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Another Reason to Watch Your Weight: Lower Gas Consumption

Researchers at Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University have calculated that if every adult in the United States lost fifteen pounds, the savings to the economy in gasoline alone would amount to three billion dollars over the next year.
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Tags: fitness, personal finance, rambling thoughts, save money, weight loss

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TurboTax Already?

OK, so I verified that TurboTax desktop software is indeed already available with TurboTax Online following close behind with an expected release date of December 3. I also verified that Intuit isn’t handing out review copies for a few more weeks. Wonder why they wouldn’t want reviews to hit the ‘net yet? [...]

Quicken Free Trial….Never Mind

I reported back on July 22 that Quicken had a free trial. I guess they changed their mind because the free trial link goes to the Quicken home page with no other link to a free trial that I can see. Bummer…wonder why they took the trial link down? Maybe because Quicken [...]

Wow, Cramer is torqued off…

Need I say more? I think not. My guy needs a vacation. I need to go turn on the DVR and catch Mad Money to find out if Cramer addresses the heat of his frustration in this exchange. Cramer flips out on MSNBC

Tags: stock trading

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Good News for a Couple of my Stocks

I bought EMC last week after Jim Cramer mentioned last week on Mad Money that EMC was spinning off 10% of VMWare, which Intel will be investing in. VMWare is an awesome virtualization product so this partial spin off is exciting stuff. I did some research and found that EMC has some decent [...]

Adding Broke-Ass Student to my Blogroll

I’m adding the Broke-Ass Student blog to my blogroll. Once being a very broke-ass student myself, I sure have empathy for the writer but better yet, I have respect for her intelligence with handling finances.

Tags: blogging, personal finance

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