I am considering a new car, mine is an 8 year old Nissan Murano. I have looked, test drove, and cross shopped. My biggest issue is interior size. I am big, tall, wide. I have to have room in the drivers seat. I only fit in the following vehicles, which will meet my basic wants. SUV/CUV (I like riding higher due…

I am not saying the report is right or wrong, but credit makes up only part of your loan percentage. Yes you have to have a great credit to get awesome rates, but when you fall out of the "good" credit line (under 700 I think) you start to get into other things like down payment, income, discretionary spending, etc.…

Interesting take on this idea. I generally go more for the slow cooker solution (put it in a crock pot), or baked solution in a cast iron skillet.

German cars (built in Germany) use unions, also cost more, and thus have higher margins. However they were not on the list, thus we could not tell.

Most of the cars sold in the US are made in the US. The issue is, taxation on profits, exchange rate, and cost of labor (due to lack of unions at many southern plants).

Right down the road from there ... It was -7 this morning when it happened ;)

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I may be bass ackwards from you, but I find I am buying less and less from Amazon. I don't pay for prime (I find their streaming lacking) and I refuse to pay someone $100 bucks for the privilege of shipping me something I purchased. Since 2 years ago when they raised the $25 minimum to $35 in free shipping, I have…

9 years old, 4th grade, having an Apple 2 knock off (built in Singapore, called a Pineapple), and doing spelling words on it since my writing is so bad (teachers made me type). This is if you don't count a calculator (got one, cost $58 for my 2nd birthday) and an Atari 2600.

There are levels of non-competes. I have written and signed many in my career.

Most industrialized countries pick their largest cities and perform a CPI (Consumer Pricing Index) or some equivalent. All this did was take the CPIs from several countries and put them in one place.

Who is the we in this statement? Normal driving public? Poor people? The rich with extra money in their pocket? I doubt very much I would pay for this car. If I wanted something like this car, I would just go for the Rogue or Murano .. tons cheaper.

You stated "Re-use, security, and trendiness" ... My issue is with security. How are these homes more secure? I mean give me a fire axe and I can break into a container as fast as I can a traditional vinyl siding house. Plus if you put doors and windows on it, they are less structurally sound, and also just as…

Yes and no. When you are looking at a vehicle, and the COST of the vehicle allows you to handle your edge case, then why not? I mean paying for a pickup truck is still almost 30% cheaper than buying the low end tesla. That 30% could pay for gas for years.

I had a 15 year mortgage as well and was at year 6. My interest was falling off (so the tax advantages were not much) but the interest was high - and could not re-finance (due to being self employed). However I spent 2 years unemployed during those 6 years (which I could do nothing to refinance then as well as I…

I don't know .. I did the numbers in my situation and I found paying it off worked best for me. Then again - I got a lump sum - and still earn a lot of income. No matter what I did, I was maxing my roth, and paying monthly mortgage of 5.2%. Figured that the tax exemption (deduction for mortgage interest) and taxes…

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Crash Test Standards. Not that I want my cars to not be safer, but I don't want a bureaucrat telling me how to design my cars (ie. materials, length, etc.) Let cars be independently tested (as they are by the insurance institute) and let their chips fall where they might. If a 1990 corolla could get a 3 star…

First day of college, I got a job at the help desk as I spent years in high school doing support and programming. I was introduced to Gopher, Archie, NetNews. I remember when one student showed me Berkeley's Webpage. I didn't see much as it was on lync - on a unix SSH session. About 2 years later, I saw it when…

Why Kill off the good cars in a lineup to "make their own brands" and thus leave the brands with their own remaining loss leaders? That is just crazy. The reason they work is because they are part of an existing ecosystem of parts, dealers, manufacturing and design . Take all that away and you are left with crap.