Reality-Defying Futurama Flying Car For Sale On Amazon For A Mere $50,000! [Novelties]

Good news everyone! A recently-launched merchant on Amazon — named Jetson — is offering the "Futurama Flying Car" for the bargain price of only $50, ... up for the Amazon Visa credit card after we added it to our cart - talk about a deal! Hold on, our Nigerian ... .. No more bloody traffic! I cant say a bad thing about it.. It also is compatible with my [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 20:00:00

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The Strategic Advantages Of Maximizing Natural Business Growth

By Donald Mitchell Growth can occur naturally . . . or it can be forced by using bad methods ... on unsustainable gimmicks to grow their businesses (such as zero percent interest car loans, 125 percent of assessed value home loans with teaser rates, and tripling interest rates on credit cards for those [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:02:38

Reality TV Listings: January 17, 2009

Solitary 3.0 premieres tonight on FOX Reality Channel! ... ET/PT Top Chef - Bravo TV Bad Girls Club - Oxygen 3PM - 430PM ET/PT Rob & Big- MTV2 3PM ... about your favorite show! Photo Credit: FOX ShareThis Related posts:Reality TV Listings: January [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:16:54

Bush: 'Entire economy is in danger'

by Mark Silva President Bush, delivering a nationally televised appeal for an unprecedented federal buyout of $700 billion in bad mortgage debts, ... be more difficult for you to get the loans you need to buy a car or send your children to college ... , you would find it harder and more expensive to get credit. More businesses would close their doors [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 02:13:56

A Chicken Bailout in Every Pot (Car Loan Edition)

Since the TARP has a very big checkbook and a very broad mandate (it can buy any kind of dud loan it chooses to, plus bona fide assets) ... or that market liquidity is hurting pricing. From Reuters, "Finance companies want US to buy bad auto ... auto loans to the government as part of Washington's sweeping plan to restimulate credit markets [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 07:06:08

Is Making 100K in One Day Selling Real Estate Guru Product Bad for Business?

That depends. Who is the speaker? What is the product? Was it done in a pitch-fest? ... about their beautiful spouse and kids or need to see pictures of them in front of their 60K car? “Selling ... ! (But first they “qualify you” by checking to see how much money you have on your credit cards!) YIKES [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 20:58:43

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Find out which star was most searched on Yahoo in 2008 - Anything Hollywood Is Mary-Kate Olsen pregnant? - Celeb Warship Courtney Love is looking for a little credit for Britney Spears breakdown ... Lohan have a Facebook alias? - Celebrity Dirty Laundry Brandon Davis crashes into Pink’s car [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 14:19:58

Bad Financial Advice: Why Paying Cash Isn't The Deal You Think It Is

There is no bromide more popular in personal finance than "just pay cash" ... to your credit union, your $10,000 would have continued to grow at interest, and you would have had a car ... is dumb". But is it true? Let's take the example of paying cash for a $10,000 car (because the other [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 01:44:57

The Personal Effect of the Financial Crisis

With the steady stream of bad news coming at us from all directions, it’s clear that the financial crisis is taking its toll on the economy ... situation. In many areas, prices have declined significantly. From car dealerships to retailers ... affected those trying to sell their homes, or perhaps those with large home equity lines of credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 14:45:40

US Job Market getting weaker

Bad News from US and Europe keeps pouring in. Here is a recent list ... to a fourth-quarter loss as provisions for credit-losses nearly tripled, while the company showed why ... low in 2008 as weak consumer confidence ate into demand for new cars amid the world-wide financial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:03:00

Toyota: Credit Not Responsible For Current Sales Slump, But Please Hurry Up And Fix! [Toyota Sales]

Jim Lentz, Toyota's US sales chief, told the Detroit News yesterday that consumer financing isn't their challenge right now; rather, ... are postponing car purchases. Dealers across the country are singing a similar tune, saying that well-qualified buyers can still get financing, but continuing bad economic news is keeping buyers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 14:00:00

