economicstimulus

As one of the 10.3 million unemployed people in America, I'm having trouble getting on board with the $775 billion stimulus plan that President-elect Barack Obama is proposing to Congress to help stimulate the economy and get people back to work soon. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, as...

The Internal Revenue Service has put out some helpful tips for those who are still waiting to receive their economic stimulus checks. There are tons of reasons why you might not have gotten yours yet, and it's a safe bet that no one really knows how long it will take for you to get it. But the IRS...

By now you may have heard about help for first-time home buyers in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. I'm not a big fan of this legislation in general, but I still think it's important for consumers to know what it offers and how they can benefit.If you're a first-time home buyer, the...

In case you haven't ever watched the news, listened to a radio, or picked up a newspaper in the last several months, you should know that the Internal Revenue Service is sending out lots of checks to lots of people. But in order to get one of these checks via the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, you...

What do you know? The check really was in the mail.After a long wait for my economic stimulus payment, the check appeared in my mailbox yesterday, June 23.After all the confusion about when we'd be getting the money, and in what form, I wasn't exactly holding my breath June 20, when the paper check...

I am so sick of hearing about the economic stimulus checks, also dubbed tax rebate checks. Our government has been doing its level best to spend many billions of dollars on this endeavor. In addition to the $150 billion or more that is projected to be sent out, the IRS spent millions to send out...

Retailers are reporting that consumers shopped more in May, and if you believe the experts, it's largely thanks to the economic stimulus checks that started showing up in May. Sales were stronger than expected, with the best numbers shown by discount retailers like Costco and Wal-Mart. Some of the...

If you, like me, haven't received your economic stimulus check yet, then you might have spent part of the past few weeks contemplating all the possible ways you could spend your little gift from Dubya. After all, when the President puts a couple of bucks in your pocket, pats you on the fanny, and...

I've been a bicycling fool for many years, but the recent few years have been unkind; carpal tunnel surgery, two rotator cuff repairs, and an arthritic back have forced me to hang up the old two-wheeler. Thanks to the government's largess, however, I'll soon be back on the road on my new ride, a...

I wanted to spend my stimulus money (all $600 of it) on something foolish. I really did. But common sense usually wins in my house. So I promptly took my $600 and put it into my Scottrade account. I immediately invested the money in Chico's stock. Chico's is a women's clothing store that has been...