Last summer in Stapleton Colorado three little boys decided to set up a lemonade stand. Better still, they decided to give all proceeds to a five year old boy in Indonesia using a charity called Compassion International. The kids running the stand...
Have you heard of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)? It was created under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) and stood up in July of 2011. The Dodd-Frank Act was passed in response to...
I posted an info-graphic a little while back as a companion piece to my guest post on Get Rich Slowly. I love it when readers comment, especially when they write something that makes me stop and think. Steveark left me...
One of the core tenants of the financial independence movement is to avoid lifestyle inflation. Investopedia defines lifestyle inflation as “increasing one’s spending when income goes up”. I don’t think that’s the best definition since many people increase their spending even when...
I have some bad news for you. When you pony up your money for a cold one at the bar or take home a 12 pack for the game, much of what your paying goes to tax, not beer. According...
If you’re new to my story, I reached financial independence in my mid 40’s. I started investing money in the stock market in the mid 1990’s after reading Money magazine and realizing mutual funds were pretty simple and easy. The...
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I’m a pretty pragmatic person. I was always good at math and tend to look at things quantitatively. So when I heard about a book about happiness written by the Chief Business Officer of Google X and a tech nerd,...
Big news everyone – I have a guest post today on Get Rich Slowly!! GRS is one of THE original and best blogs in the personal finance space, and J.D. Roth is on the proverbial Mount Rushmore of the community. ...
The average FICO credit score in America hit 704 in September 2018, the first time it’s topped 700 since April 2017. FICO released a detailed report showing the slow and steady march upward of the average credit score over the...
If you’re not familiar with my story, I’m financially independent and currently semi-retired from my W2 job. I work 20 hours a week and have taken back the other 20 to do as I wish. Flash back 21 years ago...
Martin Luther King Day will be celebrated this coming Monday in America. It’s a federal government holiday, so I’ll be off. As a semi-retired and semi-quasi-professional blogger and graphic artist, I wasn’t planning on working anyway. Sadly, many companies in...
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