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• How The Next Major Market Crash Is Coming and What It Means For Your Child
  When one man who essentially was out of work can make the entire world tremble on its knees wouldn't you want to know what he is saying and thinking. Every parent should know this information as they plan their child's education and future.
• Is Welfare The Solution To Poverty?
  There need to be a balance to the issue of welfare and poverty. The poor need to be taught to get out of poverty, rather than made to enjoy it.
• Home Mortgage Lenders Face Three Hundred Billion in Losses
  Merrill Lynch's $8.4 billion write-down on mortgage related securities was a surprise to most analysts. Unfortunately, I believe more losses are coming. By my calculation, the subprime mortgage meltdown could be a $300 billion problem for home mortgage lenders and holders of mortgage-related securities, almost twice the size of the savings and loan crisis that unfolded in the U.S. in the '80s and '90s.
• 12 Steps to Improve Gas Mileage
  Doing some or all of these will help get more mileage from your car. Learning to do these things your self will not only save on gas mileage but will save you money.
• Is The Federal Interest Rate Cut Enough to Stabilize Sub Prime Mortgage Woes?
  As the sub prime mortgage debacle continues to play out across the United States, the Federal Reserve has opted to cut interest rates by half a percentage point, from 5.25. This cut makes all loans relatively cheaper, thereby encouraging a pantheon of economic activity to increase, hopefully in the troubled housing market.
• Parents Helping Grown Up Children Pay Off Loans
  Millions of parents are helping their grown-up children pay off their debts, new figures reveal. In statistics released by MoneyExpert, some 40 per cent (7.5 million) of adults with grown-up children have given their offspring aid to either pay off completely.
• Unpredictable Economy Ahead
  An up or down option allows the trader to specify a trigger on both sides of the market, and win if either of those levels are breached. Unlike its one touch counterpart, in this situation you don't need to choose a direction
• Big Box Stores and Local Economics
  The Wal-Mart Phenomena is interesting. Wal-Mart today is the biggest supplier of goods to the American People, it is the biggest employer and could be said to be the distribution system for the Nation. No wonder all large corporations study its transportation and distribution models, Wal-Mart has won the game. Thanks in good part to a very wise man, who knew his business like the back of his hand.
• GDP -- What's in it for ME?
  Why is GDP so unequally distributed? Not that it should be equally divided up, but why is so skewed to the top? Why do we continue to accept the "trickle down" theory when we've had years without seeing any trickle? Why to avert a recession is money in the form of tax-cuts poured in at the top instead of directing more in the middle and the bottom?
• Young People 'Do Not Know How To Use Their Money'
  Young people leaving school and heading off to university or on a gap year often do not know the best way to make use of money. According to the Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg), something that can result in them having numerous debts from loans and credit cards in the future.
• Awards And Unfair Dismissal - What Is The Point?
  Oh the simplicity of AWA's; stripping-out those ridiculous award conditions for a common sense approach, beneficial to both parties. This article looks at the problems created by the Australian award system and argues for a return to Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA's).
• Economic Worries in Regional Areas Affect Small Business Japan
  In the United States, we know that when small and medium-size businesses proclaim that they are not going to expand their business, buy new equipment or hire more employees that the economy will take a hit. Consumer confidence is very important in any economy and business owner confidence is even more important. This is true in any industrialized nation whether it is the United States or Japan.
• Dollar Collapse
  Can the American dollar collapse to zero? With the current policies in place, it is headed that way.
• Several Issues in China's Logistics Industry
  China's logistics industry has now entered into a rapid growth period. Due to positive policy factors such as the national "11th Five-Year Plan" to develop the logistics industry, government support for key areas and weak links in service industries, and emerging industries, China's logistics industry has now entered into a rapid growth period.
• Stagflation - Why We Hate It And How To Survive
  Stagflation, a term that sends chills down the spine of economists and anyone who survived the 1970's appears to be back again. Rising prices for things like food and gas, a credit crunch that's causing home prices to fall increasing the size of the credit crunch daily, and wages failing to keep pace with inflation...this looks like Perfect Storm. Here's a quick overview of what is happening and some strategies that will help you survive.
• Understand How the U.S. Economy Works
  Do you understand how the U.S. economy works? Discover the 3 most important variables, the definition of Recession, and much more in simple language.
• The Lie Of American Capitalism
  We do not have capitalism here in the USA of 2007, not by a long shot, and we have not had it for a very long time. When laws are made restricting free markets and free trade within the country itself -- even restricting competitive materials (Hemp) to protect gasoline and pharmaceutical interests, that is about as far from capitalism as one can get. That is nothing more than a shackling of our economy by special Interests. We have been effectively hobbled.
• Shoppers Should 'Dig Around' To Find Fab Festive Presents
  Festive food is to be the most popular purchase this Christmas, according to a new set of figures. In research carried out by PayPal, just under three-quarters (71 per cent) of consumers are set to get a food-related item as a gift to give to someone.
• Can You Bear the Market - Business Basics 101
  How do you decide how much to charge for your product or service? Are you pricing your product too low and not being able to pay your bills? This article is a must read to help you sleep better at night and help you understand if you can bear the market.
• How to Increase Job Opportunities and Tax Revenues
  The news media would have you think the jobs we have lost to China, India and other countries are the result of lower cost labor. They tend to blame greedy capitalists on moving production off shore to save a few pennies on the production of products sold in our markets. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth.
• Warning, Currency Consolidation Ahead
  Wall Street advanced sharply last week as investors interpreted minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting, as an indication that the central bank is going to ke