve been working 12-14 hrs days and haven’t had much of a chance to explore, but I can share a few tidbits. [...]

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Why You Should Save Money

November 25, 2006

Check out this video of a homeless guy waxing poetic about being on the street. This is an excellent example of why you should save money.

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Cancelled IBD, am now trading less.

November 25, 2006

A while back, I was having some trouble daytrading too much. One solution that I came up with was to cancel my subscription to the Investors Business Daily. IBD is a great newspaper, but every morning I’d obsess about the latest hot stocks on the subway. I found that the temptation was too much. To [...]

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Milton Friedman on Tariffs

November 24, 2006

[REMOVED] So, we’re rounding out our tribute to Milton Friedman week here at the DINKS. If you have a spare couple of minutes, you might want to check out this video where Milton Friedman discusses his opinions about tariffs. The video is just one minute and thirty seconds or so, but its got Don Rumsfeld, [...]

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