Feb 11 2010
So Mrs. Brows and I spent last Saturday working on our finances, fixing our budget for this year, and trying to predict the future. In the process, we started talking about our retirement savings strategies.
Continue reading “Retirement Planning: To Roth or Not to Roth”
Dec 02 2009
Those who really know me might know that I’m a tight wad. On the exterior, yes, I seem like a pretty cool cat when it comes to money, but deep down nothing makes me more gleefully giggle with joy than money miser’d away in the bank. In Brazil, I’m known as a “mao de vaca.” Literally translated, that’s “hand of a cow”. Just let that imagery work for you…
Oct 13 2009
You know it’s gonna be a bad month when you log into Mint and see this graph for your monthly spending:
That is what a small vacation, a huge car repair, new tires, and a couple trips to wal-mart will do to your monthly cash flow… 
I guess it could be worse…
1. I could be FavUnc and see that bar getting longer and more negative with every pre-wedding month…
2. I could be the Federal Government and not have seen that bar anywhere near the 0 mark for the last 75 years.
I suppose I could always raise my wife’s taxes for being married to me… who says I am “tight”?
Sep 12 2009
I ran across this guy, Peter Schiff, yesterday, and he makes so much sense it’s a little scary. He is one of the only economists who predicted an economic crash due to the housing bubble.
Aug 21 2009
As a nation, we are now deeply embroiled in a debate about the future of our health care industry. My next few posts are going to be delving into the grimy details of this debate with two goals:
I want to get it #1 nailed down, first, before we get into #2. Perhaps the single most frustrating thing is to discuss a topic when not everyone in the room is coming from a similar basic understanding of the actual state of affairs…
So here we go…
Jul 27 2009
Retail has always had catchy slogans to help train the masses of employees and customers they try to get to buy stuff. I’m thinking:
Well, I’m here to inform you that there’s a new strategy out there. It must be due to the recent recession, so I’m calling it Recession Strategy 09 or RS09 for short. It appears to be: “We pay you to shop here!”
Three examples from this past weekend:
Jun 01 2009
Some economists are starting to get antsy for the end of this bagel (recession). Many are already saying that they see the light at the end of the tunnel. Many are already saying that by the end of the year we will have an official end to the bagel (positive GDP growth).
Which led me to think… what kind of major event would happen which would stimulate this country’s economy out of such a severe recessional slump?
