The Clean Energy Recovery: Creating Jobs, Building New Industries and Saving Money
The Clean Energy Recovery: Creating Jobs, Building New Industries and Saving Money - Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming ...
Save Money on Car Insurance?
Well - I do this if you switch to Geico, the nation, I have about 500 dollars, one year, then another Allstate 500 for the switch - it is a new progress ... .. 400 . the bottom Well, I just switch them from competitors if I may need down the car insurance so far achieved nothing - to wait, and suggested the nation, I have $ 500 saving.
U.S. Dollar Index and Real Estate: Foreigners Buy Commercial Real ...
You wouldn’t know it by listening to current headlines but the economy in March was inching closer and closer to its own zero bound. Since that time the market has put together one of the fiercest rallies in U.S. history. We would have to go back to the Great Depression to find a similar rally. There are wildcard factors at play right now. The U.S. dollar is inching closer to the lows of 2008. The stock market is getting closer to the pre- Lehman Brothers days. The U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve have put together a ragtag package of bailouts that have no historical precedent. We should expect the unexpected in the path ahead.
One issue rarely talked about is how the weak dollar is going to impact foreigners buying real estate. For the most part, I’m not sure how much of an impact this will have on residential real estate. With commercial real estate we may see a good amount of buying if the dollar continues to get pounded. Yet it is important to look at what currencies make up the U.S. dollar index:
Source: Akmos
By far the largest weighted currency is the Euro. Yet many of the countries within the basket that make up the U.S. dollar index are facing their own demons. That is why I am hesitant to think the dollar will simply fly off a cliff while every other currency goes up and foreigners suddenly get an urge to buy up every Real Home of Genius on every corner of America.
What is fascinating is how connected the U.S. dollar and stock market have become. I was unable to find charts that overlay the S&P 500 and the U.S. dollar index so I matched them up to give you a clear perspective of what is occurring:
As the chart above highlights, the dollar had been falling hard for all of 2007.The market in late 2007, the dollar and stock market both in the U.S. in the short term this erroneous concept or belief has recorded a decrease in this separation. Up to 70 dollars in 2008 bottomed out early this continued. However, it was later to rejoin the world, the dollar soared in 2009 to three month low in the stock market. For this period, the dollar had been rising stock market have plummeted. You can twist your mind, in 2007 three more month low, inflexible in the opposite direction from the dollar to move from the stock market. This is almost a perfect match!...
Save Money by Making Others Pay » The Antiplanner
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has a solution to the high cost of living: make other taxpayers subsidize your lifestyle. Specifically, APTA reports that people can save $9,000 a year by riding public transit instead of driving.
What APTA doesn’t mention is that transit appears inexpensive only because most of the cost of transit is paid by non-transit riders. In 2007, subsidies to transit average 66 cents per passenger mile.
To calculate the $9,000 annual savings, APTA assumes that people would substitute transit for 15,000 miles of driving each year. At 66 cents per mile, that works out to $10,000 of subsidies to save $9,000 in costs. Not only are transit riders making other people subsidize them, they are making other people pay more in subsidies than the former auto drivers are saving.
Some of APTA’s numbers are a little suspect. At $9,000 in savings per year, APTA presumes that driving 15,000 miles costs 60 cents a mile. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Americans spent $968 billion buying and operating motor vehicles in 2007, while the Department of Transportation says they drove those vehicles about 2.8 trillion miles .
That works out to about 35 cents per vehicle mile. This means someone substituting transit for 15,000 miles of driving would save only about $5,250 a year — while making someone else pay $10,000 to subsidize their travel.
APTA overestimated the cost of driving because it used the AAA estimate of the average cost of driving. AAA assume that everyone buys a car new, pays the maximum finance charges, and replaces it as soon as it is paid off. Obviously, many people save money by buying used cars, paying cash instead of finance charges, and keeping them longer than five years.
It gets worse. The average car has 1.6 people in it, so 15,000 miles of driving is really 24,000 passenger miles. The subsidies required to support 24,000 passenger miles of transit usage amount to nearly $16,000 per year. That means APTA’s hypothetical household is getting as much as $16,000 in subsidies but saving only a little more than $5,000, for a net social loss of more than $10,000 per year.
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