They’re talking… is America listening?
With the defection of Arlen Specter to the land of Democrats and a lack of clear leadership aside from cartoonish entertainers, the Republican Party needs to sit down and have serious talk… with America. At least I’ll give them this: Republicans tend to see the free market value of products like [...]
Since I was feeling rather more flush with cash than usual, I decided to make an extra payment on my mortgage this month. It was so easy! I have it set up for electronic payment from my bank anyway, and if I send them an amount that doesn’t match the monthly payment exactly to the [...]
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Today is the last day of Financial Literacy Month. To tie everything together, I thought it would be fun to share an interview my real millionaire next door, a man we’ll call John. He used the basic tenets of money management to build wealth and to retire early. Here’s how I described John when I [...]
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I’d been wondering lately what Mortimer was up to. Since being laid off at the end of February, he’d only managed to go on one interview. I tried to hook him up with a job at my company that would have been perfect, but the position ended up being down-graded and they thought he was [...]
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Coming clean right off the bat: I can’t personally teach you how to haggle or negotiate anything. It terrifies me almost as much as falling in love or doing improv theater. But at least I’m not alone.
Amy Reiter over at Salon.com posted a great article yesterday called “How I learned to haggle”, and while I [...]
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