| Personal finance is filled with tough decisions. Prepay the mortgage or invest the money? Pay down high interest debt first or use a debt snowball to tackle the small balances? Roth IRA or... | |
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| On Saturday, The New York Times published a brilliant chart illustrating the spending of the average American:“Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200... | |
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| Some of you are going will wake tomorrow to find the same post at GRS you saw briefly on Tuesday morning (the bike metaphor). You’ll be confused. “Is this a re-run?” you’ll... | |
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| “How much time do you spend blogging?” people often ask me.
“I don’t know,” I say. “A lot. Probably forty to sixty hours a week.” I’ve always wished I... | |
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| The problem with the standard financial advice is that it’s bad advice. You’ve been told to work hard, save money, get out of debt, live below your means, and invest in a well-diversified... | |
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| This piece originally appeared at Andrea’s Consultant Journal in a slightly different format.
Exercise is a funny thing. When you start a fitness regimen, you feel awful, especially if... | |
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| This is a guest post from Betsy Teutsch, who writes about socially responsible investing, savvy consuming, and sustainable living at Money Changes Things.
The practical side of me loves wedding... | |
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| I often ponder which direction I should take Get Rich Slowly. Build the site? Write a book? Convince that other J.D. Roth to develop a television show around the premise?
My latest harebrained idea... | |
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| On Saturday, I wrote about my transition from spender to saver. I mentioned that I’d recently peeked at the latest camera equipment. “I spent twenty minutes on Amazon, drooling over the... | |
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| Berkshire Hathaway held its annual shareholders meeting over the weekend. The company, run by Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett (the world’s richest man, and one of my personal heroes),... | |
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