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They Told Me Don’t You Ever Come Around Here
Don’t Wanna Pay It Back, You Better Disappear
The Numbers’ In The Red And You Owe More Than You Earn
So Budget, Just Budget
[2nd Verse]
You Better Sing, You Better Do What You Can
Don’t Wanna See No Shrink, Don’t Meet the Repo Man
You Wanna Be Young, Better Save What You [...]
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Did you see UN-BROKE: What You Need To Know About Money On ABC Friday night? Starring Seth Green, Samuel L. Jackson and Christian Slater, the one-time special purports to help educate us (or those who don’t know) about personal finance. We can call it the celebrification of personal finance.
I didn’t catch it on TV, but [...]
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So, we’re in a prolonged recession. Jobs for this year’s college graduates are supposedly all going to be at a standstill, causing new grads to have to settle for working in a field other than the one they did their Bachelor’s in or — gasp! — even taking a pay cut to work in their [...]
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What?! A mental emergency fund? Yes; this is an analogy I thought of while walking on campus today. Just as we want to have a savings fund large enough to be able to handle seriously unexpected expenses, accidents, and the unfortunate events of our lives, so too we need to have some sort of psychological [...]
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Anyone who’s ever lived solely off part-time work, contracting, scholarships, royalties, freelance or other means of self-employment knows what it’s like to not receive a steady paycheck. You might be financially free by definition, but you still might not be bringing in a steady paycheck. Royalties from books through a traditional publisher might only reach [...]
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It’s not taking out a mortgage. It’s not marriage. It’s not even having kids.
It’s time.
The most important financial decision I would argue you can make – one that is inherently irreversible – is when you actually start investing for your future.
I’m sure that no one can reach age 25 in North America without being exposed [...]
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The recent news emphasis on the swine influenza outbreak in Mexico has got me thinking again about the nature of emergencies in our lives. We often speak of setting up an emergency fund as a basic of financial planning – and I’m not disagreeing with that – but we also usually tend to lump a [...]
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