Personal Finance

If We Pay For our Daughter’s Wedding, What About Our Son?

July 18, 2011

My wife and I have interesting financial debates now and then and since we’re at a standstill I figured I’d pose it to all my friends at Darwin’s Money.  So, a little background: My wife and I paid for our own wedding. We received generous gifts from friends and family but our wedding wasn’t planned […]

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My Barber is a Multi-Millionaire – Here’s How He Did It

July 10, 2011

I’ve been going to the same barber for a few years and we usually get to talking about the economy, investments and such.  He doesn’t openly brag about being a multi-millionaire, but it’s plainly evident based on our discussions that he is one.  He’s somewhat a case study in The Millionaire Next Door: Surprising Secrets […]

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Are You Better Off Than Your Parents?

June 26, 2011

With the economy slowly recovering from a very rough recession and millions of Americans still out of work, if your perception is based on what you read in the mainstream media, it’s tough to think things are actually going well for this generation.  While joblessness is a temporary condition for most, the actual life you’ve […]

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Painful Pool Cost Overruns – Part II

June 23, 2011

A few weeks ago, I confessed my mortal sin to the blogosphere that as a Personal Finance writer, I’m putting in the dreaded swimming pool.  Swimming pools are lambasted for their lack of resale value and annual costs.  In our case, we have no intention of moving, our children are young enough to use it […]

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Can You Answer These 5 Basic Financial Questions? 90% of Americans Can’t

June 16, 2011

Stemming from last week’s post (Disturbing Study: Americans Are HORRIBLE With Money) on the abysmal study results highlighting America’s lack of financial literacy, here are the 5 questions they used to measure people.  Less than 10% of respondents got all of them right.  Are able to get all 5?  Come on, avid readers of Darwin’s […]

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Disturbing Study: Americans Are HORRIBLE With Money – The Stats

June 8, 2011

We all know Americans aren’t very good with their money (and evidently, citizens of many other countries aren’t either, but we’re REALLY bad), but this latest study puts it into perspective with disturbing statistics and approaches to measuring and reporting just how bad most Americans are at understanding the most basic financial principals that many […]

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