Every Friday afternoon I share some of the more interesting or notable posts that I have seen in the personal finance blogs and other sources for the past week
DoughRoller gives us 23 Powerful Tips and Tools to Eliminate Debt
The site ValueWalk has an interesting finding with 39% Of Stocks Have A Negative Lifetime Total Return Seems awful, but I think its really just a reflection of the fact that a certain % of businesses fail. The data does include delisted stocks. Plus a certain % of active stocks are in the process of failing.
Note: due to the Thanksgiving holiday next week I don't plan to do a roll up on the 27th.
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November 20, 2015
Best of Blogs Week of November 20th
November 9, 2015
Cherry Moon Farms Shipping Costs $9.99 or $14.99
Cherry Moon Farms sells gift basket type stuff.
I had to put an item into my cart and go all the way past entering a payment method to the last steep to find the shipping cost. Their standard delivery charge was listed as $14.99 for the item I selected. Buried in a discounts coupon page they have a reference to shipping starting at $9.99.
Their customer care site does not seem to do anything but point to itself.
So it seems their shipping charges are $9.99 or $14.99 for standard delivery. The item I tested to buy was relatively small and cheap.
The reason I'm posting this is that I didn't see anything at all on the site as I was shopping until the very last step before I hit the final 'submit order' button.
I have a code for $10 off a purchase at Groupon so I was browsing around there looking for nice deals. I have to spend $20 to get the $10 off. If I find the right deal then that can be a great bargain.
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November 8, 2015
GDP Per Capita By Metropolitan Area 2014
The figures below are straight off the BEA.gov website using their interactive tables.
Here is the top 20:
| Area | 2014 | Rank |
| United States | $ 52,526 | -- |
| Midland, TX | $ 162,786 | 1 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | $ 105,482 | 2 |
| Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT | $ 94,349 | 3 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA | $ 80,643 | 4 |
| Casper, WY | $ 76,174 | 5 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | $ 75,874 | 6 |
| Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH | $ 74,746 | 7 |
| Trenton, NJ | $ 73,719 | 8 |
| Durham-Chapel Hill, NC | $ 73,523 | 9 |
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | $ 72,191 | 10 |
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA | $ 70,830 | 11 |
| Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX | $ 70,097 | 12 |
| Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA | $ 67,256 | 13 |
| Boulder, CO | $ 66,927 | 14 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | $ 66,168 | 15 |
| Anchorage, AK | $ 65,838 | 16 |
| Sioux Falls, SD | $ 65,593 | 17 |
| Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | $ 64,991 | 18 |
| Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT | $ 64,946 | 19 |
| Madison, WI | $ 63,910 | 20 |
What I see in the top 20 is big urban areas and a few resource rich areas with mining or oil money.
And a national map :
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After I wrote this TheBigPicture linked to a graphic map created by howmuch.net
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November 6, 2015
Best of Blogs for Week of November 6th
Every Friday afternoon I share some of the more interesting or notable posts that I have seen in the personal finance blogs and other sources for the past week
MyMoneyBlog tells us the myRA Starter Retirement Account Launches Nationwide
They also give us a 529 College Savings Plans: State-by-State Tax Benefit Comparison 2015
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