Are you a man if you cannot take care of your family? Are you noble, if you do not have a job and let your wife slave away at the office, so you can latch onto her healthcare insurance, and eat the bacon she brings home? Hell yeah brothers! Stay at home men of the […]
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Back in July of 2010, I wrote a post entitled, “Am I Living In A Parallel Universe?” discussing the disconnect between the robustness on the ground in San Francisco and the incredibly negative mood by the mass media. Back then, I kept thinking “the economy is back, baby,” but nobody seemed to agree. Even my
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Is discrimination OK? Hell no it’s not OK! I’ve been discriminated against ever since I came to America in 1995 and I’ve had enough. I think many people have had enough in 2020+. On Wednesday, January 18th large internet companies such as Wikipedia blacked out their sites in protest of the Stop Piracy Act Bill
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Happy New Year Everyone! The Dow closed up 5.5% in 2011 vs. a prediction of up only 5%. A 50 basis points differential is a critical error that needs to be rectified if I want to get beyond a “B” grade given to me by a reader. Apologies for my negligence! At least the direction
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Here is my Financial Samurai 2011 predictions review. It’s trippy reviewing my 2011 predictions 10 years later in 2021. But here we are! On January 2, 2011 I came up with the below predictions for 2011. The idea behind making predictions is to test the mind and exercise some logic. It’s important that everyone have
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The real estate industry is shady. From shady appraisers to stubbornly high commissions even after huge improvements online. The good thing about a shady industry, however, is that you can deploy various tactics to get yourself a better deal. The appraiser came out to my rental the other weekend and spent a total of 3
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Here are the top 5 hits and misses for 2011. I started Financial Samurai in 2009. As we come to the end of the year, now is the time for reflection. I generally don’t have many regrets because what’s the point? I’m an optimist who likes to keep moving forward. In fact, I have no
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My tennis buddies and I decided to arrange a late-night tennis match from 8pm-10pm and go out drinking afterwards. Whichever doubles team loses pays for beers all night long. It’s a good system that brings out the competitiveness and trash-talking in us. Besides, we feel less guilty drinking heavily if we exercise first! My partner
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According to First Data, credit card usage was up 8.2% YoY in 1Q2011, 9% YoY in 2Q2015, and 10.6% YoY in 3Q. If those aren’t healthy signs of consumers spending again, I don’t know what is. What’s a little more shocking is that the latest November industry-wide car sales figures are up 14% YoY to
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In my fiscally irresponsible state of California, Governor Jerry Brown (D) is proposing raising taxes on people making over $250,000 a year. According to the SF Chronicle, 65% of those polled believe this is a great idea. Well No Duh useless poll and uninsightful newspaper. Most people or households don’t make more than $250,000 a
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