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Gen Xers, millennials and low income have the most money stress
by
Indiana Jones
on 5 Feb 2015
13 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://time.com/money/3695478/ "Feeling anxious about money? You’re not alone. A new survey shows most Americans are at least somewhat stressed out by financial concerns. Moreover, low-income households are increasingly more ...
The Winner in the Generational Financial War goes to the....Boomers!
by
Indiana Jones
on 27 Jan 2015
47 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.oftwominds.com/blog " The Federal Reserve Has Declared the Winner in the Generational Financial War (January 26, 2015) "The policy of safeguarding Boomer benefits with asset bubbles will lead to ...
Real Estate Trends To Expect in 2015
by
Indiana Jones
on 10 Dec 2014
Posted 10 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/real-est As housing recovers, prices in many markets across the U.S. have shot up. In fact, RealtyTrac reported that the median sale price of U.S. single-family homes and condos ...
Uber Exec Threatens to "Dig Dirt" and Expose Personal Info on Female Journalis
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Indiana Jones
on 19 Nov 2014
8 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmi A senior executive at Uber suggested that the company should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on its critics in the media — ...
Only Silents and Boomers Benefit From Housing Bubble
by
Indiana Jones
on 18 Nov 2014
9 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.oftwominds.com/blog From the article: "The only winners in the housing bubble are those who bought in 1998 or earlier. The extraordinary gains reaped since the late 1990s have not ...
Sandy Hook Parents Again -- Tears or No Tears?
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Indiana Jones
on 14 Nov 2014
1 comment, latest
10 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/parents- Connecticut (Reuters) - Parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut said on Friday that state officials had failed to provide ...
Saving for a downpayment could take until 2027
by
Indiana Jones
on 12 Nov 2014
10 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money Stagnant wages and rising property prices dont bode well for first-time buyers who dont have equity or wealthy parents to help them out. It takes an average of ...
Silent Generation Wins Life lottery
by
Indiana Jones
on 12 Nov 2014
4 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money When he and his wife married in 1959, they lived in Texas and saved 10 percent of every paycheck. Thanks to well-timed equity and property investments, the 81-year-old ...
Generation X- The Recession's Lost Generation of Homeowners
by
Indiana Jones
on 30 Oct 2014
30 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.trulia.com/trends/2 Worry Instead About Middle-Aged Homeownership "Here’s the surprise: it’s the middle-aged, not millennials, whose homeownership rate today looks lower than before the bubble. Using the same demographic-baseline analysis, ...
Downside of low US mortgage rates? Less selling
by
Indiana Jones
on 12 Jul 2014
1 comment, latest
10 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/downside ..."What economists call "rate lock-in" is one of several reasons so few houses are for sale. Another factor is that almost 40 percent of homeowners still don't have ...
Live-In Nanny Refuses To Work or Move Out
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Indiana Jones
on 27 Jun 2014
26 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://abcnews.go.com/US/famil Marcella and Ralph Bracamonte of Upland, California, say they hired Stretton, 64, as a live-in nanny on March 4 to help with their three children, ages 11, 4, ...
Gen X And Gen Y: The Boomers Stole your Wealth
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Indiana Jones
on 22 Jun 2014
38 comments, latest
11 years ago
"That’s right, the Boomers, in allegiance with the financial elite, engineered a transfer of all other generations’ income to themselves. This, plus being born in an expanding demographic, was ...
Here it is: Santa Barbara shooting a hoax
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Indiana Jones
on 30 May 2014
15 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://radio.com/2014/05/28/80 "Exene Cervenka, singer for ’80s punk icons X, just upset a whole mess of people this afternoon (May 28) with a series of tweets aimed at exposing last ...
Pediatricians giving toddlers amphetamines for ADHD
by
Indiana Jones
on 17 May 2014
7 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05 "ATLANTA — More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder outside established pediatric guidelines, according to data presented ...
Teen killed by cop did not have a gun
by
Indiana Jones
on 13 May 2014
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/ar Oscar Herrera, the Dublin teenager who was fatally shot by a police officer Sunday, had been subdued with a Taser and arrested a day earlier in Livermore after ...
