Just found this article from April 11th, 2006, talking about really expensive oil prices. What's funny is that in some of these worst case scenarios, we're ALREADY exceeding the projected price - and those scenarios haven't even come into play!

Oil Prices Article

How the government spends your taxes.

I've been holding onto this link for awhile. Food to chew on, anyway.

Try these 5 extreme tips to skimp your way to financial security.

Oooh - we're set to find out on Wednesday if the US economy grew or declined in the first quarter. Analysts think there was .2% growth. Warren Buffett thinks we're in a recession, although he admits it's not his expertise. We need 2 quarters in a row of decline to officially be in a recession.

I vote for growth. And pulling this out of nowhere, .4% growth. Stock market boom followed by quick decline the next day, while holding some of the gains.

And it'll rain in NYC on Friday, September 5th, 2008. (I have access to an amazing forecast machine.)

Here's a link to an article on finding missing money.

The current national debt is 9.5 trillion dollars. That means everyone would owe over $30,000 this year, on top of their taxes, to pay it off.

One funny article headline from Reuters a couple of years ago: "US Debt: At least it's not $1 zillion".

We have news that a report talking about the impending recession will soon be released.

Again.

Time is ripe for inflation. Commodity prices are on the rise. The efficiency gains of the past 15 years can only go so far to keep prices down...

My first impression is that $44 billion is a good deal for Microsoft. Even MySpace is worth a billion. But at least Yahoo has a search function.

I've been watching the market reports on the Dow Jones this week. So, naturally, I've been quite perplexed. Seriously, if market reports were written as if they were moods, the following would be the template: "My level of contentment was up today on news that my car got rear-ended but the damage was less than total. I also had chicken wings for dinner, but left my wallet at the restaurant by mistake."