A few days ago, Seth Godin posted a brilliant piece on his blog entitled Is Effort a Myth?In it, Seth addresses the issue of luck: And thats the key to the paradox of effort: While luck may be more ap...
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This is the first in a weekly series of articles providing a chapter-by-chapter in-depth book club reading of Benjamin Grahams investing classic The Intelligent Investor.Warren Buffett describes this ...
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During the summer of 2007, my wife and I purchased our first home.We spent tons of time doing homework and we are still very happy with our purchase, but as first time home buyers, there were simply s...
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Yesterday, I called my parents just to see how theyre doing.I usually give them a call two or three times a week and talk for most of an hour, mostly with my mother. During the conversation, we talked...
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Whenever I talk about being married or the six years in which I was dating my wife, people always ask for suggestions on how to put together an interesting, romantic date without blowing a lot of mone...
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I entered a fantasy baseball league this spring with the owners of several other personal finance blogs.While I did well (my pitching staff had almost 100 combined wins. led by Ryan Dempster, Johan Sa...
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One of the strongest memories I have from my childhood comes from when I was about seven years old.We were visiting my grandmother and I walked in on her praying out loud.She was hunched over with her...
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Whenever I tune into CNBC, Im usually blown away with the raw amount of data thrown at me.For the average person, theres no way to separate whats useful from what isnt, so people often rely on the pun...
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Whenever I write a post about careers, I usually receive a few comments or emails from readers who are heavily involved in entrepreneurship, chiding me for writing an article that wastes peoples time....
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Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many other things. Got a question? Ask i...
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Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book. Over and over again, I get encouraged by readers to review the hot personal finance book of the moment - the one that describes a...
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As Ive mentioned before, my family has a pretty good sized cash emergency fund, somewhere around nine months worth of living expenses.Having that amount of cash available is a very nice security blank...
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I dont comment on advertisements very often, and when I do, its usually to skewer it, as I did with Hyundais Dollars and Sense ad campaign.Advertisements are designed to sell products, after all, and ...
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One of the best concepts from Your Money or Your Life is that of the fulfillment curve.Basically, the idea argues that theres a sweet spot for anything that maximizes the fulfillment you get out of it...
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After writing my piece yesterday on fear and the economic situation, a very eloquent reader named Maggie wrote to me: I completely agree with your assessment on the economy, particularly if youre youn...
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Last Sunday, I posted a detailed review of Mark Forsters excellent time management book Do It Tomorrow.During the review, I mentioned that I had actually started using several of the ideas from that b...
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Over the last several days, many readers have asked for my take on the economic crisis.Im not an economist - my opinion is just that of an average person who has read a number of economics books and t...
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Many workers in the United States receive their paychecks every two weeks - many federal and state employees are in this group.At the same time, most bills and payments that people make are paid on a ...
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One book Ive had sitting on my shelf for more than a year, intending to eventually review it, is Benjamin Grahams The Intelligent Investor. This is perhaps the most important investing book in the pas...
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One of my friends bought a 2008 Cadillac CTS about a month ago.In order to pay for the $32,000 in debt he incurred, he needed to take out a sizable loan. The credit union he worked with gave him sever...
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