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Jason Guthrie

Jason Guthrie has written 377 posts for BeancounterBlog.com

Why Don’t We Know the Truth Behind Gas Prices?

If you google “reasons behind high gas prices” you’ll get about a thousand different answers. High state or federal taxes, supply, demand, OPEC, President Bush, oil companies, Wall Street speculation… the list goes on.
And to be quite honest, I’m not sure who to believe. The republicans are using the issue to push for […]

Breaking News: Some Americans Pay Off Their Credit Cards in Full

According to a recent Gallup poll, 43% of American credit-card holders say they always pay off the full balance on their cards each month and another 17% say they usually pay their full balances each month. On the other hand, 25% acknowledge that they usually leave a balance and 12% say they usually pay only […]

Sell Stuff on eBay? You May Now HAVE To Pay Taxes.

Within Senator Christopher Dodd’s 630-page Senate housing legislation is a provision that nobody knows about, but affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill’s managers without debate this week, would require the nation’s payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly […]

What a Bankrupt Office Looks Like

Mr. Toledano, a New York City photographer, began an interesting photography project shooting offices after bankruptcy. As he describes, the project is more “archaeology than photography.” So if you want to see glimpses of life, interrupted, then check out the gallery.

Is Preventing Identity Theft Impossible?

Well, if we’ve learned anything this week it’s that keeping your identity safe isn’t helped by posting your social security number on billboards and magazine ads all over the country.
Two years ago, Todd Davis, the founder of LifeLock, decided to plaster his Social Security number wherever he could get ad space. For a fee of […]