June, 2010
High credit card debt continues even with personal finance savvy rising
Americans are more educated about credit than they were before the recession started up; however, their knowledge about personal finance isn't resulting in better decisions about credit and lending. A survey will tell us that most Americans know the interest rates they are paying on their credit card and they know their credit rating. Even ...
Stupid-guy stereotypes is how Grown Ups makes money
If you're planning on going to the movies this weekend, then the "Grown Ups" review may just effect your choice. "Grown Ups" is a comedy that focuses on childhood friends getting together to re-connect. The "Grown Ups" reviews have been certainly mixed. Starring Adam Sandler, this $ 70 million movie hopes to pull in at ...
No cash in divorce case with the Elon Musk of Tesla, Space X and Iron Man
The high flying tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk, is broke. But is he? Musk, the man behind such cutting edge companies as PayPal, Tesla Motors and Space X, said he was out of cash and living on personal cash loan when his wife filed for divorce. After he ran off with an actress and left her ...
GOP apology given to Tony Hayward for White House shakedown
Tony Hayward opened his testimony in Congress Thursday by apologizing on behalf of BP for the disaster that is the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010. But he was upstaged by another apology from a Republican for the White House "shakedown" of BP for a $20 billion dollar fund to cover damages from ...
BP says the oil spill cleanup is hurt by a lack of big spills
Lately, NBC reporter Tom Costello interviewed Doug Suttles , who is the BP Exploration and Production Chief Operating Officer, on the "Today" show regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill within the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, he asked Suttles for what his response was to the rapidly circulating info that oil spill cleanup technology is woefully ...