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In today's news: Is the economy dead ? “Okay, this is a shocker,” said Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets. “We’re not talking about a shot across the bow of the optimists, this is more like a torpedo through the hull. Imported wine at seven bucks a bottle. Incredibly cheap food, jeans and household staples. Real estate prices 40% below levels of more than a decade ago. Structural unemployment and families that save a fifth of their gross income. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 03:26:03

How We Saved $10,000 in a Year Giving Up Nothing We Knew About

Times are tough.  People are losing their homes at record pace, sinking further and further into debt.  Auto repossessors are making a killing as car loans drop like flies.  But the truth is that things aren’t nearly as bad as we seem to think.  We perceive it as such because we are, in short, an utterly wasteful and gluttonous society.  Even those who constitute the low income households waste more money in a month than many people in the world will see in a year.  I know, I know.  This is the [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 11:38:44

Michael Moore: Interview of “Capitalism: A Love Story”

Thanks to Radical Eyes for suggesting this interview, which appeared on Democracy Now, and is available in audio.Guest: Michael Moore, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. His latest film, Capitalism: A Love Story, opened in New York and Los Angeles yesterday. It opens nationwide on October 2nd.JUAN GONZALEZ: It was a year ago today when President George W. Bush gave a primetime address urging Americans to support the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 16:29:27

We Don’t Expect to See Australian Banks Suddenly Keen to Expand their Loan Books

It seems appropriate that hopes of a further rally in the Aussie stock market are being pinned on the IPO of a retailer. It's like saying a prayer to the god of consumerism for share market salvation. Amen. The $2.5 billion listing of Myer is expected this week. And what better way to celebrate a six-month reality-defying rally than the listing of a consumer-driven business? Happy days are here again! Not that we have anything against Myer. It's a good store. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 03:56:38

The Battle Continues

The rally may end any day, but it didn’t end yesterday. Stocks rose 127 points, as measured by the Dow. Oil closed at $66. Gold rose $2.50. We said we were doing some serious thinking this week. Maybe it is the season. But more and more, our thoughts become grayer. Less black. Less white. Less hard. Less soft. A few years ago, it looked to us as though the world financial system had gone to war. We cheerfully awaited the victory parade. We figured Mr. Market would whup the feds good and hard. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 18:37:13

The Battle Continues

The rally may end any day, but it didn’t end yesterday. Stocks rose 127 points, as measured by the Dow. Oil closed at $66. Gold rose $2.50. We said we were doing some serious thinking this week. Maybe it is the season. But more and more, our thoughts become grayer. Less black. Less white. Less hard. Less soft. A few years ago, it looked to us as though the world financial system had gone to war. We cheerfully awaited the victory parade. We figured Mr. Market would whup the feds good and hard. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 18:37:13

Don't confuse political consensus with wisdom

We won't know the full story on Iowa's film tax credit for weeks, as investigators look into lax oversight and other problems at the Iowa Department of Economic Development. It may be months before we learn whether Iowa taxpayers will end up paying around $110 million or as much as $300 million in exchange for some temporary jobs in the film industry. One thing is already clear, however: the original bill creating the film tax credit laid the ground for this costly mistake. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 16:59:04

UK: Council hires hoodie spies to rummage through bins and see what is being thrown away

Hey, Toronto: guess what those RFID scannable and barcoded garbage bins you just got this year are for? Note the standardized appearance of the bin in the photo below. And garbage seizure? We’ve our own set of ridiculous rulings in place now authorizing the same: Flashback: Toronto: New bin regime spawns new rules, confusion for avid recyclers | Trash search doesn’t violate privacy rights, says top court | London Police Encourage Citizens To Inform on Neighbour’s Garbage | UK Slips New [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 15:05:14

