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Inflation is to cart as COLA is to horse

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I suppose in some ways it might look like zero inflation is bad for you.  After all: Social Security checks don't go up. Marginal tax bracket cutoffs don't go up. The standard federal income tax deduction doesn't go up. Interest rates on savings accounts are in the basement. Etc., etc., etc. These bad things are all ...

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Pass on giving gift cards and give cash instead

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

In what seems to be an annual holiday event, Liz Pulliam Weston expresses her dislike of gift cards.  This year though, there's cause for her celebration, as one study predicts that consumers will purchase $4 billion less in gift cards this year than they did last year.  This is a ...

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