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I have been seeing a lot of ads about the national debt from a website called DefeatTheDebt.com. I decided to do a little research to find information about DefeatTheDebt.com.

The site and ads are run by a corporate public relations company headed by Rick Berman. This public relations company takes money from corporations to start front groups, websites, and ad campaigns to influence the public.

For example, the food and beverage industry gives money to Rick Berman who then creates a "consumer… Continue

There is a big difference between economic reality and economic perception.

The biggest example of this is how many people think they should buy stocks when the stock market is going really well and that they should sell their stocks after the market has crashed. The economic reality is that you should buy stocks when they are cheap and in trouble while selling stocks when they are doing very well.

Another example occuring right now is that a majority of Americans tell pollsters that the econo… Continue

I was watching Jay Leno last night and he joined a bunch of other idiots who make fun of the stimulus package by taking the billions spent by the millions of jobs created or saved. The joke becomes that at a couple hundred thousand per job, we could have just given the money to people. People then clap or agree that the stimulus plan was wasteful or unsuccessful even though they are being misled.

The truth is that not all of the stimulus money went to job creation. A lot of the stimulus money w… Continue

Please help many of us support Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Write or call your elected officials and sens a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.

Elizabeth Warren has been an advocate for consumers for a long time. She has written many books, taught many classes and served in many positions with the main goal of protecting consumers against the shady practices fo the financial industry.

With Elizabeth Warren in the position, we will get easier… Continue

Why do you go to work each day? Are you doing something you love and want to be doing or are you going to work each day to earn a necessary paycheck?

A few lucky people get to do both. They get to do what they love while also making enough money to pay for the things they need and want in life.

For the rest of us, we often have to make some very difficult decisions. Usually, if we do what we want to do, we make little or no money. This is easier to do when we are young, but once a mortgage, ch… Continue