Archive for November, 2010
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Michael Masterson, author of Automatic Wealth, Seven Years to Seven Figures, and most recently The Pledge, is very rich. (Selling books is only part of why he's very rich.)
In his latest book he writes about reading effectively for maximum return on investment. In each piece of reading, it pays to ...
Posted in Business, Deals and Steals, Making Money, One Good Idea | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 29th, 2010
It's the holiday shopping season. Already. Again. Where does the time go? (Minute by minute, I'm told.)
Two thousand eleven will be upon us in only a month. Here are a few tasks that are worth doing to tie a financial bow on 2010:
Review your health and dental care ...
Posted in Basics, Organization, Personal Finance | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become a bit of a Roman circus of consumerism. Retailers competing for customers' wallets with "leaked" ads coming out weeks before the big day, crazy traffic jams, all manners of people fighting tryptophan-induced sloth to get up for bunker-buster deals and full-contact shopping.
Retailers ...
Posted in Commentary, Deals and Steals, Shopping | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
I received a complimentary copy of Kimberly Palmer's new book Generation Earn. It is subtitled "The Young Professional's Guide to Spending, Investing, and Giving Back." I would place my age group (late thirties) above the mean age of the typical person to whom she's addressing the book, but not outside ...
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