finance

Our culture tends to be highly objective when it comes to our value system. We are in an eternal rush to assimilate objects. Money (our official value symbol) is the "objectification of objects", meaning it represents a universal abstraction of the worth of objects, the market value of objects, if you will. Thus, we "objectively" view objects.

That’s tough for me to say but it is true. I used to love the old Kudlow and Cramer show and I love Mad Money but he really is a pure bred all American Son of a Bitch.

Chronicles of a Broke College Student: Part 1.
Part 1: The Starving Artist.

So I’m in this semester long economics class with about 4 other kids. We are learning some stuff about the stock market and the teacher says “Most Americans don’t have money in the stock market”. To me this may be true but also very stupid for most Americans to do. And then he tells us that he does not have any money invested in the stock market. And that boggled my mind.

After reading an article on financial literacy, linked at the bottom, I've decided finance classes or something similar should be required in high school. Basically the articles are stating that a large percent of people don't understand debt, including how to compute compound interest, and that this could be a reason why some people have so much of it.

In the recent weeks, after losing a roomate to an internship, I have been faced with a tough decision: where to live. As a 25 year old single female living in North Jersey, there arent many feasible options. My full time job for a non profit gives me a meager salary with which to support myself, much less live luxuriously. Rent was doable for my 2 roomates and I.

For quite a while now the evening news has had a bit of a "Groundhog's Day" feel to it. Talk of the falling dollar and pictures of housing areas with "foreclosed" signs on many of the homes and a makeshift market in the lawn so that former home-owners can gather enough money for their next roof or to make next months credit card payment.

There are three groups of things I live for in life: (one) people whom I care for, (two) food, and (three) the arts. The latter, of which being the vector of thought.