click for bigger image From Poppy Hey! You kids at Poppy! You don’t understand what you have here, so let me bring you up to speed: Nobody cares that this machine is “carefully handcrafted in San Francisco” or that it automatically reorders coffee filters. It’s simply a gorgeous looking, single cup brewing fully automatic…Read More
Submitted by Dmitry Orlov via Club Orlov blog,
The story is the same every time: some nation, due to a confluence of lucky circumstances, becomes powerful—much more powerful than the rest—and, for a time, is dominant. But the lucky circumst…
Bad news isn’t even good news anymore in Japan. A sushi-boat-load of data this evening show once again that Abenomics is failing dismally. In no particular order… Large Manufacturing Index MISS (lowest in 9 months), Large Manufacturing Outlook BIG MI…
Demand for office space in American suburbs, which for years has lagged behind their urban cores, is showing signs of a rebound. That is sparking development.
For the majority of Americans who don’t think they qualify for Pell Grants, the federal grant for low-income students, it’s easy for them to think that financial aid beyond student loans won’t happen for them. But that’s just not the case. Here are few…
By now everyone, any by everyone we mean even that pillar of orthodox “economic wisdom” , McKinsey, has realized that the reason the world is blanketed in a period of secular stagnation and soon, contraction, is simple: an unprecedented, record amount …
U.S. equities are still in a trading range and waiting for their next major catalyst.
I’m still on the road but I wanted to update you now that the first quarter of 2015 is officially over. For the first three […]
If you don’t want to borrow money to pay for your kid’s or your own college education, college tuition payment plans may be the way to go. You can pay off tuition over the course of the semester or the year. However, there are a few things you’ll have …
For parents of college-bound children, Roth IRA conversions need to be timed wisely to maximize the Roth conversion for retirement and college aid eligibility to help pay for their children’s college costs. Converting a regular IRA to a Roth IRA create…
There’s no better way to pay for next year’s tuition than using this year’s tax credit and deductions. How much can you get back form your taxes to pay for next year’s tuition? Let’s add it up.
Submitted by Luke Eastwood
Burning Down The House: Land, Water & Food
I’m sure when Talking Heads wrote "Burning Down The House" that they didn’t exactly have financial collapse and environmental degradation in mind. Although …
How long can this last?
Chart: Bloomberg
h/t Brad Wishak
College aid formulas expect parents to contribute up to 47% of their after-tax income to college costs each year. Will your income throw your child out of the running for college aid? Use my EFC Quick Reference Table to estimate your aid eligibility. D…
Between protracted violence in Iraq, the bloody civil war in Syria, continued instability in Libya, and most recently, the collapse of the Yemeni government and subsequent Saudi-led military incursion, one might be able to make a compelling case for th…
Students protesting their student loan repayment options may have something, at least when it comes to private student loans. If they go into default, they have less recourse against them.
If you have saved for college and retirement in all the wrong places, your income spikes, you get bad advice or make mistakes on the college aid forms, there’s a good chance you could blow your child’s chances of receiving college financial aid and hav…
Submitted by Bill Bonner via Acting-Man blog,
Victims of Demography
The key feature of age is that it happens no matter what you think. What does this mean? It means the “old countries” – their assets and their institutions, at least …
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