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08/30/08 // Link:
Free Money Finance: Why I Like Index Funds, Part 3 I don’t really understand investing. Like at all. But I’ve been doing some research on the internets and index funds seem like pretty good way to go, at least for beginners. Now I just need some money to invest….continue reading »
02/26/08 // Link:
Debunking ‘Third-World’ Myths A fantastic talk by Hans Rosling from the TED conference archives. Rosling does a nice job of debunks some myths about the so-called “developing world.” But really what carries the point home is the stunning animation software developed by Rosling’s …continue reading »
02/20/08 // Link:
Tom Coates on the One Laptop Per Child Project By far the best piece of writing on the One Laptop Per Child project that I’ve run across (my own included). I’ve been following this project for over a year now (partly because of my job at Wired, but also …continue reading »
10/17/07 // Link:
Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty Micro-lending is something I’ve posted about before, but lately I’ve been considering actually doing it. It interests me because its a chance to invest in something on the community scale. Investing in large corporations makes me uncomfortable on a number …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
20 Great Nuggets of Personal Finance Advice Some great financial advice as always from the Get Rich Slowly blog. Here’s the top five: Be humble. “When you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — that is knowledge.” — Confucius Take …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
How to Get Paid to Live Overseas People are always asking me how to go about traveling around the world. The answer quite simply is to save money. Westerners are doubly fortunate because our currencies are generally stronger than the rest of the world (though the dollar …continue reading »
08/14/07 // Link:
Debtor Nation Great piece in the Harvard Magazine about something that’s always puzzled me… consumerism. I’ve long wondered exactly how American culture can continue to buy and buy and buy, it seems like eventually we’ll run out of stuff to buy and …continue reading »
08/04/07 // Link:
The Realities of Home-Ownership Get Rich Slowly has an interesting breakdown of the cost of buying a house, which makes renting seem not necessarily that bad. Of course it also does some things like take the extra money for the mortgage payment versus rent …continue reading »
01/30/07 // Link:
Get Rich Slowly Gardening 101: Plan Today for Summer Success Raising your own berries, fruits, and vegetables is a fun and rewarding way to save money. Our grocery bills drop dramatically during harvest season, and the food cannot be beat. (I love our salsa recipe.) But my wife notes, “February …continue reading »
12/29/06 // Link:
Throw Away your TV and Save a Bundle An hour of television carries about twenty minutes of commercials. At thirty seconds per commercial, that?s forty ads an hour. Five hours of television each day would expose you to around 250 ads.continue reading »
12/12/06 // Link:
Craigslist Meets the Capitalists Mr. Schachter still did not seem to understand. How about running AdSense ads from Google? Craigslist has considered that, Mr. Buckmaster said. They even crunched the numbers, which were “quite staggering.” But users haven?t expressed an interest in seeing ads, …continue reading »
11/28/06 // Link:
Frontline: Secret History of the Credit Card “It’s one of the most wonderful times of the year for the banking industry’s most lucrative business: credit cards. In the coming weeks, millions of Americans will reach into their wallets and use plastic to buy an estimated $100 billion …continue reading »
08/03/06 // Link:
Brown-Bag Your Way To Half a Million How much do you spend eating out?continue reading »
08/03/06 // Link:
Pay off your house in three years I’ve always said that if I actually made any money I wouldn’t live any different than I do now, which would allow me to do things like what this couple did. It’s the change in lifestyle that comes with a …continue reading »

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