personal expenses

One unanswered question posed by this recession is, will we return to our previous buying habits once we believe that it is over? A new Harris poll does nothing to clarify it for us, because it shows that we continue to look for more frugal alternatives in our day-to-day spending. One way we are...

Our friends at VisualEconomics.com produced this chart from U.S. Department of Labor statistics showing how Americans changed the way they've spent their paychecks over the past 100 years. I was particularly taken by the relatively small increase in the percentage of our overall expenditures that...