We’re Still a Nation of Spenders, Not Squirrels

Will we be spenders or savers? It is a big question for the economy. Without a rise in consumer spending it is hard to get economic growth. It is also a big question for retailers and other businesses relying on consumer demand. The evidence on what has been happening so far is mixed. Official figures suggest that retail spending has held up better than many other parts of the economy, with a 2.1% rise in sales volume last month compared with a year earlier. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 18:56:25

Buy a student car loan without any difficulty

Amazon.de Widgets Cars are becoming a necessary part of every individual’s life. Becoming owner of the car is a dream of every body whether it is office employee or business men. Even a student would want it for his personal needs. By having his own car saves lot of time in traveling and one does not have to wait to go to the place he thinks. Every possibility of getting a student car loan from the market. You must have face to face meeting with the lenders for driving away your dream car. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 10:14:45

We're Still a Nation of Spenders, Not Squirrels

Will we be spenders or savers? It is a big question for the economy. Without a rise in consumer spending it is hard to get economic growth. It is also a big question for retailers and other businesses relying on consumer demand. The evidence on what has been happening so far is mixed. Official figures suggest that retail spending has held up better than many other parts of the economy, with a 2.1% rise in sales volume last month compared with a year earlier. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 18:03:11

Bad Credit Used Car Loan Financing Tips

If we have prior credit problems on your jot down and need to squeeze a car, we might need to request for what is called a bad credit used automobile loan. A bad credit used automobile loan will concede we to squeeze a vehicle, though we will customarily be approaching to compensate it off in a shorter time support and during a aloft rate of interest.Today many normal automobile lenders have been charity lengthened remuneration terms; a little concede we up to 7 years to compensate off a vehicle. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 22:03:51

SunTrust Racing: Utah 250 Preview

TOOELE, Utah (Sept. 15, 2009) – When the curtain came down on the four-race “Solid Is Lightning Fast” summer tour of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series three weekends ago at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, SunTrust Racing’s Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle were spraying victory champagne for the second time in their last four outings.   The unique promotion of SunTrust’s mobile and online banking products, featuring an eye-catching silver paint scheme on the No. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 02:25:00

The Way Too Long Review for WWE: Hell in a Cell

Given the pay-per-view this weekend, this seemed like a good idea to post.  I actually wonder how many people will just click the link, thinking that we have TV taping results for the show. And you can check out my preview of Hell in a Cell, the Pay Per View, Wednesday on the TWP Pass, which you can find at thewrestlingpress.com or off the i-Tunes store. Mick Foley hosts the bumpers and says nothing of note. DISC ONE Match #1: Hell in a Cell Shawn Michaels vs. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 10:00:41

Get Car Insurance Rate Comparisons Online

Auto word deductibles On my approach to a association certified seminar, a deer strike my car, causing substantial damage. As it was my personal car, not my company’s, my automobile word will be used to cover a damages. Free automobile word rate quotes and brand new automobile prices direct. Auto policies have been heavily regulated by a state we live in and many situations need word to compensate no make a disproportion who’s pushing your car. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 18:24:18

Week 3 Monday Morning Hangover, Where the Lions Get King Kong Off Their Back

Matthew Stafford Photo Credit: Icon SMI The day belonged to the Detroit Lions. Brett Favre and Greg Lewis were brilliant in their miraculous, game-saving hookup in the back of the endzone that gave the Vikings a dramatic 27-24 win over the San Francisco 49ers and a 3-0 record to start the season. Maurice Jones-Drew broke out for one of the year’s biggest fantasy days in racking up 147 total yards and 3 TDs against the abominable Houston Texans defense. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 16:40:44

How to Handle Terminating an Employee

Be Prepared Before Terminating an Employee Determine is any contractual obligations are owed to or owed from the employee. Examine any applicable employment contract, collective bargaining, non-disclosure or non-competition agreement. Review the employee’s compensation and benefit issues. Calculate what may be owed and identify which benefits may be continued. If possible, have the necessary notices and/or forms ready. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 15:36:10

