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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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Frugal housing.

Finally Frugal

Way to protect your backside, economic experts!) Meanwhile, Standard & Poor's indicated that 2010 would be the year housing values stopped their downward slide, though they were nice enough to tell us that we might not see values at 2006 levels until 2020! None of which has amounted to a hill of beans, apparently.

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The Peach Tree Battle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

History In 2006 I planted fruit trees, in anticipation of retiring and having time to pick and use the harvest. Planting Fruit Trees Was a Bad Economic Decision We spent $95 for the trees. We are losing the battle of the peach tree. Will my tree investment ever pay off? They tried human pee, rat poison, bebe guns and coon dogs.

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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. In hindsight, we all would have sold out of the market at the end of 2006! I’d rather buy stocks at a lower price and sell them at a higher one if I can. Hindsight is easy, but foresight is not.

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Reviewing The World’s Landfills – A Future Fictional Business Plan Excerpt

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In the early 21 st century, increasing world population, growing use of non-decomposable plastics, the westernization of the Asian continent and several world economic crisis cycles all contributed to increasing numbers of landfill operations throughout the world – mostly containing petroleum based plastic products. ArchTrashOlogists, Inc.