Category: money & financial

Vincent Kosuga and His Onions A groovy little story from Today I Found Out about onion futures. I didn’t even know there were onion futures. Vincent Kosuga, an entrepreneur who turned 5,000 acres of unwanted land into 5,000 acres of onions made a killing in trading onion futures and he wasn’t Mr. Straight Arrow when […]

Top Secrets of Gold – Full Documentary According to this 44-minute documentary, Hitler went to war to get his hands on gold. Whistleblower, and precious metal trader, Andrew McGuire reveals manipulation of the price of gold and silver. Gold has always been a big deal and it still is. I think the message is: buy […]

A Pile Of Dirt and $9000 Produced This Dream House Correction: A Pile of Dirt and $9,000 Produced This Rather Small Dream House, although the price is reasonable. If the owner would have gotten a bank loan for, say, $90,000, well, imagine that after you look at the pictures. Or $900,000, say. If you’re dreaming […]

How to Save Money on Gas Think horse cart, bike, bikini on hitchhiker. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

What could be better than a free ebook about the 8 step process to achieve your big goals? How about a mind map for your wall? Both are FREE! TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Seth Godin on making your small business indispensable. This is a sort-of synopsis in less than 8 minutes of Seth Godin’s longer piece. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Seth Godin Medicine Ball Session. 54 minutes. I just discovered Seth Godin. Interesting stuff about entrepreneurship and the advantages for all of us now, and more, by a guy who knows a lot and shares it. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Open source replacements for really expensive applications. Save thousands! TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

How do stores get you to buy more stuff? Clue: It’s all in your senses. Read on and save money next time you go to your favorite big box store. Oooh, they’re sneaky! TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

If you’re lousy at arithmetic, also referred to as math, you’ll feel right at home here, and I suspect folks who think they’re math wizards will find that they aren’t so sharp either when they read this article, “The 11 Ways that Consumers are Hopeless at Math.” TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious