Coin by Coin: Helping You Work Toward Financial Freedom One Step at a Time

John Gerzema gave an interesting TEDx talk on how customers are dealing with the current economy and how communications technology is making capitalism better.
Some of the highlights:

Spending is at its lowest in 63 years
More people are using debit cards than credit cards
Americans are holding onto their cars for longer than ever: 9.4 years
Library membership is [...]

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If you didn’t know already, babies are money-eating monsters. As discussed in the previous article, the cost of raising a single child from birth through high school is a quarter million dollars.
But that’s just the direct costs.
Let’s look not only at those direct costs, but also the opportunity cost of child rearing.
A United States [...]

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Would you pay $1,000 for something that you could get — of equal quality — for $1? If you use disposable batteries, that’s exactly what you’re doing.
The electricity you get from a disposable battery, according to Eric Giler, is thousands of times more expensive per kilowatt-hour than the electricity you get from the wall. [...]

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