From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Get Professional Services For Free By Bartering

by That One Caveman on October 20, 2008

Your work is valuable to others

Everyone has some sort of skill. Regardless of if you are a doctor, a lawyer, a bricklayer, or if you can just lift boxes, there is someone out there who needs access to your skills. In the corporate world, you trade access to these skills by the hour for a set amount of money. [...]

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Teach a Child, Save a Generation – Blog Action Day 2008

by That One Caveman on October 15, 2008

Poverty's Child

Across the world, children are suffering from the pains of a prison called poverty. Children are crying out in hunger and desperation because they happened to be born into an unfortunate situation.
On their own, they have no hope of escaping the cycle of poverty. They cannot get the nutrition they hunger for; they cannot get [...]

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It’s Great the Market Went Up, But Don’t Get Stupid

by That One Caveman on October 14, 2008

Yesterday, we set yet another record – a gain of over 11% on all major stock indexes. It was an exhilarating rise after a weeks-long drop, but this is just one blip on the larger graph. We have no way of knowing what will happen for the rest of this week or the [...]

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Friday Link Love – Considering Dropping Cable Edition

by That One Caveman on October 10, 2008

For the last 11 months, I have been enjoying a “reduced” rate on my cable since I called to complain about an unfair price increase. Soon, that promotional period will end and they will surely jack my prices up again. For the basic service I was receiving, plus internet, my new rate will [...]

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ING Direct Drops Savings Interest Rate to 2.75%; Still Better Than My Hometown Bank

by That One Caveman on October 9, 2008

Well, when all the other banks began discussing dropping their interest rates, I knew ING Direct would follow the trend before too long. Well, they finally did it today. Effective today, ING Direct’s Orange Savings Account now earns 2.75% APY (down from 3%) and the base rate for the Electric Orange Checking Account [...]

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My 401(k) Is Losing Money and I Don’t Care

by That One Caveman on October 8, 2008

I don’t check my 401(k) account very often; mostly, I check it to update my end-of-month personal balance sheet. But when the market is in such turmoil as it is right now, it’s hard to not check it at least once a day.
In the last few months, I’ve lost more than $3,000 but I [...]

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