Archive for the ‘Society and Money’ Category
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What Is Social Capital?
When I was at Prosper’s annual conference, there was a lot of buzz around the term “social capital.” I thought I was alone in wondering what it was. However, when I caught up with Wealth Boy, I found that he hadn’t heard the term used before. I’m going to go out on [...]
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Are Companies that Make Payday Loans Bad?
There’s a lot of negative talk in the personal space about pay day loans. In general this talk is justified as many people get trapped in loans with high interest rates. The rates are so high that sometimes people can only pay the interest on the loans. They can’t pay the principle [...]
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Are we Living Larger or Living Differently? (Part 2)
I hadn’t anticipated yesterday’s Are We Living Larger or Living Differently? turning into a two-parter, but there were some interesting comments including:
“Question is whether the living larger requires dual income — or dual income forces the living larger.” - MossySF
“With dual income families I might offer that a lot of these situations are out of [...] -
Are we Living Larger or Living Differently?
Free Money Finance wrote a couple of days ago that we appear to be living larger than we were in the 70s. The article focuses an MSN report and data from a survey by Pew Research.
Fact from the article: “At the start of the 1970s, only 31% of households had more than one car, [...]
