Uncommon Money News (Vol. 78)


By: Roshawn Watson

Hopefully, you had a Happy Thanksgiving and didn’t break your budgets on Black Friday 🙂

Brand New Post Coming Friday Dec 3.

In preparing to write my posts, I often come across noteworthy and sometimes bizarre financial and business news. Below are links to some of these sites. Enjoy!

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Posts Of The Week

How This Kid Made $170 Million in Two Years

Judge Angry at Bank Cancels Couple’s $525G Mortgage

Business

Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1%, or $14 Million

Courts Raise Bar on Employers’ Reading Employee Email

Comcast Buys NBC From GE

Bank of America Out of TARP

GM CEO Henderson Resigns

How the geniuses running Harvard pissed away $1.8B in cash

BBC: We won’t charge for online news

How This Kid Made $170 Million in Two Years (POW)

Goldman Sachs bankers now arming themselves with guns to defend against angry peasants.

Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry

Does Gates Foundation Need $500 Million Complex?

Economy
1 In 4 U.S. Borrowers Have Negative Equity On Their Homes

Goodbye jobs, hello mom and dad

11 Things to Celebrate Money-Wise in 2009

Growing Gains – 6 Jobs With High-Rising Numbers

Judge Angry at Bank Cancels Couple’s $525G Mortgage (POW)

Entertainment Money News

The Economics of Jay Leno

Martha Stewart’s Prison Stay Cost Her $1 Billion

Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk Glove Sells for 420K

New Moon Eclipses Dark Night