“The Debt” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
This poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar is from “Lyrics of Love and Laughter” (1913). The Debt This is the debt I pay Just for one […]
Doug's Methods of Saving Money
This poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar is from “Lyrics of Love and Laughter” (1913). The Debt This is the debt I pay Just for one […]
Many people swear by the “snowball” method of paying off debt. It works — I won’t dispute it. But there’s a slight modification that can […]
A year ago I wrote a post about my net worth and the convenience of having it automatically calculated in an online financial tracker. Reminder: […]
Data from the Federal Reserve show that Americans owe close to 1,000 billion dollars of revolving debt* (which I’ll refer to as credit-card debt). Dividing the […]
Albert Einstein probably never said, “Compound interest … one of man’s greatest inventions.” “The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.” “Compound interest […]
It makes me sad and angry to read, “Back in 2007, the couple took a $500 car-title loan that mushroomed into a $3,000 headache”, in […]
You’ve probably experienced how much more real something is when you’re seeing it for yourself instead of just knowing about it by reading about it or […]
“Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt” — Benjamin Franklin wrote in “Poor Richard’s Almanac”.
One of the fun things about live bluegrass music performances is that it seems to be standard practice for bluegrass musicians to include jokes and […]
I got my first credit card before the internet era began, before credit-card issuers had websites that could be used to check balances and make payments. […]
Years ago when I was in college — a time when my friends and I were excited to get our first credit cards — a […]