Category Archives: Finances

Financial Calamity

Our finan­cial sys­tem is hor­ri­bly bro­ken, serv­ing only the well-connected and well-monied inter­ests of Wall Street. We, the Amer­i­can Tax­payer, gave bil­lions of our dol­lars to save peo­ple who made stu­pid bets on gam­bles designed to make them mil­lions and mil­lions of dol­lars. We haven’t flinched yet but if the repub­lic has a chance of …

January 12, 2010 – 8:58 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Finances | Tagged , , | Comments (9)

Mint.com Props

I don’t think I’ve ever men­tioned it here at the Exper­i­ment but one of the most fan­tas­tic pieces of soft­ware I use reg­u­larly is Mint. Mint tracks your finances, spend­ing and invest­ments and it does it extremely well, far bet­ter than Money or Quicken. There is very lit­tle for you to do other than ver­ify …

January 30, 2009 – 8:50 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Finances | Tagged , | Comments (0)