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  Why Invest? Sometimes, people ask me: Why invest? Well, I thought of a great answer, and I wanted to write it down so I don’t forget. No...

The Best Way to Wealth A Tweet recently caught my eye: “One of the best ways to get rich is to be born into a rich family.” I politely di...

  Gold: The Once and Future Money by Nathan Lewis A Froogal Stoodent review Seventh in a series of book reviews by The Froogal Stoodent If ...

What will happen to my money when I die? If I'm involved  in a serious accident,  what will happen to me? Will my family be burdene...

I don't normally watch a ton of YouTube videos, because there are too many time-wasters out there. But this video made a ton of great po...

Blog roundup/interesting links May 2020 A great summary of the FIRE movement: https://www.thousandaire.com/its-all-about-creating-incom...

Blog roundup Feb 2020 A great guest post from Jillian of Montana Money Adventures:  https://jlcollinsnh.com/2019/01/08/i-wanted-the-unre...

Links It's been a while since I posted a financial blog roundup! Since I've been sitting on this one for several months, it'...

Government and Your Money I'm no fan of big government , but people often wonder: can the federal government's actions really ...

How Renting —Not Buying a House —Can Make You Rich People always say that buying a house is an 'investment,' rather than 'th...

Should You Invest In Bitcoin? I've spent a while reading about Bitcoin, blockchain, and the underlying philosophy of cryptocurrenci...

Investing: The Evidence Want to get rich from investing? Perhaps you've tried to read articles like this one and said, "N...

The 15 (or so) Best Articles For Your Financial Health, September 2017 Is frugality an idol for some people? http://katesmalley.com/goo...

The 5 Money Books You MUST Read! There are self-help books (and podcasts and so forth) on every conceivable topic! So, as you might ex...

Pining for football during the extended no-football drought? Here are a couple links to topics related to both the NFL (to address your cra...

Links for May 2017 -It's wise to create multiple sources of income, so that you're not held hostage by a single source: http://r...

Should you trust the stock market? Pt II Check out Part I here What if I told you there is a surefire way to invest in winners? Wha...

Trick Yourself Out of Debt As this tragic story demonstrates, debt can have life-shattering consequences. Seriously, follow that link...

The first guest post to be featured on my site! Dylan of http://www.thecollegecapitalist.com offered to write a guest post reviewing some...

Due to severe budget problems, Puerto Rico will have to slash its budget, as announced in February 2017 (see http://www.businessinsider.com/...