Earn What You Spend

This has been making the rounds for a while now, but I only got around to watching it last night.
My recommendation to you: watch it - it’s worth your time.  Although I feel like I already understood much of what has happened in this current crisis, there were a number of points and clarifications here that I [...]

James Scurlock had some (bizarre) criticism of financial guru and TV personality Suze Orman a few days ago.  It’s quite critical: 
How a bottle-blond former waitress and self-described “55-year-old virgin” with a taste for the good life became the financial messiah for millions of Americans might be a fun Lifetime original movie. Why the masses continue to invest [...]

The impetus for me to write about finance was simple -our society has a clear lack of basic financial literacy.  I want to do something to address this, and the first step in doing so is for me to flesh out my philosophy and understanding of the situation by blogging.  Then, I believe, I will [...]

It’s hard to process all the disconcerting news we’ve had in the past few months, but this headline in particular caught my eye: the United States economy lost 159,000 jobs in the month of September alone, which was quickly identified as the worst number of this sort in over five years.

Unemployment Rate, September 2008

Education Level
Percentage

Less [...]