Top Gun FP Client Note: The Crack Based Economy

NOTE: Every week I write a Client Note for my clients.  For a limited time, I am allowing non-clients to sign up and receive the Client Note.  You can sign up at the top right hand corner of the website.  Here is this week’s. ***** Yes, the financial crisis has passed and the economy is growing again, but there’s a good chance that growth will be temporary - the result of one-time events like “Cash for Clunkers”, the tax credit for first-time home buyers and the restocking of inventories [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 20:08:02

Buy Here Pay Here Car Lots on Bad Credit

by John Knight Buy here pay here car lots, do not worry about bad credit. We all know how difficult it is to get auto financing if you have bad credit. For that matter, anyone can take just about any kind of financing. There is an estimated 100 million plus of Americans having bad credit. That makes a third of the populace of the United States of America, or over a half of the people considered to be in the car-buying age group. At least you will not feel alone. The economy is really bad. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 19:12:01

Review: Nokia BH-905

The good Comfortable design Very good noise cancelling Excellent audio quality Comes with an array of audio connections in case your device does not have stereo Bluetooth The bad The active noise cancelling on the Nokia BH-905 can take a second or two to activate The headset is comparatively expensive While we love the idea of cord-free portable music, stereo Bluetooth headsets are often maligned with poor quality audio. Or at least, that's how it was in the past. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 06:38:01

M's Racing: Kyle Busch Fall New Hampshire Advance

For Every Problem There is an Opportunity     HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (Sept. 16, 2009) – In the face of bitter disappointment, one might be able to take comfort in the old saying, “For every problem there is an opportunity.”   Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 18 M&M’s Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), is certainly disappointed since he now faces the next 10-race stretch of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule without being part of the 12-driver Chase for the Championship. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 01:32:17

Hepzibah Tales

Talking about money management and budgets is not something I enjoy. I’d rather discuss dismemberment, or the landscape of Idaho ... of the condo, plus some child-related debt. I did pay off all my credit cards, from the home equity ... happen. I am bringing my lunch to work, which is really a savings. I was fixing my big spinach salad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:33:40

Bad Credit Car Refinance Options

Your bad credit car refinancing is very easy to do if you act fast after first getting your loan. Once a car loan drops below about 8,000 dollars, it is hard for even people with great credit scores to find refinancing options. Although, when car loans do drop below that 8,000 dollar mark, there are alternative methods of refinancing available so that all monthly bills can be lowered into a range that can be paid easily if income drops unexpectedly. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 17:57:47

Reed’s Bargain Bin: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Reed’s Bargain Bin is a recurring column where Reed Farrington tells us about a movie he bought for under $5, and whether or not he regrets the purchase.“Blowed ‘em up good, blowed ‘em up real good!” If Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok from SCTV’s Farm Film Report had been on Rotten Tomatoes’ (RT) staff, then there’s no way that Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (BEVS) would ever be in the list of RT’s worst movies of the past decade. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 13:09:52

From Baku to Russian-Occupied Georgia

“Russia can have at its borders only enemies or vassals.” – George F. Kennan, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union “You must draw a white-hot iron over this Georgian land!…You will have to break the wings of this Georgia! Let the blood of the petit bourgeois flow until they give up all their resistance! Impale them! Tear them apart! [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 08:22:34

MS Office Passwords and Password Recovery Programs

By Albert McZeallyAll of us want to protect ourselves. At home we have fire alarms, sprinklers and burglar alarms to keep our families safe ... for something untoward. Anyone who keeps financial information such as credit card or bank account numbers ... that you forgot the password. Although writing down your passwords seem like a bad idea, if you are [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 22:04:00

Bailout Nation: "If we bail out Detroit, where do we stop?"

