Nathan and Ryan came home a little dejected. They had spent three hours working for Tom and they didn’t get paid for the work. Tom is our neighbor. He’s retired and does a lot of stuff around his house. The boys work for him from time to time and love it because Tom pays them $13/hour. But they have to earn it. When they come home from a day at Tom’s, they sleep well that night. Last month Tom…
Okay, this one’s too cute. John walked in from work this afternoon holding two teeny paper cups. And I mean teeny. The ones really young kids use after they’ve brushed their teeth. The ones that hold maybe two ounces of liquid. He held them up to me and said, “I stopped for orange juice.” We are big believers in kids getting a chance to exercise their entrepreneurial spirits. And it usually starts with the infamous lemonade stand, or in this…
While watching In Debt We Trust with Nathan and Ryan, I found out that those who pay off their credit cards each month are called deadbeats by the credit card industry. That makes me a deadbeat. Deadbeats rule! I’m not a big fan of the credit card industry. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Well the credit card companies did, and a lot of people are suffering. And although a tad bit behind…change is a comin’. Congress just passed new legislation. …
With absolute seriousness, Ryan glanced up from the kitchen table and wanted to know what ‘red ink’ they were talking about. After all, he said, he has only ever seen the morning paper covered in black ink. On his quest to find the comic section this morning Ryan stumbled across the title of an article on the front page, The Red Ink Flows, from which came his query. Even if he had read the words that followed…deficit could hit $21.3 billion… it…
Here’s the thing about the stock market. Rarely can it be timed. I may even go a step further and say that never can it be timed. But I’m not an expert. What I do know is that over time, the stock market seems to do pretty well. Statistics say that it averages a gain of about 11%…over time. There’s the key. Over time. And that’s exactly what we talked to Ryan about when he decided to plunk down about…