As with at least some of you I’m sure, I’ve had to sit by silent and with a certain degree of envy as friends, neighbors and even my daughter and son-in-law whipped out their Apple iPhones and achieved magical Internet things or played magical games or even made magical phone calls, right there in the [...]
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When I was much younger, small-town banks would, upon the request of a good customer, issue a line of credit. If you tapped it, they would charge interest on the amount you tapped until you paid it back. Later, after almost every small-town bank was sold to a regional or “national” bank, doing the paperwork [...]
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Just before we last did our family budget exercise, I was concerned about how much we were paying for food, and had guessed that our two-adult, two elementary schoolchildren family was spending about $200 a week at the grocery store. But the truth was much worse. We were spending $300 a week on groceries, making [...]
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The first step is denial, and let’s get past that right now. I don’t care what the technicians call it, you and I are facing the biggest economic meltdown in three generations. At this point there’s no further need to define it historically. For American families, the time has come to deal with it. That [...]
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