Today's Interesting Items
The Federal Reserve Bank raised rates to 3.0%. Will ING Direct, Emigrant Direct, and other high-yield internet savings banks follow?
Seven rules for negotiation. Here is some good advice for negotiating anything, such as raises, car prices, and hostages. I wish I had read this when I first accepted my current position at this company. I could have saved those hostages.
Be careful, you might end up getting married without any intention.
"There's no nationwide housing bubble," but perhaps prices will level off. It seems we've been beating this drum since I started this blog but house prices in my area keep going up. Pretty soon, I won't be able to pretend I can afford something.
Neville started a business -- well, a germination of a business contained in a website with no original content yet. (Whatever works to bring in the ad dollars, I guess! There's no reason not to do this sort of thing if you think of it, if it doesn't aggravate the actual authors.) Last night, I was listening to All Things Considered, and an idea struck me. I registered the domain name and worked on the site overnight. (I couldn't fall asleep, anyway.) Once I've programmed more functionality into the site (member logins, a weblog, message boards, etc.), I'll release it to the public. I don't know if the site will be a big money-making venture, but it should get a lot of visitors.
The Lazy Girl's Guide to Budgeting: Review your finances in a full-length mirror, cut back on the cash carbs, come up with a financial workout plan. Times and metaphors like these, I'm glad I'm not a woman.
Mark Cuban from Blog Maverick believes the country should sell its gold reserves in order to pay down national debt. This plan assumes that the amount of held gold reported actually exists in storage. Read
Big Media CEOs get paid to stay at home. Media companies will pay their chief officers big bucks on top of their salaries to keep second homes for business. The numbers in that article are staggering, but not unexpected. Read
This weekend, I arrived home from my California Vacation. It wasn't exactly a Griswold farce, but the week had its share of zany moments. Now I'm back to reality -- New Jersey -- and things aren't looking good: Read
According to a CNN story and a AAA report, New Jersey is the last state whose average price for a gallon of gasoline has surpassed $2.00. Still, New Jersey remains at the bottom of the list thanks to local refineries, ports and low taxes. Read
