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…
One of the primary goals of One Smart Dollar is to help every reader to build their net worth. But net worth grows much slower when money is spent unnecessarily. One way to slow the money going out is to make sure you are saving as much on your utility bills as possible. It is…
There comes a point in everyone’s life where they will stop working. For most people it will be at the end of their career, when they are simply too tired to keep up with the daily grind. Retirement is something for which a worker should actively plan. Since social security was only designed to cover…
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…
It is the first part of February so that means it is time for myself and most people to start working on their taxes. Although I tend to find myself procrastinating on a lot of things throughout the year my taxes are not one of them. Before you begin doing all of the work whether…