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&lt;p&gt;The 18-34 year-old demo is one that grew up on great wealth and what we're facing could be the first real financial jolt we've seen. &lt;strong&gt;Sixty-five percent of college seniors plan to live with their parents after they graduate.&lt;/strong&gt; When you consider that they also have an average of three credit cards and &lt;strong&gt;73 percent will graduate with student loan debt&lt;/strong&gt;, that makes sense. From a college student who has no savings, to a recent graduate trying to move out of his parents' house, to young people who are trying to stay afloat living on their own, this half-hour takes a look at the personal side of our economic crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="field field-type-link field-field-source"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spiffyd-money/~4/mbw41jpPngM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://spiffyd.com/blog/what-happens-most-college-students-after-graduation</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>revolution, food shortages, higher education myth, and what to do?</title><link>http://feeds.spiffyd.com/~r/spiffyd-money/~3/bChfzmnP3cw/revolution-food-shortages-higher-education-myth-and-what-do</link><category>money</category><category>economy</category><category>education</category><category>jobs</category><category>recession</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Denis</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 21:27:04 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2487 at http://spiffyd.com</guid><description>&lt;!-- google_ad_section_start --&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/sites/default/files/users/Denis/images/economy_forecast_bear.jpg" class="facebox"&gt;&lt;img src="/sites/default/files/users/Denis/images/economy_forecast_bear_th.jpg" width="80" height="80" style="float: left;" class="hoverborder" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The following few videos I recently came across are extremely disturbing. &lt;a href="/freelinking/Gerald%20Celente" class="freelinking"&gt;Gerald Celente&lt;/a&gt;, a legendary trend forecaster who has accurately predicted every major world event since the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union and CEO of &lt;a href="/freelinking/Trends%20Research%20Institute" class="freelinking"&gt;Trends Research Institute&lt;/a&gt;, is now warning Americans (and the world) to prepare for a broad economic collapse, potential bank holidays, ghost malls, civil unrest, food riots, and possible revolution by 2012. The only possible salvation is a new technological innovation as revolutionary as fire or the wheel.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spiffyd-money/~4/bChfzmnP3cw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://spiffyd.com/blog/revolution-food-shortages-higher-education-myth-and-what-do</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>how many college grads are actually able to get a job?</title><link>http://feeds.spiffyd.com/~r/spiffyd-money/~3/kczapra9m-c/how-many-college-grads-are-actually-able-get-job</link><category>money</category><category>career</category><category>education</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Denis</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:50:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2480 at http://spiffyd.com</guid><description>&lt;!-- google_ad_section_start --&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/sites/default/files/users/Denis/images/edu_money.jpg" class="facebox"&gt;&lt;img src="/sites/default/files/users/Denis/images/edu_money_th.jpg" width="80" height="80" style="float: left;" class="hoverborder" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Consider the following results from a recent &lt;a href="http://www.naceweb.org/press/display.asp?year=&amp;amp;prid=301"&gt;study&lt;/a&gt; performed by the &lt;a href="/freelinking/National%20Association%20of%20Colleges%20and%20Employers" class="freelinking"&gt;National Association of Colleges and Employers&lt;/a&gt; to find out really how many college graduates are able to obtain jobs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Statistics do not lie. Now here's the million dollar question: Do you have a Plan B?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spiffyd-money/~4/kczapra9m-c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://spiffyd.com/blog/how-many-college-grads-are-actually-able-get-job</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>we're on the brink of a depression (and much more)</title><link>http://feeds.spiffyd.com/~r/spiffyd-money/~3/8HCuE80zfr8/were-brink-depression-and-much-more</link><category>money</category><category>recession</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Denis</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:43:33 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2479 at http://spiffyd.com</guid><description>&lt;!