Can You Really Make Money On The Computer?

Two women are talking about their jobs: one is working a dead end job, making minimum wage and robbing Peter to pay Paul every month. Shut off notices are common in her home because she is just not making enough money to pay the bill. The other woman was once in the same position but she took a second job. Now she is making money on computer sites and actually catching up on her bills. She would never say she is rich, of course, but the pinch she feels is not as deep any more.

There are two extremes ready to tell you the "truth" about how to make money on computer and whether or not you can. The negative extreme says that you cannot make money on computer sites that they are all nothing but scams, hackers and vicious viruses ready to lay siege to your home computer.

To them, the success stories are nothing more than fluff, written by freelance writers and then placed in front of the naive public. They will tell you that you are wasting your time and effort by trying. They will not listen to anything contrary to their own opinion.

The other extreme suggests that you can not only make money on computer sites but that you can become a millionaire. They will say that you, without any skill or special talents can make more money than you could shake a fist at, all that you need is a home computer and an Internet connection.

While there are people who certainly do make a good bit of money through the computer, it is not always the way that you would assume. After all there are many ways to make money on computer. If you have heard of people who have made a couple thousand dollars a day, assume that they are day trading from home or doing something similar and not filling out a few online surveys to roll in the riches.

Back to the two women. If woman number one takes a part time job outside of her home, she will pay childcare costs, additional travel and other expenses. She will get less sleep and be under more stress so she might be more likely to get sick and miss days at one or both of her jobs.

All told, she might be losing money to take a second job. On the other hand, if she tries to make money on computer sites like her friend, she might actually get out from under the black cloud she is living in without additional strain.

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Secret Walmart Survey Shows Inflation Already Here

CNBC.com | November 11, 2010 | 02:59 PM EST

Inflation is coming, in this report WalMart study has prove that statement. Because this inflation maybe the value of money will surge and the rate maybe up force that slump. Let's talk about it and the report says...... Here they are....

There might not have been a second round of quantitative easing, if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke shopped at Walmart.

A new pricing survey of products sold at the world’s largest retailer showed a 0.6 percent price increase in just the last two months, according to MKM Partners. At that rate, prices would be close to four percent higher a year from now, double the Fed’s mandate.

The “inaugural price survey shows a small, but meaningful increase on an 86-item grocery basket,” said Patrick McKeever, MKM Partners analyst, in a note. Most of the items McKeever chose to track were every day items like food and detergent and made by national brands.

On November 3, the Fed announced its much-anticipated purchase of $600 billion in Treasury securities. An effort to keep market rates low since the central bank’s benchmark rate is already at zero. The Federal Open Market Committee’s statement said, “Currently, the unemployment rate is elevated, and measures of underlying inflation are somewhat low, relative to levels that the Committee judges to be consistent, over the longer run, with its dual mandate.”

But since that statement, interest rates have actually gone up, backfiring on a Fed chief who wants his quantitative easing to spark inflation of 2 percent annually. A moderate amount of inflation would be considered good for the economy. The problem is that inflation is already running well above a healthy level, investors said, Bernanke is just not looking in the right place, like a Walmart.

“I suspect that when the Chairman thinks about reflation he has a difficult time seeing any other asset besides real estate,” said Jim Iuorio of TJM Institutional Services. “Somehow the Fed thinks that if its not ‘wage driven’ inflation that it is somehow unimportant. It’s not unimportant to people who see everything they own (homes) going down in value and everything they need (food and energy) going up in price.”

Next week, the government is expected to say its official measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index, increased at a 0.3 percent annual rate, according to economists’ consensus estimate. Core CPI, excluding food and energy, is expected to climb just 0.1 percent.

The biggest dollar increase in McKeever’s survey was on a jug of Tide Original laundry detergent, manufactured by Procter & Gamble [ PG 64.33  -0.03 (-0.05%) ]. Both P&G and Kimberly-Clark [ KMB 62.02  -0.13 (-0.21%) ] gave tentative forecasts for this quarter on concern they won’t be able to pass rising input costs on to the consumer. They may have no choice.

Prices of cotton, silver wheat, soybeans, corn are all up big this year. Cotton futures are up the most, climbing 90 percent so far in 2010. The price of silver is up 63 percent.

The purpose of McKeever’s note was actually not to be a commentary on Fed policy. The retail analyst is just trying to find out if Walmart is subtlety-increasing prices without decreasing foot traffic. A process he would deem bullish the stock.

“If the pricing dynamic is shifting, as our survey suggests, this would lend some upside bias to our sales and earnings expectations,” said McKeever.

Bernanke keeping interest rates artificially low is sparking outrage among central bank chiefs around the world, who feel the U.S. is essentially exporting inflation.

China’s CPI surged 4.4% in October, according to figures released Thursday, higher than economists’ expected and up from a 3.6 percent annual reading in the month prior.

Said EmergingMoney.com Founder Tim Seymour, “Bernanke definitely must not shop at WalMart in China.”

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