Yesterday Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that the team had been sold to former Los Angeles Laker Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners for a record $2 billion. This is the largest price tag to ever be placed on a sports franchise. Some people are going to question whether or not this…
Last week was the first time that I had ever heard of the term “Pink Slime”. Now I am not sure if it is the term or what it actually is that made me a little uneasy at the thought that I might have ate it. For those of you who haven’t heard “Pink Slime”…
Planning for their financial future isn’t usually the top priority of people in their twenties, but it really should be. Making smart financial decisions in your twenties sets you up for financial success for decades after, and can drastically improve your ability to cover the larger purchases and costs many encounter later on in life….
The single greatest factor that can kill the American economy at this moment is the price of gasoline. If we don’t solve it and solve it fast, the country is headed for another recession. Consumer confidence, overall spending, and unemployment all hang on this one issue. The national average continues to rise, passing $3.80 a…
Every day thousands of individuals all over the world rent automobiles for both business and leisure. When we get in this car we feel that we have just rented a safe and reliable car. This can be far from the truth. In 2004 Raechel and Jacqueline Houck died in a car crash while driving a…
Tokyo has long been the most expensive city to live in based upon the Economist Intelligence Unit’s most recent world-wide cost-of-living survey. This year that has changed because Zurich, Switzerland is now number one. I can say from first hand experience that Zurich is an extremely expensive city to visit much less live. A few…