Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 24, 2012

On March 28, 2012 the Senate passed Resolution 409 that officially recognized April as National Financial Literacy Month. Well according to the bill’s sponsors, in the resolution presented to and passed by the 112 th Congress this March, we have a lot of issues to solve. Why do we need it?

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United States Personal Finance Economical Finance 202

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 11, 2020

A layoff or a drop of business happened in the past, but a global economic shut down from a deadly virus? How I’m managing our family budget during the Pandemic: We pay ourselves at the beginning of each month, so when this crisis started in mid-March, we were covered for the month. Folks did we just enter the twilight zone?!

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Budgeting Budget Family Debt 246

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 10, 2017

’ While there is some macro economic sense in consumer spending causing an impact on the country’s growth, it doesn’t necessarily play well at the individual consumer finance level. billion in March. billion in March – according to that same report. billion in April, compared with $809.4

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Spendthrift Economical Consumer Recession 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 30, 2013

Ever since we stumbled past the Fiscal Cliff and the budget crisis, the stock market has been rising like a hot air balloon in an updraft (at least as of the time this post was written at the end of March 2013). We individual investors have all become market skittish since the recent huge recession and economic downturn. No one knows.

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Economy Money Recession Real Estate 187