Archive for July 14th, 2004
How To Make $22,000 On A $25 Investment
Ida May Fuller, the first recepient of a retirement check from the Social Security Administration, received a total of $22,888.92 in benefits from 1940 until her death in 1975. Not bad for someone who only paid $24.75 in social security taxes during the three years she worked under the program. How’s that not a ponzi [...]
It’s policies like these that drive many of us into business for ourselves. via Jen at Circadian Shift.
Careful When Building on a House of Cards
Robbie Vorhaus writes that using a credit card to build your business may not be the best idea. Three years into building his business, Vorhaus Communications, Inc., he found himself $125,000 in debt, $65,000 of which was credit card debt. This is the story of how after he eventually paid off his debts, his opinion [...]
