One of my old friends, Peter mentioned the other day that he got engaged. He’s 37 and she’s 28. They met about 4 years ago at a bar when he was somewhat inebriated but immediately hit it off. Peter isn’t exactly the most studly looking guy standing at 5′ 7″ with a belly hanging over […]
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You know America is great when a guy named Tim Geithner can evade $34,000 in taxes, get appointed to become the US Treasury Secretary puppet, AND make repeated claims in the press to raise taxes in 2011! Well of course it’s a good idea to raise taxes if you can evade them as craftily as
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As an early retiree since 2012, let me share with you the secret to early retirement. I originally wrote this post in 2010 when I was desperately seeking to leave my arduous finance job. I had been working in banking for 11 years and was completely burned out. Now that I have more than a
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California is broke. And some would argue the poor are bringing the poor and middle class down with them. Governor Schwarzenegger declared that some 200,000 California state workers are to receive minimum wage. That’s earnings of just $15,000 a year to help shore up the budget deficit. $15,000 is quite a salary cut from the
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The Simple Dollar book by Trent Hamm comes as close to a page turning thriller as a personal finance book can get! I read the book in a couple days when I went on a business trip. It is quite enjoyable how Trent integrates his personal life with personal finance teachings. If you’re a personal finance
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As of this moment, spending money makes me sick! I used to spend on average $1,300 a month on my one and only personal credit card, but for the past three consecutive months I’ve spent $2,500-$3,000! So what caused this sudden jump in consumerism you might wonder? Well, part of it was due to a
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“Every battle is won before it is ever fought.” – Art of War, Sun Tzu. This was the infamous line said by Gordon Gekko in the popular 1987 film Wall Street. Derived from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, a 2400-year-old Chinese text on military strategy, the teachings of this tactical mastermind have proven useful in
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Do you still live at home with mom & dad as an adult? Supposedly, almost 50% of those under 29 years old do. It seems like many more men are living at home thanks to the pandemic. This is a fun post about how to get girls if you still live at home with your
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You can make a lot of money blogging for a living. However, a lot of people don’t start a blog because they are too afraid of the work involved. I just want to say that if you plan to speak forever, you can blog forever. One of the best things about running your own blog
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Small business owners rock. The Bay Area is full of entrepreneurs and small business owners making the work work. The pandemic has made the value of online businesses more valuable. The simple reason is that you can’t shut down an online business! I originally wrote this post on August 26, 2010, a year and two
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