Uncommon Money News (Vol. 72)

By: Roshawn Watson

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!

This week, I participated in the Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #108 hosted by: The Skilled Investor. We have the following posts included in this carnival: Should You Buy A House Outright? and The Rich Get Poorer. Additionally, Should You Buy A House Outright? was also included in the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances hosted at How I Save Money. Last week, I participated in the Carnival of Financial Planning # 107 hosted by Intelligent Speculator and the Carnival of Financial Planning # 106 hosted by My Wealth Builder. The following posts were included in last week’s edition The Rich Get Poorer and Should You Buy A House Outright?

To my readers: I am so honored by your support. Thank you for reading, subscribing, and for voting for articles from this site on social bookmarketing sites such as stumbleupon, reddit, delicious, digg, propeller, twitter, and yahoo buzz. Together, we are telling thousands of the importance of financial literacy. I absolutely could not do it without you. You are vital this this site, and I appreciate your help so much! Thanks.

Business

Isn’t that special: 30,000 employees of Goldman Sachs to earn on average $700K. Thanks taxpayers!

Top Five Highest-Paid, Worst-Performing CEOs

Ten Big Companies That Are Veering Toward Bankruptcy

Colleges Find Creative Ways to Cut Back

Retailers Ready For Fight On Credit Card Fee

The World’s 10 Most Valuable Brands (Updated) view!

Cash4Gold Threatened Jail For Not Removing Negative Comments

2 banks change rules on overdraft fees (in a good way)

US Economy and Real Estate Money News

Bernie Madoffs Penthouse Hits the Market Steal at $9,900,000

Bernanke says recession is “very likely” over

Seniors racking up credit card debt

60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck

Entertainment Money News
Netflix awards $1M prize to improve movie picks

Uncommon Money News (Vol. 69)

By: Roshawn Watson

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!

Last week, I participated in the Carnival of Financial Planning #102 hosted by: The Skilled Investor Blog. If you remember, we hosted this same carnival edition #101. We have the following posts included in this carnival: The Rich Get Poorer, Outrageous Law Transfers Parents’ Debt To YOU, Colleges Pimping Their Students. Please look through the carnival if you would like to read plenty of other interesting posts in the blogosphere!

With your help this week, we made the front page of multiple social media with the post Have We Stopped Saving Already!!! Thanks for your help and also thanks for all the comments!!!!

Posts Of The Week
My Bad! Woman’s House Mistakenly Auctioned by Bank

Collection Agency Sends Four Letters to Collect a $.04 Debt

Business News
Pay Raises Are The Worst In 33 Years

Reuters Happy to Take Traffic the AP Doesn’t Want

Paypal adds new fees with no notice

Best paid CEO made over 702 mil last year

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Collection Agency Sends Four Letters to Collect a $.04 Debt

The Billionaire Universities

My Bad! Woman’s House Mistakenly Auctioned by Bank

Burger King Drive-Thru Workers Try To Cheat Timer System

Economy
Surprisingly strong jobs data signal turning point

Who Won the Recession?

The Recession Is Over: Now what we need is a new kind of recovery.

Entertainment Money News
Ben Stein fired by New York Times

Box Office winner for last weekend was

Trump fights court decision on his defamation suit

Offbeat Money News
Mich Church wins the lottery

Widow sells husband’s tomb above Marilyn Monroe

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Uncommon Money News (Vol. 67)

By: Roshawn Watson

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!

I would like to thank the Carnival of Financial Planning my post the Rich Get Poorer. It was hosted at the Living Almost Large.

To my readers: I am so honored by your support. Thank you for reading, subscribing, and for voting for articles from this site on social bookmarketing sites such as stumbleupon, reddit, delicious, digg, propeller, and yahoo buzz. Together, we are telling thousands of the importance of financial literacy. I absolutely could not do it without you. You are vital this this site, and I appreciate your help so much! Thanks.

Posts Of The Week

Debt reduction pushes Ford to $2.3B 2Q profit

Dow tops 9,000 as home sales rise for 3rd month

Data show housing market starting to recover

Nas Ordered To Pay $44K A Month Support For Newborn With Kelis

Business

Debt reduction pushes Ford to $2.3B 2Q profit (POW)

More women in senior management = profits

The rise in financial crime in America 1997-2008 graph by type of fraud

Facebook now using your profile image in online dating banner ads.

Krugman: Goldman Sachs’s …is very good at what it does. Unfortunately, what it does is bad for America.

LAX parking lot is home away from home for airline workers

Zappos and Amazon

Economy
Dow tops 9,000 as home sales rise for 3rd month (POW)

Data show housing market starting to recover (POW)

Government Tab for Crisis Could Hit $23.7 Trillion!

Michigan Unemployment Tops 15% (and That’s the Lower, Official Number)

Entertainment Money News
Jackson estate lawyers seek allowance for children

Nas Ordered To Pay $44K A Month Support For Newborn With Kelis (POW)

Uncommon Money News (Vol 57)

By: Roshawn Watson

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!

Posts Of The Week

http://www.hulu.com/embed/FF4EJp57xSkeFfS8AAQqcQ

Money for Nothing — there’s no longer any reason to believe that the wizards of Wall Street actually contribute anything positive to society, let alone enough to justify those humongous paychecks.

GM “likely” to build factories in China while closing U.S. factories. If so, bailout money from U.S taxpayers will be used for construction

Moviegoers are Obsessed with Beyonce

Business News
GM Offers US a Majority stake, sheds over 20K employees and axes Pontiac

UAW to get 55% stake in Chyrsler

Chrysler Succombs to Bankruptcy

Economy
GM “likely” to build factories in China while closing U.S. factories. If so, bailout money from U.S taxpayers will be used for construction

11% of housing units vacant
Entertainment Money News

Moviegoers are Obsessed with Beyonce

Simon Cowell Lives large as Musicians Lose tens of million in downturn

Rihanna wants her $1.4 Million in Jewelery back from cops

Offbeat Money News

This is what $400,000 looks like

Brothels cut prices to beat recession

Uncommon Money News (Vol 33)

By: Roshawn Watson

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!

Thank You: I am so honored by your support. Thank you for reading, subscribing, and for voting for articles from this site on social bookmarketing sites such as stumbleupon, reddit, delicious, digg, propeller, and yahoo buzz. Together, we are telling thousands of the importance of financial literacy. I absolutely could not do it without you. You are vital to this site, and I appreciate your help so much! Thanks.

Post of The Week (new)
The clarity with which Peter Schiff predicted our current economic situtation back in 2006 is impressive. Although there were many who sounded the alarms, none that I know of made such a compelling case as Peter Schiff. This video perfectly illustrates just how right he was.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoSwkCog-Ro]

Business

Many US Companies Pay No Corporate Income Tax

Bailout Unlikely to Crimp Executive Pay

Outrage Causes AIG To Cancel Second Luxury Retreat

Lehman Approved $100 million dollar payout to top executives three days before bankruptcy

Insightful commentary on US economy with a historical perspective:Insightful commentary on US economy with a historical perspective:The Crisis Goes From Bad To Worse

National Debt Clock Runs Out of Digits

Financial Markets

Dow Jumps 936 points in the Biggest Points Gain Ever

Dow Drops 733 points second Biggest Point Loss Ever

Entertainment Money News
Roger Ebert’s Review of IOUSA

Real Estate Money News
Illinois Sheriff Suspends Foreclosure Evictions of ‘Innocent’ Renters

One Third of Homeowners Upside Down (Owe More Than Homes are Worth)