Article below was reported on Dow Jones News. Home Price Recovery May Take A Decade Moody’s Investors Service threw cold water on optimistic projections of a V-shaped recovery in the battered U.S. housing market, predicting it could take more than 10 years to get back to boom-level prices. “For many reasons, the rebound will be… Continue reading Bad news for the house flippers.

Today’s bad economy does have a few advantages. One advantage is the opportunity to negotiate good deals on goods and services. Business are in a good mood for negatiating a lower price when the economy is sour because existing customers are much more important as new customers are harder to get. Here is a good… Continue reading Negotiating Good Deals in a Bad Economy

While most financial planners are still extolling the virtues of stocks—even in the midst of a recession—Zvi Bodie is telling retirement-age investors to run the other way. Read the entire advise at the following site http://tinyurl.com/m2ls8a

Here is a website with some interesting articles and references: http://freefrombroke.com/ with the caption, “Free from Broke – A Financial Website for Regular Folks.”

Policy September 2009 Atlantic Magazine “After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current… Continue reading How American Health Care Killed My Father

“The “death panels” are already here” Sorry, Sarah Palin — rationing of care? Private companies are already doing it, with sometimes fatal results By Mike Madden http://www.salon. com/news/ feature/2009/ 08/11/denial_ of_care/index. html

Considering the furious debate in Congress and guerilla tactics being used publically in attacks on Democratic members of Congress, I’m reposting this on today’s date as it may be of interest as a bit of information on health care in Korea. Korean Health Care Costs Tue May 13, 2008 8:26 pm (PDT) (Note: The following… Continue reading Health Care Cost in Korea

In 2002 I wrote an article for the Marion County Arkansas Genealogy Site. The article was titled, J.C. Cheek’s Roots in Marion County, Arkansas. The story also appears in my series of short stories titled “Digressions of J. Charles” with the title of A Boy Named J.C. Digressions of J. Charles A Boy Named J.C.… Continue reading A Boy Named J.C.

Things are spiraling out of control. I think I have become lost in a world of electronic madness. One of my sons informed me this week that my cell phone has become obsolete and I must head down to the Cell Phone store and get a phone that is contemporary with the time. I pointed… Continue reading Electronically Challenged (Author unknown)

Digressions of J. Charles You Talking to Me, Punk! © July 27, 2009 J. Charles Cheek A recent horoscope for me read, “If you’re not getting what you want today, whether it is ice cream flavors or respect, don’t put up with it. Your cheeky assertiveness will be attractive and compelling today, so don’t be… Continue reading You Talkin’ to Me, Punk?