Free Financial E-Book! Will Self Destruct This Thursday!

For those who haven't been reading the newspapers the forecast for 2009 is...I guess the best word to describe what's going on is scary. Years ago I used to stare (longingly) at the full mall parking lots and wonder if anyone in Sacramento had a job. Today I'm wondering the same thing, only for different reasons. The local economy is bad. The truly frightening holiday bills are arriving in our mail boxes. Today the only way you can afford dinner and a movie is if you get a free ticket in exchange for donating a pint of blood and stay in their rest area for 30 minutes devouring Lorna Doone cookies and making mixed drinks out of all their juices. This may be completely fine to some people, but those donation buses are freakin cold! Plus I was too sick to donate last time. If only there was some type of plan to show us how to dig ourselves out of this mess...

Suze Ormans's 2009 Action Plan is available as a free download on Oprah Winfrey's website. However, unlike many items on our Overdrive catalog, it is not an always available book which can be downloaded at any time. The offer expires at 11:59 p.m. CT on Thursday, January 15. So hurry, hurry, hurry!

Will Rap for Food

Has anyone seen this article?

It appears Ed McMahon is turning to rap in order to pay his debts. After seeing him in that suit (though he admittedly looks better in his than the plastic surgeon from Dr. 90210) my first thought was, “Isn’t this one of the signs of the Apocalypse?”

No. It’s a sign of brokenness.

Many of us have been down-on-our-luck-pass-the-ramen-noodles broke at one point in our lives---I believe it’s called the college years. But this is getting ridiculous. First I watch the couple on Oprah trying to wrench sympathy from Suze Orman for getting behind in payments on their 29 (yes, 29) credit cards, and now I have to watch this? But at least Ed McMahon is famous enough to get offered commercials. What will happen to the rest of us non-celebrities? In this economy you’re lucky if you can get a job waiving a sign on a corner while dressed up as a taco. So for those who are in a little hot water yet haven’t come up with a more creative manner in which to sing/rap/chant/yodel F-R-E-E-C-R-E-D-I-T-R-E-P-O-R-T.com, check out our personal finance section.