I have been using Microsoft’s Money personal finance software for over 9 years. My 30MB data file has over 12 years of transactions listed, showing spending, profits, debts and general financial activity over the first years of my adult life.
I rely on Microsoft Money.
I have used Money on a series of Windows laptops I get [...]
Rising Australian interest rates ..
Unlike the United States and Britain, where interest rates have recently been lowered to stave off the credit crunch crisis, interest rates in Australia have been climbing in recent months in a bid to halt inflation.
.. results in unmanageable debt
The result is that hundreds of thousands of Australian households are [...]
Sometimes we wonder what it takes to get rich, but Davidson & Mogg suggest it’s not some big secret in avoiding being poor in the Western World. Just finish school, get a job, and keep the kids to a minimum.
The odds in favor of escaping poverty in the postwar United States were 200:1 for anyone [...]
I’ve have shelves and shelves of Wired Magazines - going back more than 10 years.
I stopped buying Wired only this year - I felt as though it had run it’s course.
Matthew Hurst writes:
Is the future of physical magazines to go out in an orgy of adverts (as the economics of the model force more [...]
The original source for the previous post.
[From All of Inflation’s Little Parts - The New York Times]
From Information Aesthetics: The average spending of the average american citizen.
Look at how much is spent on fast food.
an interactive infographic treemap representing how much the average American citizen spends on 84,000 products in about 200 categories, including fast food, car insurance, rent, electricity, garbage collection & so on. larger shapes make up [...]
[From who-has-the-oil-map.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024x620 pixels)]
As a long term user of Microsoft Money UK (I have over 12 years of data stored in there), I would really like to know if and when the 4 year old Microsoft Money 2005 Windows software will be updated.
Should I switch over to the US edition, by migrating all my data? Is there a [...]
Bill Bonner of the Daily Reckoning writes:
It is May Day in Europe. It is a holiday for almost everyone. But here at The Daily Reckoning ’s mobile headquarters, we keep reckoning day in and day out.
And what we reckon today is that two extraordinary things happened yesterday – related to one another and equally absurd.
Yesterday, [...]
One of the reasons for this blog is to find out how much things cost in cities around the world.
I’ll start with Wrigley’s Extra gum. These are the chiclets type. Here in Melbourne they cost AU$1.00 on a good day, sometimes up to AU$1.30.
I try not to pay more than $1, but it’s a matter [...]