Even with the 30 year fixed rate mortgage dropping to 4.42% average, sellers are still struggling to move their houses, and new home sales have fallen to new lows.

• Graduates Job Market
• POTUS' Peter Pan Complex?
• One More Refinance
• Mark to Market?
• Fun With Statistics

• Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/16
• Net Worth Update - September 2007
• Is this a Good Time for Baby Boomers to Downsize?
• Easy Ways to Increase The Value of Your Home
• Residential Housing To Drop Another 25%

written by JOE \\ tags: housing, Real Estate

One bit of news out this week was that China is now the world’s second largest economy, ahead of Japan, and second to the US.

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• Even Though Oxygen is Flowing
• The Derivative Bomb?
• This Past Week
• Have We Hit Bottom?
• A Brilliant Cartoon Saturday

• How Your Lifestyle Choices Can Create Positive Change In The World.
• Toyota Working on Car Models for Older Drivers
• Positive Affirmations
• 07/09 - ETF Trading - XLU, SDP, SPY, SDS
• Sands Casinos In China And Japan

written by JOE \\ tags: china, economy

No, it’s not a typo. The 80′s band The Fixx had a hit song titled One Thing Leads to Another. Which is what occurred to me when I saw this cartoon. Now you know.

Joe

• The Dow Jones Rollercoaster
• An RSS promotion - Book Giveaway
• Happy July 4th!
• The Decade With No Name
• Crazy #$%* Tax Code

written by JOE \\ tags: budget, economy, recession

I don’t know if stories like this get national press or not, but I do know that my tax crush Kay Bell broke it on her blog Don’t Mess With Taxes. Her three-parter started with Sen John Kerry avoids “sails” tax, was updated a couple days later If Mass. asks, Kerry will pay yacht tax, and concluded with Kerry to pay “sails” tax on yacht.
Add Sen Kerry to the list of people I don’t get, right after Elliot Spitzer and Charlie Rangel.
Joe

• Obama vs McCain on Taxes
• Graduates Job Market
• Bush Tax Cuts Expiring Soon
• A Financial Goodbye
• On my Death, Please, Take a Breath

• Implementing PAYGO Rules For Personal Finances
• Introduction to the IRA
• How Much Do the Wealthy Really Pay in Taxes?
• Fair Tax:  The Pros and Cons
• Self Employment Tax

written by JOE \\ tags: John Kerry, yachtgate

The recession is supposed to be behind us. Yet, it doesn’t quite feel like we a re in a recovery just yet, does it? I remember stagflation, that odd mix of unemployment and inflation, this sure isn’t it. Whatever we are in, we need to get out. Soon.

Joe

• Hello Josie Taxpayer
• Crazy #$%* Tax Code
• The Matthew Shepard Act
• A Brilliant Cartoon Saturday
• A Toyota Congress

written by JOE \\ tags: economy, obamanomics, recovery

A good cartoon to share this week, non partisan, and something from my childhood. These two spies are from Mad Magazine and have been fighting it out since I was a young one. Some things don’t change, wonder what the spies found out.

Joe

• A New Year’s Resolution Roundup Part Two
• Introducing the iPad
• Graduates Job Market
• 401(k) when you change jobs
• An ETF lawsuit

• Review of The Program: The Brain-Smart Approach to the Healthiest You: The Life-Changing 12-Week Method
• How Your Tea Party Donations Are Spent
• Beginning Coin Collecting

written by JOE \\ tags: russian, spies