Financial Geekery

Seriously? OK, I get that the US and Europe are having a rough time of it. Yes, we have a ton of debt. Yes, our politicians are being,...

(First off, I’d like to apologize to the grammar nazis who wince whenever someone verbs nouns. Welcome to twenty-first century English,...

Last night’s workshop session was on budgets and budgeting tools, a whirlwind tour on How To Make A Budget That Actually Works. Fun times...

Last night I talked a lot about the key to managing your bills: automation. We had some fun going step-by-step through the process of...

Last night, among other things, we talked about a fun little concept that’s pretty familiar to financial geeks: the Value Curve. The idea...

As a follow-on to last week’s post, I’d like to talk about yet another alternate view of finance — this time, that held by Islam, as...

Trust in the financial industry has waned in the past few years, and not without good reason. When an institution is driven entirely by...

A fellow financial geek asked a very good question about my savings post: what about CD laddering? Fair question! CD laddering is a...

You want a change. Maybe you want to lose weight. Or get a girlfriend. Or be more productive at work. Or maybe — because this is a...

So you’ve got some cash on hand that you’re not going to spend right away. It’s a nice feeling, isn’t it? Maybe you’re saving up to pay...