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With food so readily available it is easy to waste money on food. Consider this situation. You’re driving down the road and all of a sudden you realize you are hungry. You decide to go to a fast food restaurant to fix your pangs.

When you arrive at the fast food chain restaurant you quickly peruse their menu and discover that anything less than $3.00 will promote cardiac arrest. You choose to avoid this by going with a more expensive and healthy option.

It is wise to avoid the unnecessary saturated fat but you are also incurring unnecessary costs. We all lose so much money to high cost food. If we can simply plan ahead and prepare food from grocery stores we will save ourselves hundreds of dollars each year.

Ford’s loss of only $638 million dollars this last quarter helped Ford’s stock rise on the unexpected news.

Ford is one of the few American car companies that have not received a government bailout in the last year. Due to cost cutting, accounting maneuvers, and a gain in market share throughout the world, Ford was able to cut losses in the last quarter. Company officials expect to return to profitability sometime in 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

During this recession as a whole we are making less money. An interesting thing occurs when this happens—the government also makes less money. When our incomes falter so do our taxes meaning the government will not get as much from us as it used to. In order to rectify this I imagine many different city and state governments do different things.

One way for governments to make more money would be to issue more traffic citations. When we speed in the city and get a ticket we are giving our money to that city. Because of this the more tickets they issue the more money they get.

In realizing this we should take great notice of our speedometer. During this time we should slow down and avoid these tickets. The good news is when we do this we also get better fuel economy.