It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

It’s a busy weekend for me, and I’ve got a lot of ground to cover, so let’s get right to it today. Here we go!

The Way-Back Machine:

Continue reading Black Coffee: To Work, or Not to Work — That Is the Question.

It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

Have you seen Oreo’s “Whisper Fight” television commercial? I can’t get enough of it. There are more laughs in that 30-second masterpiece than there were during all

Continue reading Black Coffee: When Did They Stop Teaching Basic Economics in America?

It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

If any of you out there plan on going on a first date this Valentine’s Day, try not to utter either of these lines — especially if

Continue reading Black Coffee: Why 100-Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars Doesn’t Go as Far as It Used To

It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

Okay, I’m now going to ask my trusty Magic 8 Ball to name the winner of this Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Baltimore Ravens and San

Continue reading Black Coffee: My Magic 8 Ball Predicts the Super Bowl Victor — and Other Things

It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

I’ve got a few things I have to do this weekend, so I need to get right to it, folks. As a result, there will be no

Continue reading Black Coffee: Why a Million Apples a Day Couldn’t Keep the Sellers Away

It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

Oprah called last week asking me for an interview. Of course, I refused. So she settled for Lance Armstrong instead.

That being said, I want to make one

Continue reading Black Coffee: Somebody Call Oprah — I’ve Got a Confession to Make.

For the past three years, I’ve been using my trusty Magic 8-Ball to predict the future. I know.

Laugh all you want, folks, but it’s been quite successful over the years. In 2010, my Magic 8-Ball had an astounding 70% success rate. The following year’s prognostications were almost as good; 66% of the predictions for 2011 turned out to be correct.

With results like that, it’s no wonder people were lining up

Continue reading Looking Back at My Magic 8-Ball’s Predictions for 2012

It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

Well, the dang rat is back. We hear him almost every evening inside the wall behind our refrigerator.

The good news is he seems to be staying out

Continue reading Black Coffee: Why Texas Doesn’t Mess with Taxes

It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

I have good news and bad news on the rat front, folks: I still haven’t caught the wily rat that’s been wreaking havoc in my house over

Continue reading Black Coffee: Deficits? We Don’t Need to Worry About Stinking Deficits!

It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…

For the past month I’ve been in a battle of wits with a pesky rat that found its way into my house and made itself at home.

The

Continue reading Black Coffee: You No-Good Lousy Dirty Filthy Stinking Rat