Over the past month or so I have really neglected this blog. My apologies for doing so. I think it is probably a combination of the end of the semester, trying to do my own academic writing (which was sort of successful), and just the fact that I don’t think I have anything interesting to …
As Halloween rolled around I was thinking about what my weakness was for candy and the like (it is M&Ms I am a huge fan). For whatever reason that got me to thinking about what my biggest financial weakness is. On this blog I have talked about my biggest financial mistakes. However, I have never discussed …
So last week I wrote about how I had paid off our car and credit cards. It took out a good chunk of our cash flow, but it also got me thinking about larger financial goals. For example, I wrote about 4 years ago that I had wanted to be debt free by the time …
When I first started this blog I put out a post that I wanted to be debt free, except my mortgage by the time I was 45. As time went along and as I read more into personal finance I actually thought my original goal wasn’t a very good one. In fact, I started to focus …
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Every year I try to hit different financial goals. If you go look at my last post you will see that I didn’t do the best with my financial goals for 2017. I accomplished a couple of them depending on how you measure them, but I would like to do a better job in trying …
For the record I am NOT leaving my job. I have no plans on leaving my job. Certainly, there are things I don’t like about my job, but who doesn’t have that problem. Besides I kind of have a golden handcuffs situation at my current position. I have been promoted as high as I can …
I intend for this to be a fairly short post because I am much more interested in the answer to the question. And I hope you will post in the comments below. I have been thinking a lot about motivation lately. At a certain point what motivates us? What is the point to certain things …
I don’t know about you but I like thought experiments. I like thinking about different kinds of questions, dreaming about what you would do about them, and then how could you get there to make those questions occur. Earlier, I opined about what would you do with $100,000? I also like asking questions about how …
I am privileged to have a job where I get to argue for a living. It is great. I get to have some really in-depth intellectual debates with colleagues and students from across the country. I often get into very intense conversations with my colleagues at my university. In particular, I have a colleague where …
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A million dollars. Has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? A common goal in the United States among people saving for retirement is to reach that magical mythical figure of a million dollars. Frankly, when I hear a million dollars i immediately jump to the scene from the movie Austen Powers where Dr. Evil wants …