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Black Coffee: Would You Believe My Dog Ate the First Half of this Article?

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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11 Comments October 1, 2011

Black Coffee: Financial Bullies & Why I Insist on Being Buried in Chicago

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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18 Comments September 24, 2011

Black Coffee: Cheapskates, Crooning Car Washers & Frigid Husbands

By Len Penzo

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 whats been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Heres what caught my attention over the past ...

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14 Comments September 17, 2011

Black Coffee: Shoplifting Tips, Poor Financial Decisions & Schweddy Balls

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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15 Comments September 10, 2011

Black Coffee: Billionaires, Bargain Nazis & Stumping to Make Plutus a Planet

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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6 Comments September 3, 2011

Black Coffee: Tooth Fairy Payouts, the Ethics of Flirting for Provel Cheese & Other Dilemmas

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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11 Comments August 27, 2011

Black Coffee: How Gynecologists and Engineers Are a Lot Alike — Or Not.

By Dr. Dean Burke

Dear Readers: I love Dr. Dean -- and not just because he's a world famous gynecologist. He's also the proprietor of one of my favorite blogs: The Millionaire Nurse Blog. Thankfully, he was kind enough to once again agree to fill in for me on this ...

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10 Comments August 20, 2011

Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Guess this Room Service Bill.

By Len Penzo

As I mentioned here the other day, I recently spent a fun weekend at one of those fancy pancy resort hotels in Scottsdale, Arizona. You know the kind. This place has every amenity a Kardashian girl could ever want including a spa, the obligatory ...

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42 Comments August 17, 2011

My BBQ Sauce Taste Test: My Family Bucks Conventional Wisdom (Again)

By Len Penzo

Depending on who you talk to, barbecue sauces have been around since the days of the American colonies. Wikipedia claims that the first commercial barbecue sauce appeared around 1909. I know; please don't grill me on my source, folks. And while ...

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19 Comments August 15, 2011

Black Coffee: Excuse Me, But I Think Something Got Lost In Translation.

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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7 Comments August 13, 2011

Black Coffee: You Got Me … I’m Not a Real Doctor, But I Play One on TV.

By Len Penzo

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 whats been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Heres what caught my attention over the past ...

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3 Comments August 6, 2011

Black Coffee: Indispensable Job Advice for the Employed & Unemployed

By Len Penzo

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 whats been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Heres what caught my attention over the past ...

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15 Comments July 30, 2011

The Scapegoat: GE Money Takes Your Cash and Stores Take the Fall

By Guest

by Angie Picardo “If you apply for a [store name] credit card today you can get [arbitrary number]% off your purchase.” I can’t remember the last time I was able to go to a mall without being bombarded with pitches for store credit cards. I always ...

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4 Comments July 27, 2011

Dogs and Old Cars: Why Both Are Worthy Of Being Man’s Best Friend

By Len Penzo

I was surfing the Internet this week when I stumbled upon a brilliant essay by The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten on why old dogs make the best dogs. In it, Weingarten astutely observed: "It's no big deal to love a dog; they make it so easy for ...

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36 Comments July 25, 2011

Black Coffee: The Economic IQ of Craigslist Sellers, Pissed-Off Neighbors & Other Crap

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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10 Comments July 23, 2011

Len Penzo dot Com Surpasses One Million Page Views!

By Len Penzo

When I wrote my first article for Len Penzo dot Com way back on December 11, 2008, one milestone I never considered reaching was the magical one million page-views marker. It's a good thing too, because during the first nine months of this blog's ...

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27 Comments July 20, 2011

Black Coffee: 11 Questions, 1 Complaint, 5 Gnomes and a Dead Plaintiff

By Len Penzo

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 whats been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Heres what caught my attention over the past ...

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3 Comments July 16, 2011

How to Choose a Reasonable Health Care Plan on a Budget

By Guest

by Patricia Walling Every year there are millions of Americans who struggle to afford health care. This can be due to insurance companies raising premiums, but there can be other reasons too. For example, many people who are either unemployed or ...

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2 Comments July 13, 2011

Black Coffee: Cleveland, The 15-Minute Rule & the Pursuit of Happiness

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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9 Comments July 9, 2011

Black Coffee: July 4th … A Time for Baseball, Barbecues, Hot Dogs & Bankrupcty

By Len Penzo

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 ...

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11 Comments July 2, 2011

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