I see a lot of people referring to social security as "getting their money back that they paid into it" - Social Security has never been set up like that. The younger generation pays into it so the payments can be made to the retired folks that are receiving it. I am paying into it now so that they can receive their mo...more

I did not see where he was blaming the recession on the boomer generation, there are 42,000 things going on right now that are contributing to this quagmire of a "recovery". However, he did bring up an interesting concept. The makeup of a society does dictate certain things and if a large part of society is in the boom...more

Sears has been around since 1887. I think K 65 hit it right on the head when they said that Sears should add a Made in the USA department. Sometimes going back to ones roots is where you find your glory. Furthermore it was the Made in America motto that first made Walmart a hit, before they got to big for their britche...more

I read all these posts and all I can think of is "Who moved my Cheese??" People are strange when it comes to changes However Change is the only thing that is Certain in Life.

The stock market is very disjointed from main street right now and most of the large companies are selling internationally. As a small business owner , I know our business has picked up over the last three months but I am still not convinced it will last. (fingers crossed). I pay very little attention to the stock mark...more

Zynga generates quite a bit of revenue from selling (non tangible) points so that the purchaser can by (non-tangible) things for their farm or their mob or their clan. However, as jas060900 pointed out it is all non-tangible useless stuff that has no value , how it can be valued at 5.5 bil is beyond me.

Albertson's had done this before and I have enjoyed participating, my daughter is just starting out and it had given me a way of giving her dishes or pots and pans to help her out. Sometimes I have even used the stamps and donated whatever it was I received to someone who needed it. I remember the saving stamps as a ki...more

I completely agree with "under 25".  Whenever the government gets involved in anything, it becomes a mess.  When my daughter was looking at colleges some of the private schools were more than happy to try and get us to sign onto a huge loan.  I wouldn't do it.  Remove the cheap money and the costs will come down.

As a small business owner, I am seeing inflation begin to show itself in energy costs, steel and aluminum costs and unemployment insurance costs, tax increases ect.  After surviving for the last year and a half I do not have the float to swallow these increases and we have already had to increase our prices.  The Fed h...more