"cash-for-clunkers" Articles & Blogs:
How car insurance affects Cash for Clunkers
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The government’s Cash for Clunkers program is back on track and many Americans are heading to car dealers to swap their older cars for new ones. What many people may not realize is that to trade-in an older car, it has to have had car insurance for at l...[Read on] |
Cash For Clunkers - Is It Green or Green Backs?
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The term "Cash for Clunkers" might sound familiar to you - it's a hot topic in the news and across the automotive blogs right now. Details: Two bills are currently under consideration in the House and Senate, each of them offering their own set of pros a...[Read on] |
Car Allowance Rebate System - On and Off, and On Again!
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When the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) program was finally officially enacted last week, car shoppers swarmed automotive dealerships to take advantage of the $3500 or $4500 rebates offered when trading in their less-efficient clunkers for more fuel-...[Read on] |
Forget Tupperware: Gold Parties Offer Fast Cash
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Women are getting together to sell unwanted bling to pay household billsPost | Today 11:50 am
Need to pay off your credit card balance? The cable bill? An upcoming mortgage payment? Many women are cleaning out their jewelry boxes and turning discarded r...[Read on] |
CARS or Cash for Clunkers: A Personal Car-Buying Experience
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How could I resist? The government is going to buy my poor old van and I can get a new vehicle at a drastic savings. So the process begins. Because I have experience in the car business I thought this would be a snap. I checked on line to be sure...[Read on] |
US Government Fleet To Get A Little Greener
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More than 17,600 American-made, fuel-efficient cars and hybrids will soon be entering the government fleet, thanks to President Barack Obama. Putting his money (or more aptly, your money) where his mouth is, the president plans to use $285 million in Fed...[Read on] |
Oprah Charmed by Homeless Man
| • A homeless man in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District charmed Oprah into slipping him $100 cash through her limo window over the weekend. [NY Post] • General Motors reported its largest quarterly profit in 11 years at $2 billion, almost equal to its ...[Read on] |
Spare Change and a Big Lesson
| My favorite way to spend time is outside a coffee shop, with a delicious cappuccino, a good book, and some sunshine. This is my ideal me time, and the less interruptions, the better. In fact, I’m known to even put my Blackberry away, with the ringer t...[Read on] |
Bryan Burrough Reports that Disney Will Pay the Weinsteins a Settlement of Over $75 Million
| Photograph by Victor Demarchelier. Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough reports that, “after several months of negotiations, Disney quietly agreed to a settlement in which it will pay the Weinstein Company $32.5 million in cash, hand over it...[Read on] |
LIVE’S High Heel-a-thon
| The 2010 Regis and Kelly LIVE! High Heel-A-Thon is set to take place on Wednesday, September 22nd. The High Heel-A-Thon is a fun 150-yard dash in support of The Heart Truth®. Although this is simply a fun event in heels, a lot of serious athletes als...[Read on] |
Clinton: U.S. Seeking Two-State Solution for Israel, Palestine
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Secretary of state indirectly says Hamas shouldn’t expect to get any cash; shakes hands with Syrian official after years of no U.S.-Syria contactPost | Today 11:45 am
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Hillary Clinton entered Middle East politics with a splash Monday —...[Read on] |
Geithner's New Toxic Asset Plan Calls on Hedge Fund Help
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Geithner unveils plan to rid toxic assets from banks’ balance sheets, calls for private industry to share some riskCongress Taxing AIG Bonuses | Today 11:20 am
Yes, President Obama and others at the White House are angry over those big AIG bonuses...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Under Fire for Stimulus Rejection
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Alaskans are increasingly angry at their governor for refusing key components of the government’s stimulus packagePost | Today 9:35 am
Sarah Palin received an earful from constituents this weekend when dozens of Alaska voters gathered to protest t...[Read on] |
Saturday Reading: What if "The Expendables" Were Women
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From FlavorWire
The Expendables opens today, and if you didn’t know already, it’s an action movie that features a leather bag brimming with bundled cash, a helpless woman with an accent, and lots of bad-ass dudes dressed in black running around kill...[Read on] |
Maddow on Leno: Limbaugh 'Creepy' (Video)
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow takes late-night TV by storm, talks about AIG’s woes, horrible state of nation’s health-care system, and everyone’s favorite conservative talk-show hostPost | Today 10:00 am
Never one to veer away from contr...[Read on] |
Alexander McQueen (1969-2010)
| Backstage at an early Alexander McQueen show, 1993. Photograph by Michael Roberts. Isabella Blow was the first one to tell me about this ‘amazing new talent’ Alexander McQueen. “You absolutely have to do a huge story on him,” she s...[Read on] |
The Democratic WNBA - Women's Basketball and Politics
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When I write "Democratic" I'm not writing that the WNBA advocates an egalitarian political system characterized by equal participation and representation. Rather, I'm writing about the political party that WNBA ...[Read on] |
Ford says Happy Valentines' Day with a Car/Getaway Sweepstakes
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In a partnership with the upcoming movie "Valentine's Day" Ford is giving away a bunch of great prizes including a Ford Fiesta, an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles to see the movie premiere, and much more in a special Valentine's Day Movie Sweepst...[Read on] |
Tweens, teens, plastic and action sports
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Looking for a way to keep track of your finances and connect to favorite artists and athletes? MYplash (from Plastic Cash Int’l) is a teen branded prepaid caid that targets sports and music enthusiasts looking for something other than a Walmart-br...[Read on] |
Shaq vs. Serena Williams in tennis?
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ABC is set to air “Shaq Vs.,” a reality show pitting four times hoops champion Shaquille O’Neal against top athletes in their own sports.
O’Neal, who he’s scheduled to report for NBA training camp Sept. 15 as he joins the Cleveland Cavalie...[Read on] |
Connecticut and Minnesota swap draft picks, Trade Montgomery and Whalen
| The big news in the WNBA is that Connecticut and Minnesota have traded first-round draft picks. Previously, Minnesota had the #1 Draft Pick and Connecticut had the #2 overall pick.Trade:to Connecticut: Minnesota's first round draft pick (#1 overall&...[Read on] |
The hot new color for beauty? Green.
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Everyday women have to make choices regarding their appearance.
What jeans will make your legs look two feet longer? What shirt will hide that extra five pounds? What shoes will hurt your feet less? What kinds of beauty products should you use ...[Read on] |
8 Web Sites That Will Help You Survive the Recession
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Indeed - There are so many job classifieds web sites out there, who has the time to sift through all of them daily? Not only does Indeed let you search through popular job posting sites, it also offers free daily alerts based on your keyword and location...[Read on] |
September's Recycling Project: Printer Cartridges
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It's now September. How are your green goals for the year going? Yeah, me too.
So here's an idea. There are just four months left until the end of the year. I'm going to make a commitment to do one major recycling project every month:
September: G...[Read on] |
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