A while back Trent Hamm at The Simple Dollar invited me to do a guest post and I finally came up with an idea that I liked: Living off Capital. People who come from wealthy families learn how to live off capital. The rules are taught along with all the other things they learn from [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Economics category.
The downside of reasonable rules
The apartment complex where we live was built over the course of a decade or so, back in the 1960s. I don’t know what the building code and zoning rules said about things like building spacing, but I imagine that they left quite a bit up to the builder. Without rules that had to be [...]
Understanding Capital Costs up at US Airways
The reprint of my Wise Bread post Understanding Capital Costs is up at the US Airways Magazine site, in the section the Gist: Understanding Capital Costs.
My counterfeit post in The Forensic Teacher
This isn’t new news, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned before that my Wise Bread post How to Spot Counterfeit Money was reprinted in the handsome educational magazine The Forensic Teacher. It appeared in the Winter 2008 issue.
Fellow sf/pf writer Karawynn Long
Just heard from Karawynn Long, a fellow sf writer who’s also keeping a personal finance blog: Pocketmint. (With Catherine Shaffer, this makes three of us sf/pf writers–I wonder if there are any more?) Pocketmint is full of personal stories turned into larger lessons. I rather liked Downsizing appliances to save money, which tells the tale [...]
Lifehacker on my “stuff” post
Cool! Lifehacker picked up my post Stuff will never make you organized, as Save Money by Organizing Before Purchasing Organizational Tools. Lifehacker links to posts by other Wise Bread writers pretty often, but I can’t remember the last time they linked to one of mine.
Interviewed by Laura of Green Panda Treehouse
I did two interviews recently with Laura of Green Panda Treehouse: Up on Green Panda Treehouse is an interview where I talk about personal finance and the path I took to being a personal finance blogger. Up on Vega Baja Productions is an interview where I talk about the writing life and being a blogger. [...]
Profiled in the local paper
Christine Des Garennes of the New-Gazette did a profile on me and my writing for Wise Bread. It made the front page! Checks and Balances: Living large on a smaller budget. Although some of his blog posts are practical, such as “how to make sourdough bread and save a buck on every loaf,” Brewer’s “central [...]
Translated into Turkish
It seems that someone translated my Wise Bread post The line between frugal and crazy into Turkish: http://www.tutumluol.com/tutumlu-ile-cimri-arasindaki-ince-cizgi/ I’m kind of chuffed about this–translating a whole article is a lot of work; I’m pleased that there’s someone out there who thought this article was worth the trouble. I hope it’s a good translation–it’s kind of [...]
Two nice mentions
I picked up two nice mentions for Wise Bread articles. Lifehacker, in a piece by Jason Fitzpatrick, linked to my most recent post, Plan for your wants, in an article that they called Plan for your wants to make budgeting enjoyable. And, in a piece by Farhad Manjoo, Slate included my post Not the sort of [...]
