Financial Geekery

Next week is the beginning of my second Summer Personal Finance Workshop Series, so I’d like to take some time in this post to talk about...

So in last week’s post I introduced you to the concepts introduced by Stephen Pollan’s “Die Broke”: quit today, pay cash, never retire,...

“Die broke.” This is the central idea behind a book of the same name written several years ago by Stephen Pollan — and it’s a good one....

If you’re anything like me, you pine for the days when rebates and gifts came in the form of simple checks. Nowadays, however, it’s all...

Remember all that financial stuff you’ve been thinking about doing? You know, like updating your credit report, figuring out when the...

So I gave you a summary of what ESPP’s were all about, then went into detail on the intricacies of ESPP’s and taxes. Now: what exactly...

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Employee Stock Purchase Plans are, like much in the stock-related world, a double-edged sword. Depending on how you swing them, they can...

99% of the time, when people talk about investing, they talk about investment choices. What are you investing in? What do you buy or...

In case there was every any doubt: investing is not an exact science. After all, it depends quite literally on predicting the future, and...