October 2006


This is a guest entry from Israel Lopez. This weekend I visited a friend at San Francisco State University. On Saturday, my friend and I had lunch downtown. At about 2pm, we parked my car about 1-1/2 blocks from the restaurant. We had some good sushi. We were gone from the car for maybe an [...]

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It’s Halloween — time for a scary, morbid subject. Young adults don’t think about wills. The typical person graduates from college, gets a job, marries his sweetheart, has children, and never considers a will until he turns fifty. But not everyone lives to be fifty. You can’t always see death coming. A will is for [...]

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Wisdom From Wenchypoo: Scam-Proof Yourself to Eliminate Risk Smart people can still be the victims of scams. In fact, often smart people are most easily scammed because they have too much confidence in their ability to not be scammed. (tags: scams phishing identitytheft) Study: Saving for retirement loses ground to debt, living expenses – USATODAY.com [...]

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And now for something completely different… JLP posted a fun question at All Things Financial: “Is there an opening paragraph or two of a particular book that stands out to you?” JLP cites the intro to M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled as his favorite: Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one [...]

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