October 2009
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Stories: Unfortunately, guilty as charged
In “Be a Better Investor,” from the latest issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Senior Editor Bob Frick takes a look at the emotional reasons that fueled the irrational behavior that led, in part, to the economic morass from which we’re still attempting to extract ourselves.
Describing the past few years as an emotional roller coaster rather than a financial one, Frick fingers stories as a key...
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Goodbye, Saturn
General Motors announced last week that talks with the Penske Automotive Group to purchase Saturn had broken down, and that as a result, the brand will be closed down next year.
This is not surprising news, considering the state of the auto industry and the economy.
Still, it’s sad news, at least to me. I drove a Saturn SL2 from 1994 to 2006, but more than that, for those 12 years, I was a...