Author: Dave @ Accidental FIRE
The Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies has released its 2019 report into the State of the Nation’s Housing. The report includes four awesome interactive maps illustrating key findings from the study. Since I’m a data nerd I dug...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the U.S. Federal Agency responsible for measuring and reporting job market activity. This includes unemployment, inflation data, and other key measures. When you hear a CNBC host cite U.S. unemployment figures, those numbers...
We stood there on the sidewalk of the busy road, bikes at our side. He was puking all over the place, coughing and heaving, hands on his knees. “Seriously, you can go, I’ll be all right. I just don’t know...
WASHINGTON D.C. – Most Americans achieve their highest ability to understand money in the anxious seconds when deciding between a cup or cone and the number of scoops they desire at the ice cream shop, according to a new study. ...
When I was in grade school I had a talent for drawing. Or so that’s how my Mother dutifully described it at least. I didn’t really agree, and was always upset at what I put on paper. But there was...
It was 1980, and John Lennon was finally going to release a new album. I wasn’t even 10 yet, but the Beatles were a core part of my life. Lennon had been aloof for a long time, not recording. The...
In the early 1990’s I was fresh out of college and lucky to score a pretty low paying job at a small dotcom start up. With unemployment at 7.5% I took what I got and didn’t have the luxury of...
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We had been climbing for almost 4 hours and the most dangerous parts were done. Those dangerous parts were why we came in the first place – 3 beautiful pitches of vertical ice attached to the mountain and glistening in...
I’m financially independent. If I wanted to I could totally separate from my job and I’m 99.9% sure I’d never run out of money. Ever. And in case you’re wondering, I wouldn’t even have to withdrawal 4% anually to make...
We were lost. Well, not entirely lost. We were trying to get to the rental car return and departure gates at Luxembourg airport, and failing. I say we weren’t entirely lost because we could see the airport. “Dude”, I said...
If you work a white collar job in front of a computer like I have most of my career, you likely sit for most of the day. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard how sitting too much is bad...
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