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Scarcity – The Good and the Bad

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

” Scarcity drives economics and business. In business and economics, if you have something in abundance that others consider scarce, you stand to move ahead and make a profit, but if your service or product is offered by a multitude of others you have to find other ways to get ahead. Why is scarcity bad?

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Should You Invest In A Rising Market?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We individual investors have all become market skittish since the recent huge recession and economic downturn. Anthony Mirhaydari from MSN Money in an article Bull market or prelude to a bust? In hindsight, we all would have sold out of the market at the end of 2006! Is The Bull Market About To Deflate?

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Frugal housing.

Finally Frugal

That comment made me think about all of the news articles written by supposed 'experts' who predicted that we had (or would) hit bottom in 2008, or 2009, or 2010, or even 2011! Way to protect your backside, economic experts!) It seems that those of us in the trenches (like my commenter) may have more insight than the experts!

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