This evening the U.S. Senate voted to approve the bill adding $2 Billion in additional funding for the CARS ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program. President Obama is expected to sign the bill, identical to the bill that passed the House last week, into law soon.
This funding gives consumers and car dealers more time to satisfy the [...]
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that the government was giving tax incentives to people who bought big, high end SUVs like the Cadillac Escalade. With gas prices significantly higher in the last year, a weak economy, and the auto industry in a major slump, the pendulum has swung the other way. In June, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )For those of you who are on the road, or on your cell phone all the time, here is some great info. Fees for directory assistance calls (including ones made from cellphones), are on the increase. Sprint increased its 411 fee from $1.49 to $1.79. Last fall, Verizon and Cingular boosted fees to $1.49 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Welcome to the new “normal” where keeping up with the Joneses is so last millennium and living within your means is the new cool.
The extended shopping spree that Americans enjoyed for the better part of two decades has come to a screeching halt, thanks to the recession, high energy prices and a [...]
The Washington Post reported in a June 26 article “The Bite of Bank Fees” that “customers are paying more to maintain a checking account and withdraw cash from an out-of-system ATM, and when they bounce a check. To make up for declining revenue, many banks are boosting fees and are requiring higher minimum [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I joined Freecycle in my local community a few years ago when I first read about in it the Parade magazine that comes with the weekend newspaper.
Freecycle.org is a “globally local” online network helping millions of people to recycle and keep stuff out of landfills. This nonprofit gifting movement enables individuals to gift items [...]
msnbc.com news services just published a report, “Americans saving more, spending modestly“. Some highlights from the article said that:
“Household savings rates are at the highest level in more than 15 years in May.” The savings rate, which was almost zero in early 2008, rose to 6.9 percent, the highest level since December 1993. “The higher [...]
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