The newest “thing” in the sub-prime loan crisis is this: Banks now are freezing credit lines (called HELOC’s - Home Equity Lines of Credit) because the amount borrowed (including both the HELOC and the mortgage) is exceeding the value of the home.
For example, CBS reports that Countrywide, one of the largest U.S. […]
Talking ’bout my generation…
I was reading Baby Boomer Stephen King’s book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and I ran across this:
I don’t want to speak disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead).
Ouch!
Kennth Gronbach (author of […]
A great Baby Boomer business might be selling on EBay. If you are like me, you have lots of stuff to get rid of, and you are good at spotting bargains. Suzanne Wells, over at EShopOwner, has a great book to give you to help you start your EBay business.
Suzanne says, “As […]
This year my husband and I joined other family members in a membership to a local community garden. This was probably a bad year to start, because the weather in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has been awful, first with the floods and then no rain for about a month. But it has been fun to get […]
Here are some more great responses for the “50 things to do at 50″ contest.
Play Nintendo DS to keep your mind sharp
Buy a Wii and get fit in the comfort of your home. I do not do gyms, so this would be a great alternative. You can do what you want, when you want and […]
Yesterday I talked about The Age Curve by Baby Boomer Kenneth Gronbach. The book’s subtitle is “How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm.” The “storm” he’s talking about, I think, is the influx of baby boomers as an aging generation and its effect on many areas of economics.
Yesterday, I said Gronbach’s central premise is […]
I have a winner in the replay of the “50 things to do at 50″ contest (more about the winner after he/she is notified). The responses were FANTASTIC and I want to share them with you, in no particular order:
Think about what you enjoy and then act on it! Start a hobby or business […]
I’ve been reading an excellent book titled The Age Curve: Why Size Matters, by Kenneth W. Gronbach (AMACOM, 2008). The book is valuable to anyone wanting to understand the importance of what Gronbach calls “generational demographics” and how to use it for marketing and selling to baby boomers and other generations.
Gronbach’s basic premise is […]
My favorite Twilight Zone episode is one with Burgess Meredith titled “Time Enough at Last,” in which he plays a henpecked husband who just wants to find time to read. Remember it?
Well, it appears that book reading is becoming less popular among the younger generations (X and Y), and independent bookstores, even in highly literate […]
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