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Unemployment claims and rate are both worrisome.

Do you ever wonder why unemployment claims go down while the unemployment rate stays about the same?  This might be part of the answer.  If you are unemployed and your benefits run out, claim numbers go down but since you are unemployed you stay in the unemployment rate.
On the bright side, we all have health [...]

Affinity and reward credit cards are going away!

Now that easy credit no longer exists and banks are still in trouble, we will start to see affinity credit cards disappear.  Than means American Express, Visa, and Mastercard store brand and rewards cards will be converted in the future or become pay a fee program.  If I were you, then I might start spending [...]

Sprint’s HTC Supersonic first 4G smartphone

The amazing things about gadgets are they keep getting better.  It seems like every week there is something better or faster.  Look at the new Sprint Supersonic  smartphone:
HTC and Sprint have spared nothing in this top-of-the-line device. It has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon (QSD8650) processor, a 4.3″ (800×480) capacitive touchscreen, an 8 megapixel dual [...]

Free pastries, ice cream, and annoying fire alarm tests. 03.23.2010

Today is another free day of pastries at Starbucks or ice cream at Ben & Jerrys.  Seems like a new trend to get people into their shops.  I am sure it works too.
They are doing fire and sprinkler testing today in my condo area.  So they have the annoying alarms going off all day long. [...]