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Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“L’Argent” (1983, Robert Bresson)
A teenage boy in Paris passes off a counterfeit bill to make some extra money, and we follow the repercussions, eventually leading to a man’s incarceration, and a family’s murder. Robert Bresson, cinematic genius and Jansenist Catholic, delivers […]

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Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“Wages of Fear” (1952, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Yves Montand is a drifter who’s come to a dreary oil town in Venezuela with hopes of striking it rich. He and his friends spend most of their time in a dingy town bar drinking and […]

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It searches mp3s posted to blogs, and you can download them for free.
http://skreemr.com/
Thanks Carl

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How many recessions have you lived through? You’ll live through this one too! The recession of the 2001-2002-2003 era sucked, but not as bad as the recession in 1992. I don’t remember the recession of the late eighties and wasn’t even in utero during seventies-era hyperinflation, but I know my parents weren’t fond of those […]

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A couple of years or so ago, I realized that if I wanted to keep my business small and my clients cool, I was going to have to learn how to make more from less, savingswise. So I bought a couple books and learned enough to be conversant in the ways of Wall Street. Now […]

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Tip #3: Don’t have kids.
Kids cost money. According to common knowledge, they cost upwards of $17,000 a year. Do you have a spare nearly 20 grand lying around? Perhaps you’d like to spend it on Legos and child-size skateboards that linger, unused, in the garage. In place of the car you had to sell. Or […]

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Tip #2: Make Your Own Coffee
I started doing this a long time ago for multiple reasons:
1. I find most coffee isn’t strong or tasty enough
2. I am too lazy to leave my office or apartment.
3. A cup of coffee is usually about $2. A week’s worth of delicious home brewed coffee costs about […]

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This just in from Lisa Paclet: 1 EURO = 1,6 DOLLARS
More on this situation as it develops.

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