What's wrong with housing?
by
Indiana Jones
on 1 May 2014
5 comments, latest
11 years ago
https://homes.yahoo.com/news/w The weather is warming up, home prices are still strong, and more listings are coming onto the market. This should all be the perfect combination for a robust ...
Can We Have A Moneyless Society? Alternative Possibilities
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Indiana Jones
on 26 Apr 2014
11 comments, latest
11 years ago
Money is Time Time is Money Money and Time are Control Who really controls your time? Who really controls your money? Ideas to ponder: Do you really want to ...
The Alienation of Work
by
Indiana Jones
on 18 Apr 2014
60 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.oftwominds.com/blog "In Marx’s view, workers were alienated from the product of their work because they did not own the product or control the means of production. Marx argued that ...
97% Owned - Economic Truth Documentary
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Indiana Jones
on 2 Apr 2014
14 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X This is a bit long, but if you get through it I have a few questions for the financially savvy PatNet community- how accurate is this documentary about ...
Here's Why Gen X Has The Most To Worry About
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Indiana Jones
on 5 Mar 2014
41 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ In the battle of the generations, who's the biggest loser? If you go by numbers alone, Millennials may come first to mind. They have the worst unemployment rate, ...
Gen X: The Ignored Generation?
by
Indiana Jones
on 4 Mar 2014
15 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/M http://content.time.com/time/a This is from 2008, but still very relevant.
Visionary Architect - Build for Resiliency
by
Indiana Jones
on 25 Feb 2014
Posted 11 years ago
“In my 25 years in architecture I have never seen it so intellectually bankrupt. The whole architectural profession seems to have given up its morale and its visionary role ...
Raiderettes paid less than $5 hour - suing Raiders
by
Indiana Jones
on 27 Jan 2014
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/ Here are the base salaries for the Raiders players (the men). The lowest income is 405k. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/t
How do you buy a home when there are no homes to buy?
by
Indiana Jones
on 21 Jan 2014
8 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.marinij.com/marinne JOSH MORGAN and Tony Sananikone of Piedmont have been trying to buy a home in Marin for nearly a year, making offers on properties from Corte Madera to ...
Age of Silicon coming to end in 10 yrs...what's it mean for BA real estate?
by
Indiana Jones
on 13 Dec 2013
6 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://bigthink.com/videos/twe Michio Kaku: Years ago, we physicists predicted the end of Moore’s Law that says a computer power doubles every 18 months. But we also, on the other hand, ...
What It's Like to Be a Young Millionaire
by
Indiana Jones
on 20 Sep 2013
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.quora.com/What-does At age 22, nothing fazes you, not even making a million dollars. Making millions quickly becomes normal, and you realize you've achieved nothing relative to the tremendous riches ...
No Bubble in Marin or Bay Area
by
Indiana Jones
on 30 Jul 2013
Posted 11 years ago
Is it true? http://www.marinij.com/marinre "As bidding wars rage, investors snap up houses and prices jump 27 percent over those of last June, some worry a new real estate bubble ...
Manifesto of LAPD Hunter
by
Indiana Jones
on 9 Feb 2013
8 comments, latest
12 years ago
LAPD: Karma is a B*tch! http://documents.latimes.com/c
Outsource Your Job!
by
Indiana Jones
on 16 Jan 2013
11 comments, latest
12 years ago
Brilliant and courageous! If corporations do it, why shouldn't we? http://thenextweb.com/shareabl No, this is not the Onion, it’s not April Fools, and I’m not making this up. All of ...
Why In The World Are They Spraying?
by
Indiana Jones
on 13 Nov 2012
7 comments, latest
12 years ago
This is a must see documentary. These are scientist speaking up, not some new age quacks. Please look up at our skies and see for yourself what is happening. ...
Even Egg Donors Need A College Degree
by
Indiana Jones
on 31 Jul 2012
4 comments, latest
12 years ago
This is from a Craigslist Ad dated 7/31/2012 - Becoming an Egg Donor or Surrogate is a great way to help loving couples and singles create their families while ...
Gen X Disproportionally Affected by the Recession
by
Indiana Jones
on 21 Jun 2012
Posted 13 years ago
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/ And yet I read endlessly about the Boomers and their travails.
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