Wherever you look right now, there is bad news on the economy. Unemployment higher than for the last twenty years and more. Personal levels of debt almost unmanageable. Foreclosures crashing like waves on the suburbs and exurbs, washing away property values. The Federal Government going a trillion and more dollars into debt for the bailout [...]
Archive for July, 2009
The cost of insuring a key person varies significantly from hundreds to thousands a year. It depends on a number of variables including state of health and the responsibilities within the organization. Young and healthy people cost less to insure. Mature businesses depending on older members of staff will find the premiums significantly higher. The [...]
We’ve heard that black tea has been fermented during processing, and green hasn’t. But what is ‘white tea’? White tea is the uncured and unoxidized tea leaf. Like green, oolong and black tea, it comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. You would think that with that light, sweet flavor, white tea caffeine level would be [...]
The U.S. government recommends that adults eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, including two or more servings of fruits and three or more servings of vegetables. We all know that eating fresh fruits is very healthy. But are there any health benefits to eating dried fruits? Dried fruit is well [...]
At one time or another, we have all walked into a car rental office and met with one of the counter staff on a mission to hard sell insurance. It’s like a knee-jerk reaction. See customer, sell additional insurance. The most common add-on is called loss damage waiver (LDW) and that can seriously boost your [...]
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