Here are links to several of my favorite recent personal finance articles: Most Ordinary Americans in 2016 are Richer than Was John D. Rockefeller in 1916 by Don Bourdreaux at Café Hayek I enjoyed the fascinating thought experiment suggested by this article: “What is the minimum amount of money that you would demand in exchange…
Here are links to several of my favorite recent personal finance articles: The Best Gift My Emergency Fund Has Ever Given Me by Cait Flanders In this courageous article Cait talks about making the decision to get help dealing with her anxiety after many years of struggling with it on her own. Although this was a…
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.” – John Stuart Mill I am incredibly blessed and yet I still often struggle with discontent and the desire for more. I have recently found some stories, quotes, and ideas on this topic that have helped me,…
Here are links to several of my favorite recent personal finance articles: Let Me Convince You to Save Money by Morgan Housel @ Collaborative Fund “Wealth is just the accumulated leftovers after you spend what you take in. And since you can build wealth without a high income but have no chance without a high…
Here are links to several of my favorite recent personal finance articles: Learning About Money from Mr. & Mrs. Miser by The Money Wizard at My Money Wizard I really enjoyed getting to know Mr. & Mrs. Miser in this article and I loved the plot twist at the end of the story. It turns…
Cliché: A trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, and impact by long overuse. Shay Carl was named by Forbes as one of the most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube. But Shay had a problem. He was badly overweight. Seeing an…
Here are links to several of my favorite recent personal finance articles: Warren Buffett Says Investors Should Stick With Index Funds by Trevor Hunnicutt at Fox Business I have long been a fan of index funds, not only for their simplicity but also for their long-term performance. As Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson states,…
Dallin H. Oaks tells a story I enjoy about two men who formed a partnership to sell watermelons. They obtained a truck and paid a farmer $1 each for enough melons to fill it up. Then they drove the truck to a stand they had built by the side of a busy road where they sold…