The unprecedented government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has ushered in a new era of government intervention in corporate ... is a bad credit risk -- the corporate equivalent of a subprime borrower looking for a huge mortgage ... billion in low-interest loans, the L.A. Times reports. There are also whispers on Wall Street [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 00:30:25

Selling The Auto Rescue (and maybe a Chrysler) to Congress

ABC's Zach Wolf from Washington: CEOs for the big three auto makers are going to be up on Capitol Hill later today under the klieg lights before ... his lot instead. Eddy said its unfair when he hears people say American car companies have made bad ... the Senate Banking asking Congress for $25 billion in loans to get them through the tough economic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 18:23:49

FALLING PRICES ARE NOT DEFLATION BUT THE ANTIDOTE TO DEFLATION

This is the first in a series of articles that seeks to provide the intelligent layman with sufficient knowledge of sound economic theory to enable ... article of The New York Times of last November 1 provides a typical example of this confusion. It declares: As dozens of countries slip deeper into financial distress, a new threat may be gathering [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:22:19

Prisoners In Our Own Homes

The Globe & Mail reports from Canada. “For the throngs wandering through open houses this weekend, it may feel as though they fell through the looking glass while they were peering into closets. The downturn seems like a bad dream. Housing prices have rebounded, formerly gun-shy buyers are back on the market, and bidding wars abound. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 17:34:07

Who Wins, Who Loses Under Proposed Bailout Plan?

WASHINGTON — The proposal to bail out U.S. financial markets to the tune of up to $700 billion creates a lot of potential short-term winners, ... winners, too, if the bailout works as intended: anyone soon trying to borrow money _ for cars, student loans, even to open new credit card accounts. Top executives at troubled financial institutions [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 23:35:52

GMAC Auto Loans

11 of the best sites about GMAC auto loans. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page. (Related searches: Auto Loans ,  GMAC Smart Lease , GMAC Auto Insurance ) 1. GMAC Automotive Financing - Home page of GMAC financing for car loans, truck loans and leases, including information on their SmartBuy and SmartLease programs that allow you to get into a GM vehicle for a lower monthly payment. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 14:59:09

The Assets of Penultimate Fools

by The Mogambo Guru I was standing at the highway interchange, yelling at all the cars that went zooming by me as their drivers ignored my signs, ... with their preposterous new economic theories constantly create money and credit, to allow you to create more debt ... it to, "The consumer is completely strapped out, and without the ability to secure cred [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 01:27:52

Half a Million Lost Jobs, Civil Unrest, the Obama Rally and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Another half a million jobs lost… unemployment reaches new historic highs So how long until people take to the streets? Army already plans to “quell civil unrest” Consumers, businesses borrow less… Bill Bonner on why government spending can’t cure private withdrawal Hoping for an Obama rally? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:36:29

Party Favors: Hail! Hail! Chuck Berry

BAHAMA — Why would any sane person be standing in front of an outdoor stage as Tropical Storm Hanna takes aim on their town? Two words: Chuck Berry. Add a third: Free! In order to celebrate another overpriced and unnecessary convention center in America, the city of Raleigh barricaded off the downtown area [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 07:54:35

What Not To Build

I get to play a government scientist on the internet. As a result, a large part of my work involves being exposed to new and interesting technologies, whether they are the latest military simulators, academic papers delivered at scientific conferences, or product proposals being promoted by aspiring developers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 19:18:00

Bailout Binge: Zombie Edition

You know, Keyser has been ruminating a bit recently about the implications of printing ungodly sums of money to bailout people and companies that made bad decisions in the past and would go into bankruptcy if they didn't get bailed ... , and the only problem is this "credit crunch." So give them a few hundred billion dollars (in return [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:22:00

Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get PEEK in your mailbox! ... , even offer some upfront credit to get the job done. (You can easily dump in hundreds of billions ... sort of no matter what, so once people do it they'll get a huge savings if they were in a bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:20:03

Yesterday's post argued that deflation might be the new normal for much of the economy – just as it has been the norm for high tech at least since Moore's law took effect. I also argued that deflation might not be as bad as many economists make ... ; and 2) monetary deflation is a bad thing. It's easy to tell whether a commodity's price has gone up or [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:32:06

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