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Generation Y Isn’t Doing So Well With Retirement Saving
10 October 2006Even gimmicks, clever advertising, and common sense don’t seem to be able to convince people in this age group to save. Yahoo has the details:
It’s no small feat getting young people — worried more about student loans, credit-card debt and Saturday night — to save for retirement. Only about a third of those in the [...]
Cavity Alert – Does Toothpaste Really Stop Tooth Decay?
5 October 2006The Freakonomics Blog, which is sort of just an ecclectic blog about economics, game theory, and other random things the authors post about, has a post on a conversation with a dentist about increasing rates of tooth decay among the middle-aged. He says that most of the toothpaste claims about stopping cavities and whitening teeth [...]
What Makes Rich People Rich?
24 September 2006CNN has a very interesting series of articles on their web site by a journalist who went into extremely wealthy areas and just started wandering around knocking on people’s doors, asking them how they’d been able to get to that point in their lives. It’s in five parts: part one, part two, part three, part [...]
Carnivals 9/19/06
19 September 2006Today Free the Drones is participating in the following carnivals:
Festival of Frugality at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
Carnivals 9/18/2006
18 September 2006Today Free the Drones is participating in the following carnivals:
Carnival of Personal Finance at Free Money Finance
Tips to Get A Real Person On Customer Service Phone Lines
13 September 2006There’s a great web site I ran across called Get Human. It’s entirely dedicated to collecting tips and tricks for getting past those automated phone services that make you run through hoops over and over again before you can actually speak to a person. It turns out that many of them have little tricks that [...]
The “Latte Factor” – Cutting Debt By Cutting Out the Little Expenses
3 September 2006This MSNBC article has a name for the little expenses that tend to balloon into bigger ones over long periods of time – the “latte factor,” after people who spend $3 a day on coffee, only to realize on examination that they’re spending a thousand bucks a year on that daily indulgence. The article only [...]
HYIP and Autosurfing – Modern Ponzi Investment Schemes
2 September 2006Many people who are just getting into investing for retirement will do generic searches on the Internet trying to find information on investing, educational sites, or different business opportunities. While there’s a lot of good stuff out there, there’s also a lot of people interested only in taking money from you. And they aren’t just [...]
Tips on Getting a Promotion in Your Job
27 August 2006Dumb Little Man has posted 20 tips that got him a promotion in his IT job, and they’re anything but dumb. I don’t know if it’s just a techie thing, but one of my friends used a very similar approach to become Director of Software Development at his company. They give him huge raises and [...]
Figuring Out How Much You Need To Save Per Year
26 August 2006The other day I did a brief analysis of how much a person at age 24 would need to save per year to get a nice nest egg come retirement. I mentioned that I did it using Excel. Well, if you’ve got Microsoft Excel yourself, I’ve made an easy to use spreadsheet that you can [...]