Cites Hurt and Helped by High Gas Costs

While you may only head out west for Vegas vacations, there may actually be a reason to move out that way. Why? All these areas have something that other areas do not. Wind and solar energy in more abundance than anywhere else.

The New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly and the rest of the establishment press have their answer: big cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco will win out. Our assessment is: not so fast. There's a lot about the unfolding energy economy that is more complex than commonly believed, and could have consequences that are somewhat unanticipated. Read more

Is Low Cost Health Insurance Even Worth It?

Once you have taken care of all the important things for your business like which espresso machines to buy, you may take a long hard look at your health coverage. Everyone wants to save money on medical expenses, but how many corners are too many to cut?

If you are looking for health coverage you will definitely want to read this article about choosing health care you can afford. I used to sell insurance and I know the game. The worse the insurance the better the salesman who is selling it. When it is really good you don't need to sell it. It sells itself. That was always what I wanted to have in my portfolio when I was a saleman. Things that I could stand behind. LAck of research is the #1 reason peopel get ripped off. The 2nd? Too afraid to ask questions. Do both before you buy and read articles like the one above to help you decide what you even need.

Gold Medal Millionaires

With the Olympics looming, it may be of some interest to see just how successful some former Olympians have become. Millionaire Olympians that is.

I really haven't eve r thought a whole lot about how successful financially some of the immensely popular Gold MEdal winners from past Olympic Games have become. They all just seemd like they weren't in sports that money followed, and that people just really didn't care a whole lot abou tit once the games were over. I know I never really did. Expecially these days as the Olympics aren't even something I bother to watch anymore. Even the major sports like Basketball, or Baseball.

I suppose it has a lot to do with these people being "amateurs", as well as people being busted for things like steroids, taking some sort of crazy diet pills, or some muscle building formula to compete.

Anyways, Take a look at some of the Gold Medal Millionaires and see what they have become. You'll recognize quite a few I'm sure.

40th Anniversary of the Cubicle

For those of us that work at home ont he computer I guess you could say we are in our own cubicle world, but we at least have a bit more privacy than we did when we sat in a room of boxes listening to 50 people on their phones as well as much lower system memory needs that we get all to ourselves :).

The movie Office Space is the best movie ever made about cubicle life in my opinion. From the male perspective that movie is right on target. It doesn't give the female perspective too much, but for the guys you have to at least chuckle at some of the things they do in that movie.

Anyways, as this is the 40th cubicle Anniversary there was a little article that I found pretty amusing covering the last 40 years of cubicle life. Check it out here and enjot.