The Corey Story

I work for b5media providing support to a network of 330+ blogs.  As the main line of support, it is critical that I keep a close eye on the support queue at all times.  One of the things I have noticed with my job is how critical response time is.  Whenever a ticket comes (more…)

With the stock market as risky as ever, I saw an interesting piece on CNN today. They showed ROI for 10K for the past decade. They showed the statistic in two different views: one was the value of 10K if you didn’t touch your money while the other was the value of 10K if you missed (more…)

With the APR on credit cards around 18% interest, one can get into a lot of trouble if they rack up too many bills and make only the minimum payment on their card.  Although young, I steer clear of using my credit card whenever I can.  I follow some simple rules when deciding whether to use a credit card when making a purchase:

1.  How long (more…)

Sorry for being a few days late on this - been extremely busy! Anyways, I recently wrote a post on Project Lifeline and the housing crisis. Many people took the risk of using an ARM for their mortgage and paid…big time. When trying to decide between whether a risk is worth taking, one must look at the entire picture and the decision oftentimes boils down to the simplest of things: common sense. Risk is a sexy word. People like to be (more…)

Project lifeline was announced today to give homeowners facing foreclosure 30 extra days to resolve their ordeal with their lender in an attempt to prevent the number of foreclosures from piling up to higher totals. This entire housing crunch could have been easily avoided had the homeowners (more…)