Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Thursday, March 05, 2009

a wonderful link to great financial listening

Subscribers to the economist can listen to word for word reading of the entire magazine. I find it better than NPR's marketplace, however, the link to the consolidated articles was always hard to find.

So, I'm sharing it with you here:

http://talkingissues.economist.com/.

It's free if you're a subscriber.

Regards,
makingourway

Friday, March 14, 2008

when earning $1000/hr isn't enough to make rent

I was quickly browsing through the news and found an interesting article regarding Spitzer debacle. According to Reuters, Ms. Dupre, Spitzer's rent-a-girlfriend, was concerned that she could not afford her monthly lease payment now that her employer was shut down.

It's a very odd consideration.

How much of the $1000 did she get to keep? How many hours did she work every week?

Even a modest number of hours - say five - would be an income of $125,000 if she kept only 50%.

Is this another example of high income earners not keeping emergency funds?

Regards,
makingourway