By now, most of you shoppers who were out and about yesterday morning should have recovered the lost sleep after coming home with bags of new stuff and a higher credit card balance. Contrary to popular beliefs, Black Friday was never a day dedicated to helping consumers save money – it is a custom promoted [...]

All this news of QE2 (second phase of quantitative easing) from the Federal Reserve has been saturating the media – and it rightly deserves that spotlight. It is yet another desperate move to resuscitate the troubling economy. And, the intended outcome is inflation. For a long time, we have talked about how inflation eats away [...]

Is a happy tenant more important or is a happy landlord more important? Well, your answer probably depends on whether you rent your home or own your home. But, most would agree that a great tenant-landlord relationship is mutually beneficial while a bad one could mean hell. Although I do not yet own my own [...]

In the city, it is not a rare sight to have a line of people waiting to use the ATMs. Many of us accept it as the consequence of living in highly populated area. I am usually the orderly fellow to patiently stand in line just like everyone else. But, it does drive me nuts [...]