-- google_ad_section_start --&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/sites/default/files/users/Denis/images/recession_dollar2.jpg" class="facebox"&gt;&lt;img src="/sites/default/files/users/Denis/images/recession_dollar2_th.jpg" width="80" height="80" style="float: left;" class="hoverborder" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;While America's at record debt, Obama sanctions the Federal Reserve to print yet another $1 trillion of new money, sealing the fate for us and our posterity to endure higher taxes and hyperinflation in the near future. California is over $20 billion in debt and is on the brink of fiscal and infrastructural collapse. God forbidding -- threats of rioting and breakdown in social order are prompting FEMA &amp;amp; DHS to work with the UN to prepare for martial law are becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;When the rich have money problems, they use their financial integrity, developed through many years of facing and solving problems with the five financial intelligences, to solve those problems.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;"The poor see money problems only as problems. Many feel they are &lt;em&gt;victims of money&lt;/em&gt;. Many feel they are the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; ones with money problems. They think that if they had more money, their money problems would be over.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;While the poor are the victims of money, the middle class are prisoners of money. In describing the middle class, rich dad said, "The middle class solve their money problems different. Instead of solving the money problem, they think they can &lt;em&gt;outsmart their money problems&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;area title="Colorado" shape="rect" coords="124,100,173,138" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=6&amp;amp;state=Colorado" /&gt;
&lt;area title="South Dakota" shape="rect" coords="161,56,209,85" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=42&amp;amp;state=South Dakota" /&gt;
&lt;area title="New Mexico" shape="rect" coords="120,136,163,185" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=32&amp;amp;state=New Mexico" /&gt;
&lt;area title="California" shape="poly" coords="21,70,50,78,45,102,78,154,72,170,57,168,32,145,18,95" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=5&amp;amp;state=California" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Nevada" shape="poly" coords="50,77,90,86,78,148,46,104" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=29&amp;amp;state=Nevada" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Nebraska" shape="poly" coords="160,84,160,100,172,100,175,108,218,109,207,84" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=28&amp;amp;state=Nebraska" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Utah" shape="poly" coords="91,86,112,90,115,100,122,101,120,134,83,130" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=45&amp;amp;state=Utah" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Arizona" shape="poly" coords="83,131,119,136,118,185,74,170" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=3&amp;amp;state=Arizona" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Minnesota" shape="poly" coords="201,28,247,34,232,55,243,74,212,77" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=24&amp;amp;state=Minnesota" /&gt;
&lt;area title="North Dakota" shape="poly" coords="162,29,200,30,207,56,162,56" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=35&amp;amp;state=North Dakota" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Idaho" shape="poly" coords="83,17,92,19,91,35,97,53,103,63,113,67,112,88,72,79" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=13&amp;amp;state=Idaho" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Montana" shape="poly" coords="91,21,93,43,102,63,113,64,115,59,158,60,160,29" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=27&amp;amp;state=Montana" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Kansas" shape="poly" coords="172,111,219,110,224,117,223,137,173,138" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=17&amp;amp;state=Kansas" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Oklahoma" shape="poly" coords="163,138,224,138,228,167,202,164,189,159,186,143,165,143" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=37&amp;amp;state=Oklahoma" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Texas" shape="poly" coords="138,184,162,210,172,203,208,237,235,203,232,167,189,160,186,145,165,142,164,182" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=44&amp;amp;state=Texas" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Iowa" shape="poly" coords="218,106,209,77,242,77,251,90,246,102" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=16&amp;amp;state=Iowa" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Arkansas" shape="poly" coords="226,141,229,166,235,167,235,172,254,171,260,144,257,140" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=4&amp;amp;state=Arkansas" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Missouri" shape="poly" coords="219,105,243,105,265,134,262,146,227,141" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=26&amp;amp;state=Missouri" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Wisconsin" shape="poly" coords="231,55,242,46,266,57,267,80,248,84" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=50&amp;amp;state=Wisconsin" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Illinois" shape="poly" coords="248,83,254,89,245,105,267,131,274,119,269,86,265,82" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=14&amp;amp;state=Illinois" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Louisiana" shape="poly" coords="234,172,235,203,251,201,265,204,269,198,265,190,252,189,253,173,256,177,250,171" