http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents Just another The Ithacan Blogs weblog Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:32:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Any shopping I do while I'm at school is usually done over the Internet. With the exception of books, I pretty much buy most of what I need online (I think we can all agree the mall in Ithaca is nothing to brag about). I also do not like to ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/09/18/coupons/ If you're free tomorrow at 5 p.m., head over to the other hill for "The Great Financial Crisis: What Caused it? What is Next?" in Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall. Robert Kuttner (Co-Editor of The American Prospect; Senior Fellow at Demos), Barry Eichengreen (Professor, University of California, Berkeley), and Eswar Prasad ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/09/14/go-give-your-two-cents/ A very bad thing happened to me recently involving my debit card, a few slow to process transactions and a very angry bank. A while back I had made a few purchases for the start of school and for whatever reason, they all took a very long time to show ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/09/12/whered-all-my-money-go-and-word-of-the-week/ In this economy, everyone is freaking out about what to do after graduation. So, I'm going to break it down for you thanks to some research and this handy chart. Places Not to Go: Detriot, MI; Riverside, C; Providence, RI; Charlotte, NC; Portland, OR. Places to Go: Oklahoma City, OK; San Antonio, TX; New ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/09/10/im-moving-to-texas/ “In the context of a full-blooded recovery, this report is disappointing,” said Alan Ruskin, an economist with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Stamford, Conn. “We’re still clawing our way back.” Taken from a New York Times article from the weekend after the Labor Department released August's unemployment numbers. According to ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/09/07/weekend-recap/ The summer of 2009 was the summer when nothing positive happened. The stock market went up but it didn't help the economy. The classic bear market "sucker rally," which lifted stocks by 50%, still left the Dow 5,000 points short of its all time high. In other words, those who ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/09/05/the-wall-street-journal-explains-why-this-summer-was-a-bore/ Rent them on Chegg! I don't know why I haven't heard about this site until now. Or why I dropped $300 on books (13 books on Amazon. Used. Can you believe that?!) But the gist of it is, you pay a pretty low price to use your books for the semester. From ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/09/04/dont-buy-your-books/ I'm not going to lie; I'm no expert on money in the traditional sense. The one economics class I took in high school put me into dream land every day, and the economic crisis kind of makes my me want to hide under a rock. But I am one really ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/08/31/here-goes-nothin/ You don't have to know with certainty what's right and what's wrong, but you can know what's stupid. ... Taxing bonuses at AIG is stupid. Anything that Congress passes in a short period of time is pretty much stupid. -Adam Davidson, business and economics reporter at NPR at the Nieman Conference on ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/03/23/money-talks-3/ The price of gas when you first started driving has now become one of those life facts you'll never forget and always bring up as a reference point: When I started driving gas was $1.95 and I spent about $18 a week). Right now, it seems gas is going back up ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/2009/03/02/gas-tools-galore/