Jan 26 2013

Can you live in California on a $60,000 a year household income? Living the middle class lifestyle in California on $60,000 a year.

Can you live comfortably in California making $60,000 a year?  It really depends on what you define as comfortably.  We should note that the median household income in the US is $50,000 and in California it isn’t much higher.  California gets a notorious rap of being an expensive state but this is if the entire […]

Jan 24 2013

What does Detroit say about the working class in the US? City has lost over 25 percent of its population since 2000. People take scrap metal from old buildings to export to China.

One of the biggest examples of the US eroding its working class is through the example of Detroit.  The city of Detroit has lost a stunning 25 percent of its population between 2000 and 2010.  Poverty is rampant with 3 out of 5 kids living below the poverty line.  It is a startling revelation of […]

Jan 22 2013

Are we missing critical inflation data with the CPI? How the government over time has altered the CPI to under report inflation.

Most Americans realize that their standard of living has decreased.  Many realize today that their dollars do not go as far as they once did.  We try to reflect this data via the Consumer Price Index but over the last few decades, this index has been adjusted to suit the needs of those producing the […]

Jan 19 2013

Income Based Repayment plan cementing inflated higher education costs for graduate school: How new IBR Pay as you Earn plan will be a big win for graduate students and keep college costs high. Student debt to hit $1.8 trillion in 2020.

It is interesting that the two segments in our economy mired in debt, housing and higher education, were largely inflated courtesy of easy access to debt.  New rules on how students pay back their student debt including the Income Based Repayment plan ironically will keep prices inflated.  The new program dubbed “Pay as you Earn” […]

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