How to Overcome or Avoid a Quarter-Life Crisis

August 31, 2011

The human body does a tremendous job of regulating itself. When you haven’t gotten enough sleep, your eyes get heavy. When you’re dehydrated, your mouth becomes dry. When you have a virus, your body creates white blood cells. Whenever something is “out of control” your body is working to fix it. This is also true [...]

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Reader Mailbag: Macroeconomics, Retirement Goals, Mint’s Safety, T. Rowe Price vs. Vanguard, and Barry Bond’s Head

August 29, 2011

Welcome to my  long overdue reader mailbag. I’ve received tremendous questions lately from subscribers of the newsletter that I would like to share for everyone. Enjoy! What can I do to protect myself from the decisions that others make (the debt ceiling fiasco makes me recognize a certain lack of control).  I’d pay for a [...]

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Citi Advantage Credit Card Review

August 26, 2011

I recently added the Citi® Gold / AAdvantage® World MasterCard® to my wallet. This post explains my thought process of why I choose this card over others. As well as, how I plan to use this card in the future. Let’s start with the advantages. Advantages | Citi Advantage Credit Card Review The reason I applied for [...]

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My Personal Asset Allocation

August 24, 2011

This post reveals more about my personal finances, than I ever thought I would share publicly. I’m going to share with you the location of my investments and the percentage that these investments make up of my net worth. I always enjoy learning from real world examples, so I hope the reasoning behind my investments, can [...]

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Cause and Effect

August 22, 2011

Newton’s law of motions states, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Another way to explain Newton’s Law is that every Cause has an Effect. The decisions or actions we take today, no matter how small, have consequences. Nobody wakes up one day and decides that they want to be poor. Being poor is [...]

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