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Friday Financials: How to put you money where your mouth is. Literally.

By Molly Priesmeyer | 06.06.08 | 12:20 pm

Forget hoarding rice and flour. It looks like it’s time to start stuffing money into the cookie jar or under the mattress instead. Friday Financials looks at why keeping bills with the bed bugs might be the new…

Friday Financials: If it’s 1980 again, can you take me to Funkytown instead?

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.30.08 | 1:33 pm

This week, it’s the Friday Financials Feud: American consumers battle the economy in a no-win game that strips their pocketbooks and sends them back to 1980 in a diesel-fueled Ford Granada. If only they’d work harder and spend more, the…

Friday Financials: The Memorial Weekend BBQ edition

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.23.08 | 12:24 pm

It’s officially the first weekend of summer. And for many that means get-togethers, beer, noisy neighbors, beer, DIY BBQs and OMG ROFL.

Ah, BBQs. They ain’t what they used to be. Cheap beer and brats are so…

Friday Financials: Hide your manholes and lock up that gas

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.17.08 | 1:48 pm

Today’s special edition of Friday Financials comes to you on Saturday. Yes, we’re a day late and a dollar short, so to speak. And a dollar can’t buy you anything these days. That’s why this very special…

Friday Financials: ‘The government paid for my weed, man!’

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.09.08 | 1:34 pm

Friday Financials presents the all-stimulus-check edition! Thanks to the generous act of the government, we’ve found folks so stimulated they’re spendin’ Gs on Gs (gas, gallons), droppin’ dime into mailboxes for Mr. Chase and Monsieur Bank of…

Friday Financials: ‘Brinner’ to the rescue!

By Molly Priesmeyer | 04.25.08 | 11:39 am

Rice hoarders. Flour stashers. Payday-loan growers. Five-dollar-bill swindlers.  No, you haven’t entered a time machine. It’s all just the past week in the good ol’ U.S. of A. “It’s fascinating; I don’t recall anything like…

Friday Financials: Even our identities are weakening!

By Molly Priesmeyer | 04.18.08 | 11:25 am

It’s Friday, which means it’s time to bring on the budgetary hope. In the past few weeks we’ve brought you the zinc lining in the dark, hanger-on clouds. However, the rising cost of scrap metal…

Friday Financials: We’re riskier than Detroit!

By Molly Priesmeyer | 04.11.08 | 9:47 am

Is it just us, or is time folding in on itself? It feels like November outside. The “Don’t Tase me, bro” video somehow reappeared to fight a water buffalo in a YouTube contest. And then…