Can You Buy Happiness?
Last week I found myself at the house of a friend in her early forties whose boyfriend had just dropped the bomb that he was in love with someone else...
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Textbook Downloads -- Green or Not?
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
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Four years' worth of college textbooks use the paper equivalent of yields from at least six 40-foot trees.
Why the Right's Messaging is Working
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
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Why is the young brilliant upstart Obama only ahead by single digits. At least part of the reason is this: John McCain knows how to control his message.
Gasoline Gift Cards: How Americans Invent Money
Viviana A. Zelizer | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
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A woman was arrested for accepting a $100 gas card from a man in exchange for sex. Gas cards are a tangible reminder of American inventiveness when it comes to money.
CNBC Documentary: "Rise Of The Super Rich" (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
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CNBC aired a documentary on the 'Super-rich' on 6/26/08. The documentary focused on the excesses of the super-rich, various psychological analyses of ...
Four Years Of Savings Can Set You Up For Life
WallStreetFighter | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
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For all you recent college graduates entering the workforce, I realize that "Start Thinking About Your Savings" might be the lamest piece of advice ut...
Money: What Do Rich People Do When They No Longer Have It?
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
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Without all that money and newly leased Mercedes, people did not know how to define themselves anymore. Unless, that is, they were actually real people inside them to begin with.
Cutting The Financial Cord
Christine Hassler | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living
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Dear Christine, I have a job and my own place, but I'm still pretty financially dependent on my parents. My mother especially makes sure that I get t...
The Case Against the Victory Garden
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living
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The home-garden micro-trend runs counter to the tidal wave of food outsourcing that's swept through grocery stores over the past 20 years.
Sex and the City Converts a Skeptic of the Show
Misa Dayson | Posted 06.02.2008 | Entertainment
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I could never accept that Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte represented the modern New York woman. But I still left Sex and the City: The Movie laughing and entertained.
It's Not All About Money, Mr. Trump
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living
American men are transforming from human beings into human doings, valued for the things they produce and not the people they are.
Becoming Ethical...Once the Money Is Made
Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
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On the one hand, I considered Scott McClellan's revelations better late than never, but then upon further consideration, I began to become angry. Yes,...
How Ikea Manipulated Me To Go Blue So They Can Be Green
Stacie Krajchir | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living
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No more free bags people! From now on, those clear Ikea bags will be 5 cents each. Which is already a pretty universal thing and we in the bright sparkly US of A are just the late to the ban-the-bag party.
Romney Poses Bigger Threat to Obama than McCain
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics
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McCain needs a vice president who can help right the tottering GOP ship. He has no choice but to implore Mitt Romney to sign on to the ticket.
How Not To Crack The Piggy Bank: 8 Ways To Save A Buck!
Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 05.15.2008 | Living
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Last week you might have spied me on Fox Business News blathering on about how to pinch pennies in these precarious economic times. However, I wasn't able to fully cover all the ways in which I'm trying to save money without dumpster diving.
Just like money in the bank
David Horton | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
When I was a young fellow a few decades ago (oh, all right, half a century plus) I greatly desired a model train. No money in a very poor family for s...
"Nobody Drops Out of a Presidential Race. They Just Run Out of Money": Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio
Robert Guttman | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
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It was refreshing to step back and listen to one of the up and coming new Democratic senators speak out on the issues of the day in an unaffected and low key manner.
Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor: A Hedge Fund Deal You Can't Pass Up!
Dan Solin | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business
Do I have a deal for you! You are going to party with the big boys: Pension plans. Normally, this investment is only available to them, but we are going to make an exception for you.
Donors To Clintons: We Gave At The Office
Russ Wellen | Posted 04.28.2008 | Home
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"Why can't they work the Internet like Obama? Are they too proud to take $25 donations?" "Sorry, Chelsea. Your email must have got caught in the Spam filter." "Any more pork, Hillary, and I'll puke."
Happiness, equity theory, and why we tend to think that we should get what we deserve -- and deserve what we get.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
One of the most interesting and complicated issues within the study of happiness is the relationship between money and happiness. Although some folks ...
The Day My Son Almost Died
Debra Condren | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living
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I make my living teaching women how to own their ambition in a society that has a double standard. It's our prevailing cultural paradigm: ambitious me...
On The Eve Of A Recession, Do You Know Where Your Money Is?
Pauline Millard | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business
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I woke up on April 11th and didn't find my $1,700 refund in my checking account. It seems that George, my new accountant, put the wrong bank routing number on the return, and my cash is currently sitting in limbo between the IRS and the Bank of America.
NY Women's Agenda Spotlights the Need for Equal Pay Legislation
Debra Condren | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
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The NY City Council is holding a hearing to review two resolutions in support of state and federal fair pay legislation.
I RESENT THAT
Debra Condren | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living
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As women, how can we deal with male co-workers who are, say, socially inept, professionally awkward, make inappropriate comments, but aren't harassing...
More Questions For Petraeus
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
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What would it take for America to tell Maliki that we aren't going to support the Iraqi Army in any military offensive?
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