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21 ways to go green on a budget

Vanguard has a nice article within it’s Planning and Education section of its website that presents “21 ways to go green on a budget.”  Keeping with my prior “green” theme, I figured this would be an interesting and relevant bit of information to share with our readers. Most people think that “going green” has to [...]

Bank On North Carolina

The Bank On North Carolina program is a project of State Treasurer Janet Cowell and Banking Commissioner Joe Smith.  “Bank On North Carolina is a program designed to help families make better use of financial services to convert their wages into wealth.  With an initial focus on connecting qualified “unbanked” households – those without any [...]

Unworthy – StockShackThemeSong

Unworthy – StockShackThemeSong You put your ten grand in, You put your ten grand out, You put your ten grand in and you shake the trades about, You do the Shackie Pokie, And you earn your ten percent, That’s what the Shack’s a-bout! One more time… You put your ten grand in, You put your [...]

Commercial Real Estate Is NOT the Next “Shoe 2 Drop”

Shack-A-Stories – Unworthy Commercial Real Estate Is NOT the Next “Shoe 2 Drop” Will there be losses? Yes. Will reserves/provisions increase? Of course. But commercial real estate will not explode. And, neither will the institutions that own the commercial real estate. Consider two major contributing factors: 1) Modifications and 2) Corporate Earnings. 1. Modified Loans [...]

Green Living Guide of the Triangle

Our friends over at Be Green Be The Change have motivated us to learn more about eco-friendly living and sustainable business practices.  We do our fair share of recycling and limiting our usage of paper products, but we at this website have a lot more to learn about “Going Green.”  Please check out the Products [...]

Check out the “Forms” page!

As shown in our tag line, we like our readers to “Run Your Life Like a Business.”  There are some boring things in your day job such as “document templates” that you probably take for granted in your personal life, especially related to your financial life.  We believe that in order to be successful financially, [...]

The Impact of a Baby on your Budget

Having a baby and the subsequent parenthood that follows has to be one of the most amazing things to go through in one’s life.  There are many aspects of your life that having a baby will have an affect on.  This includes your personal finances, and specifically, your budget. Don’t worry, according to a default [...]

WeeklyStockShackers September 14, 2009

Shack-A-Sorry Apologies for the Lack-of-Shack this weekend. We forgot we were to be out of town this weekend and weren’t able to write. Living in a shack will do that to you. Please read the September 5, 2009 WeeklyStockShackers article to review our strategy. One adjustment to the strategy; our goal is for a 10% [...]