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- Understanding fundamental and technical analysis (11 comments)
This guest post is by GRS reader Russell Kith, an avid value investor, fan of Warren Buffett and personal finance blogger. You can find more of his articles on investing on his blog, Money Street Smar...Read more »
- Invest like Warren Buffett… but not really (29 comments)
This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement service. If you want peopl...Read more »
- Reader Story: Dividends or bust: Thinking critically about investment (53 comments)
This is shared by Steven Hogan (Twitter @stevehlaw), who has learned a few things about investing that he wanted to share. This story is part of our Reader Stories series. Some stories contain genera...Read more »
- What IS Financial Responsibility? (178 comments)
This article is from new staff writer Honey Smith. "Be Responsible. Take responsibility for your actions." It sounds simple, right? But what responsibility means to me has changed over the cours...Read more »
- Getting Rich Slowly vs. Taking Financial Risks (37 comments)
For the next week (or two), we'll be sharing "audition" pieces from folks interested in being new staff writers at Get Rich Slowly. Your job is to let us know what you think of each of these writers. ...Read more »
- How Safe Is Your Cash? (51 comments)
This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new...Read more »
- Can Money Buy Freedom? (124 comments)
On Saturday, my friend Tyler hosted a blog meetup. I first met Tyler several years ago. He was a GRS reader who dropped me a line to see if I'd meet him for dinner. I said "yes" — as I almost...Read more »
- America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Wealth (187 comments)
I was on the road for the past two months, first in Chicago, and then in Bolivia and Peru. As always happens, one of the side effects of travel is that I've been living in a media vacuum. For the past...Read more »
- How to Buy a Pension with a Lifetime Annuity (43 comments)
This is a guest post from Mike Piper, a long-time GRS reader and the author of Oblivious Investor, where he explains how exciting things like 401k rollovers and tax brackets work. Previously at GRS, P...Read more »
- Reader Story: Saving for Retirement with More Than Mutual Funds (66 comments)
This guest post from Randy is part of the "reader stories" feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success — o...Read more »
- Remember to Value Your Time (83 comments)
I can't believe that Get Rich Slowly is going to link to two different xkcd comics within a single month, but it's true. Genevieve dropped a line to point out this recent gem about one of the problems...Read more »
- An Introduction to Arbitrage: Using Craigslist to Make a Living (146 comments)
On Saturday, I drove from Portland to Eugene to meet Jacob from Early Retirement Extreme. He's on a mini road trip from the Bay Area, scouting Oregon for a place to live. Along with a few other ERE re...Read more »
- Extreme Early Retirement in Practice: How Two People Did It (158 comments)
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He also has a blog, Twitterin...Read more »
- Every Purchase Is a Trade-Off (76 comments)
While I was digging out of debt, I cut back on my comic book habit. I'd been spending a mind-boggling $250 every month on comics — most of which I bought in the form of hard-bound compilations &...Read more »
- How to Spend Your Money (256 comments)
Yesterday, as I was otherwise occupied (I spent five hours writing a post about programmable thermostats, a post nobody will even like!), the conversation on Donna Freedman's article got a little cran...Read more »
- You Can Have It All (Just Not All At Once) (63 comments)
This post is from new GRS staff writer Donna Freedman. Donna writes the Living With Less personal finance column for MSN Money, and writes about frugality and intentional living at Surviving And Thriv...Read more »
- The Time Value of Money (or Why 25 Years of Cable TV Doesn’t Cost as Much as You Think) (31 comments)
This guest post is from Stephen Popick, a government economist and founder of Coffeecents.org, a personal finance program for young adults. Popick is the long-time administrator of the Get Rich Slowly...Read more »
- In Praise of Work-Life Balance (47 comments)
I went running with my friend Dan the other day. As we ran, we chatted. "You know, J.D.," he said. "It seems like you have the perfect life." I laughed. I think that Dan seems to have the perfect l...Read more »
- Back to Basics (84 comments)
"You know, you've been spending a lot of money lately," Kris told me the other day. I'd just returned from yet another shopping trip to REI. "I have?" I asked. "Yes," she said. "Can't you tell?"...Read more »
- Cheap Things You Never Use Are No Bargain (70 comments)
A couple of months ago, I shared some of the things I choose to spend my money on now that I've paid off my debts, saved for emergencies, and am funding my retirement. Most folks seemed to get my mess...Read more »
- Why Now is the Time to Think Long-Term (37 comments)
This is a guest post from Philip Brewer of Wise Bread. Brewer also writes science-fiction and fantasy stories. Previously at GRS, he shared how to live a rich life on a budget. As a saver, I have a...Read more »
- Life After Debt: What It’s Like in the Third Stage of Personal Finance (245 comments)
I paid off the last of my debt in 2007, quit my day job in 2008, and have been working to build wealth ever since. As I wrote early last year, I'm in the Third Stage of personal finance: I've paid off...Read more »
- How Do You Define Financial Freedom? (70 comments)
This post is from Kent Thune. Kent urges and guides readers to place meaning and purpose before money and planning at his blog, The Financial Philosopher. Can freedom be bought? Are there any (fina...Read more »
- The Rewards of Frugality and Thrift (or, Why We Scrimp and Save) (138 comments)
Over the past couple of weeks, more than a few GRS readers have complained about the site's tone. These folks are afraid that Get Rich Slowly is turning into a column that's only about frugality and s...Read more »
- The Marginal Utility of Money (36 comments)
This is a guest post from Mike Piper, who writes at Oblivious Investor, where he explains such thrilling topics as 401k rollovers and Roth IRA rules. I know I'm taking a risk by starting an article...Read more »
- Grow Your Savings by Paying in Full (62 comments)
This post is from GRS staff writer April Dykman. In the past six months, I've spent more money on personal development than I have in my entire life. I've also spent considerable amounts on laptops...Read more »
- Why I No Longer Track Every Penny I Spend (149 comments)
When I struggled with money during the 1990s, I had no clue what I was spending each month. I made my financial decisions based on my checkbook balance: If there were a few bucks left, I'd find ways t...Read more »
- How I Generate Extra Income by Letting Strangers Pay My Rent (77 comments)
This is a guest post from Rebecca Rosenfelt, the founder of RealSavvyRealEstate.com, a website devoted to demystifying the home buying process for first-time home buyers. I almost never pay the ent...Read more »
- Waving Good-Bye to the Joneses (153 comments)
A new study out of the U.K. confirms what many of us have already learned: Money only makes you happy if you have more than those around you. According to the London Telegraph: Despite the vast i...Read more »
- How My Real Estate Investing Adventure Came to an End (53 comments)
This article is by staff writer Adam Baker, whose own blog previously featured a comparison of money gurus in Dave Ramsey vs. Suze Orman. This is final article of a three-part series on how he stumble...Read more »
- Outsourcing Life: Unconventional Advice for When You’re Financially Secure (309 comments)
This is a guest post from Erica Douglass. After selling her online business for a million dollars at age 26, Erica "temporarily retired". She now writes an online business blog at erica.biz. This is...Read more »
- Lessons Learned from Rushing Into Real-Estate Investing (40 comments)
This article is by staff writer Adam Baker, whose own blog recently featured a must-see graphic on credit card transactions around the world. This is part two of a three-part series on how he stumbled...Read more »
- How I Bought an 8-Unit Apartment Building with No Money Down and Walked Away with $1000 Cash at Closing (86 comments)
This article is by staff writer Adam Baker. Baker recently outlined his ambitious 2010 goals for his blogging, business, and life. When I was 23, I bought an eight-unit apartment building with no m...Read more »
