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I recently learned about the Holmes and Rahe stress scale, a psychological scale that predicts how likely you are to get sick based on certain life events.* This scale, originally designed in the 1960’s, produced an aha! moment for me. Several… Read more

Maureen Dowd wrote a plagiarized passage a recent New York Times column. The passage, according to Gawker, came from Josh Marshall’s TPM blog. This is the excerpt from Marshall’s post: More and more the timeline is raising the question of… Read more

Cities around the nation are celebrating 2009 Bike to Work day this Friday, May 15. The League of American Bicyclists has more on Bike-to-Work Day, which is part of Bike-to-Work Week, which, you guessed it, occurs during Bike Month. The… Read more

25% of Chrysler dealerships and 42% of GM dealerships will close their doors by 2010. Peter Valdes-Dapena at CNN Money has more: Chrysler LLC will close down 789 dealerships, or roughly 25% of the current number, according to a plan filed in… Read more

Of all the ways to pay off your mortgage, this one has to count among the most difficult. From CNN: Postal authorities say a Michigan postal worker has admitted to stealing some $20,000 worth of first-class stamps since September and trying… Read more

Victoria Gotti, the Gambino family daughter best known for her reality TV series “Growing Up Gotti,” is facing foreclosure on her $3.2-million Long Island estate. From the New York Post: (JP Morgan Chase) has been given the go-ahead to… Read more

Coffee addicts, watch out–your addiction isn’t recession-proof. The Financial Times reports that lousy crops and high demand are causing a sharp price increase in the prices of coffee and sugar: “We are in a dangerous situation,” Andrea… Read more

Adam Hamilton proves inflation? People have been quivering at the feet of fabled Inflation Genie since at least 2007. So far, despite quantitative easing, a weak dollar, and last year’s commodities price spikes, he hasn’t burst out of his… Read more

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Happy April 15th! If you haven’t yet filed your taxes, there are several ways to file for an automatic 6-month extension. Don’t be late! Send in Form 4868, Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Individual Income Tax… Read more

GM is recalling 1,497,516 vehicles because of oil leaks that may cause engine fires. Reuters has more: General Motors Corp is recalling nearly 1.5 million Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Pontiac mid-sized cars due to a potential leak of… Read more

According to RealtyTrac, a whopping one in 54 homes received a foreclosure notice last year. That’s 3.1 million foreclosure filings. Scared yet? An ever-increasing pool of foreclosure rescue scammers are drooling at the prospect of capitalizing… Read more

Today is April 13, 2009. You know what that means–two days until the dreaded April 15. If you haven’t gotten your forms together yet, avoid stress by filing a tax extension, which gives you until October 15 to hand in your tax forms. It… Read more

Recession anxiety has become a fact of life. One American Psychological Association poll showed that 80% of surveyed Americans are significantly stressed by the economy. As a result, more people are seeing therapists, which, while beneficial, still… Read more