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=19&amp;amp;state=Louisiana" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Mighigan" shape="poly" coords="273,87,299,82,303,72,297,63,293,67,290,52,283,48,276,63" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=23&amp;amp;state=Mighigan" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Mighigan" shape="poly" coords="246,45,259,36,258,41,265,44,277,39,286,45,267,54" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=23&amp;amp;state=Mighigan" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Mississippi" shape="poly" coords="259,152,252,173,256,176,253,190,267,189,269,194,274,192,275,151" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=25&amp;amp;state=Mississippi" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Alabama" shape="poly" coords="275,149,294,147,303,171,302,184,284,185,286,192,277,193" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=1&amp;amp;state=Alabama" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Indiana" shape="poly" coords="269,88,289,86,294,111,273,124,286,121,275,123" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=15&amp;amp;state=Indiana" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Ohio" shape="poly" coords="290,86,294,110,311,111,322,95,318,77" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=36&amp;amp;state=Ohio" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Tennessee" shape="poly" coords="265,136,259,152,304,145,321,128" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=43&amp;amp;state=Tennessee" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Kentucky" shape="poly" coords="264,137,309,128,316,121,311,111,295,111,274,124" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=18&amp;amp;state=Kentucky" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Georgia" shape="poly" coords="295,147,305,185,333,182,333,167,312,146" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=11&amp;amp;state=Georgia" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Pennsylvania" shape="poly" coords="318,76,324,97,357,89,359,83,357,72,352,67" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=39&amp;amp;state=Pennsylvania" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Florida" shape="poly" coords="285,185,332,181,352,218,350,231,344,233,318,194" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=10&amp;amp;state=Florida" /&gt;
&lt;area title="South Carolina" shape="poly" coords="311,147,335,168,348,146,328,142,319,142" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=41&amp;amp;state=South Carolina" /&gt;
&lt;area title="North Carolina" shape="poly" coords="321,128,303,146,318,142,338,142,352,146,367,124,363,117" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=34&amp;amp;state=North Carolina" /&gt;
&lt;area title="New York" shape="poly" coords="319,74,354,68,367,73,357,35,345,42" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=33&amp;amp;state=New York" /&gt;
&lt;area title="New York" shape="poly" coords="365,72,368,77,378,66" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=33&amp;amp;state=New York" /&gt;
&lt;area title="West Virginia" shape="poly" coords="311,113,320,123,340,94,323,96" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=49&amp;amp;state=West Virginia" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Vermont" shape="poly" coords="357,35,367,31,369,54,365,55" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=46&amp;amp;state=Vermont" /&gt;
&lt;area title="New Hampshire" shape="poly" coords="367,29,369,53,379,48,369,28" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=30&amp;amp;state=New Hampshire" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Maine" shape="poly" coords="370,28,381,47,397,19,380,2,373,4" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=20&amp;amp;state=Maine" /&gt;
&lt;area title="New Jersey" shape="poly" coords="356,69,365,73,365,92,358,89" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=31&amp;amp;state=New Jersey" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Massachusetts" shape="poly" coords="364,56,365,62,377,57,382,62,387,58,380,50" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=22&amp;amp;state=Massachusetts" /&gt;
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&lt;area title="Hawaii" shape="poly" coords="143,222,132,231,87,196,93,192,124,204" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=12&amp;amp;state=Hawaii" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Rhode Island" shape="poly" coords="376,58,383,61,379,66" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=40&amp;amp;state=Rhode Island" /&gt;
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&lt;area title="Delaware" shape="poly" coords="355,89,360,91,366,98,359,99" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=8&amp;amp;state=Delaware" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Maryland" shape="poly" coords="351,91,356,91,358,99,365,99,362,105,356,101" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=21&amp;amp;state=Maryland" /&gt;
&lt;area title="Maryland" shape="poly" coords="353,89,339,98,352,102" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=21&amp;amp;state=Maryland" /&gt;
&lt;area title="District of Columbia" shape="poly" coords="341,99,349,101,342,106" href="http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/stimulus_map/index.html?state_id=9&amp;amp;state=District of Columbia" /&gt;
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