Hollywood Video saw its end credits roll last year, but that apparently hasn't stopped a debt collection company from tracking down old late fees on behalf of its impaled zombie corpse.
Tim says he and others have received outrageously high-dollar invoices from a debt collection company. He writes:
The debt-ceiling D-Day -- the date when the United States reaches its statutory limit -- won't take place until at least April 5, according to new figures released Wednesday by the Treasury Department.
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner estimated last month that the ceiling would be reached between March 31 and May 16 if it were not...
A special issue of the journal Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science edited by the American sociologists David J. Harding, Michèle Lamont, and Mario L. Small examines the relations between culture and poverty. The authors return to “the culture of poverty,” a concept that became taboo in...
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — BP's compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims has issued a final settlement payment to just one of the thousands of people and businesses waiting for checks, records show, and that $10 million payout went to a company after the oil giant intervened on its behalf.
BP won't identify the business, citing...
MAKING MONEY: The most popular piece I've published in 40 years of writing these Letters was entitled, "Rich Man, Poor Man." I have had dozens of requests to run this piece again or for permission to reprint it for various business organizations.
Making money entails a lot more than predicting which...
