Cooling your Home Cheaply

Cooling your Home Cheaply

Tired of sitting in the smoldering heat instead of being comfortable in your own home? Afraid of turning on the central air for fear of that dreaded jump in energy costs that will be showing …
Civilians Soldiers and the Rules of War

Civilians Soldiers and the Rules of War

Event Total Dead US Population % of Population Total War DeadPearl Harbor 2,388 131,028,000 0.00182% 418,5009/11 2,752 281,424,603 0.00098% 3,063 Comparison:On December 7th, 1939, Japan used short-range carrier based planes to bomb Pearl Harbor and …
Online Payday Loans an Overview

Online Payday Loans an Overview

What are Online Payday Loans?Online payday loans are loans from an online lender for a short term typically sixty days or less for a high interest rate. Rates can range from 260.00% and 780.00%.Consumers can …
Health Insurance for the Unemployed

Health Insurance for the Unemployed

When you suddenly find yourself unemployed how do you provide health insurance for your family and yourself? That is a question that is on the minds of more and more Americans these days. There are …
How to Cash in us Savings Bonds

How to Cash in us Savings Bonds

There are three classes of savings bonds which are EE/E Savings Bonds, I Savings Bonds and HH/H Savings Bonds. Each category of savings bonds has slightly different requirements for redemption.  The bond series typically designates …
Understanding Online Bill Pay

Understanding Online Bill Pay

Online bill pay services are a fast, convenient, and an inexpensive way to manage your bills. Put aside concerns about security or fraud: Online bill pay can be safer than traditional methods because mail can …
Reasons for Saving some Money

Reasons for Saving some Money

It is always a good idea to save some money back from each paycheck. Sometimes people make the mistake of living paycheck to paycheck without saving anything in between. This “might” be fine for some …
Difference between Patents and Trademarks

Difference between Patents and Trademarks

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but, when it comes to your personal intellectual property, it is definitely the sort of compliment you’d want to avoid. Fortunately, protection against others stealing your idea …
How to Buy Exchange Traded Funds Etfs

How to Buy Exchange Traded Funds Etfs

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) began in the United States in 1993. Since then, they have spread to Europe and have exploded in the U.S. They have become popular with individual investors as well as institutional …
How to Save Money when Renting an Apartment

How to Save Money when Renting an Apartment

The apartment hunting process can be difficult. There are many things that need to be taken into consideration for instance, amenities, parking, size, and location. However, the most important thing you need to look deeply …
How to Fund College if You’re not Rich

How to Fund College if You’re not Rich

Next to the purchase of a home or retirement, college costs are the highest expenditure families will face. Increases in college tuition outpace inflation year after year. There are ways to combat this but families …
Where to Invest

Where to Invest

If these were normal times then normal investment advice would be appropriate; but with the massive Federal Government Debt: at present over 16 Trillion Dollars and rising by $100,000 every 10 seconds, this is the …
The best way to Buy Foreclosures

The best way to Buy Foreclosures

Within the realm of real estate investing, each type of investment (foreclosures, fixers, land, REITs, etc) has its good and bad times to buy. To be a successful investor you need to be able to …
Freebies are Fun but the Price may be too High

Freebies are Fun but the Price may be too High

Freebies are products companies give to consumers at no price. Long before the establishment of the Internet, many companies handed out freebies in stores, provided mail-in offers and other ways to distribute their products. Giveaways …