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- Mike Michalowicz, ex-Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (18 comments)
I've been meaning to write about Mike Michalowicz for a while now. Last October, in a comment to an article about generalization vs. specialization, I sided with specialists and promised reader Rya th...Read more »
- Financial enlightenment does not come from charts (52 comments)
I've always looked at websites and apps that purport to solve your financial woes and set you on the path to fiscal happiness with skepticism. It's not that I think they're not useful; but I think tha...Read more »
- How to Have More Money (84 comments)
This is a guest post from Jerrold Mundis, author of the classic How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously [here's my review]. Mundis is a writer and financial therapist. The fina...Read more »
- Reader Story: The Money Fix (59 comments)
This guest post from Christine 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 or fa...Read more »
- Learn More About Money from an Investment Group (17 comments)
I love to learn. That's part of what makes me who I am. And so I spend large chunks of time pursuing passions like astronomy and Spanish...and investing. Sometimes I'm asked if I have a method for pic...Read more »
- What Will You Get from Social Security? (99 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 »
- Estate Planning Done Right: How to Help Your Family from the Great Beyond (48 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 »
- Celebrating Frugal Role Models (94 comments)
This post is from staff writer Sierra Black. Sierra writes about frugality, sustainable living, and raising children at Childwild.com. Saving money and controlling your spending can be hard. Really...Read more »
- An Interview with Thomas Stanley, Co-Author of “The Millionaire Next Door” (72 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 contributes one new articl...Read more »
- The Tax Protestor FAQ (50 comments)
Every so often (especially this time of year), someone writes to let me in on a secret. "J.D., did you know you don't have to pay income taxes?" they'll say. "It's true! Income tax is illegal!" I'v...Read more »
- Nine Lessons in Wealth-Building from The Millionaire Next Door (94 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 contributes one new articl...Read more »
- Advice from a Billionaire: What to do With a Windfall (42 comments)
A long-time GRS reader named Andy dropped me a line the other day to point out an article on the Forbes website. Forbes interviewed billionaire Mark Cuban (best known as the owner of the Dallas Maveri...Read more »
- The Prioritized Spending Plan (65 comments)
I don't often get to listen to Dave Ramsey's radio program. For one thing, I don't know when it's on. For another, the only radio stations I usually listen to are my satellite radio channels. (Those w...Read more »
- The Best Way to Pay for Advice: The Advantages of a Fee-Only Financial Advisor (37 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 contributes one new articl...Read more »
- The Snowball: How Compounding Affects Money, Knowledge, and Life (48 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 contributes one new articl...Read more »
- Money Myths and the Importance of Thinking for Yourself (136 comments)
When I sat down to write Your Money: The Missing Manual, I knew I wanted to start with a chapter on happiness. (Well, to be fair, I was going to conclude the book with this chapter; my editor suggeste...Read more »
- Finding a Financial Guru (33 comments)
This post is from GRS staff writer April Dykman. At certain stages in your financial journey, you need a catalyst to get you to the next stage. Perhaps right now you are coming out of the zeroth ...Read more »
- Warren Buffett on the Lottery of Birth (68 comments)
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the advisor for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new articl...Read more »
- MyFinancialAdvice.com Helps the Average Person Find a Financial Advisor (13 comments)
Many companies send me press releases and e-mail trying to get my attention. Some of these companies suck. Others are fine, but I don't have the time to look at them. Every once in a while, though, I ...Read more »
- The Problem With Prognostication: Why You Shouldn’t Invest Based on “Expert” Predictions (32 comments)
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the advisor for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new articl...Read more »
- Ask the Readers: How Do I Pick the Best Credit Card? (128 comments)
Sometimes I get questions that are out of my league. In the past, I've just sort of ignored these, but I'd like to try to answer more of them. To do this, I'm going to start asking for tips from some ...Read more »
- Great Lessons from Great Men (67 comments)
Because I write a personal finance blog, I read a lot of books about money. I'll be honest: they're usually pretty boring. Sure, they can tell you how to invest in bonds or how to find the latest loop...Read more »
- Suze Orman Jumps Aboard the “Pay With Cash” Bandwagon (188 comments)
This article is by staff writer Adam Baker. Baker recently listed the Top 10 Money Movies of the Decade. For years now, Dave Ramsey has recommended ditching credit cards and paying with cash. (Spec...Read more »
- You Can Negotiate Anything (45 comments)
In May, I wrote about how to negotiate your salary. I argued that following the advice in Jack Chapman's Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1,000 a Minute is one of the best ways to improve your fi...Read more »
- Is Frugality a Necessary Evil? (118 comments)
In the comments on a recent post about peer pressure, I mentioned a quote that I'd edited from the original draft. (I write a lot of stuff that doesn't make it into final articles. It's as if there sh...Read more »
- Warren Buffett Has No Regrets About the Past Year — Do You? (40 comments)
This article is GRS staff writer Adam Baker. In addition to his work at Get Rich Slowly, Baker blogs over at Man Vs. Debt, where he maintains a list of every single item his family owns. It's no se...Read more »
- Failing Forward: Transforming Mistakes into Success (22 comments)
Sometimes the best personal finance books aren't about personal finance. In June 2006, for example, I shared a brief review of Steven Pressfield's The War of Art. Ostensibly this book is about cre...Read more »
- How to Buy a Mattress (124 comments)
After my post about mattress shopping the other day, Garrison contacted me. "My home just flooded and due to renters insurance I was thrown into the market for a new mattress," he said. "I called up ...Read more »
- Escape from Cubicle Nation (35 comments)
Last Friday, I attended a workshop put on by Pamela Slim, who writes about entrepreneurship at Escape from Cubicle Nation. Before this meeting, I didn't know much about Slim or her message, but her wo...Read more »
- Your Secret Credit Scores (21 comments)
During yesterday's episode of The Personal Finance Hour, Jim and I spoke with Liz Pulliam Weston, financial columnist and credit score expert. Weston provided background on how the credit scoring syst...Read more »
- The Personal Finance Hour, Episode 13: Credit Scores with Liz Weston (13 comments)
Join us this afternoon for the 13th episode of The Personal Finance Hour. Today, Jim and I will be joined by a special guest, money writer Liz Pulliam Weston. Weston, "the most-read personal finance c...Read more »
- An Investor’s Manifesto: 20 Guiding Principles for Investment Success (41 comments)
Knight Kiplinger is the editor-in-chief and a columnist for Kiplinger's Personal Finance, one of the "big three" money magazines. In the June issue, Kiplinger offered an investor's manifesto, a list o...Read more »
- Three Lessons from Warren Buffett (34 comments)
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Beginning today, Robert will contribute one article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks. It's my hope that he'll bring a fresh perspective t...Read more »
- Fail-Safe Investing? Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio (64 comments)
"The first rule of investing is don't lose money; the second rule is don't forget rule number one." — Warren Buffett At the end of March, I asked you what topics you'd like to see covered dur...Read more »
- 8 Questions to Ask BEFORE Hiring a Financial Planner (119 comments)
This is a guest post by Jeff Rose, an Certified Financial Planner from Illinois. Rose is also the author of Good Financial Cents, a financial planning and investment blog. Before reading his article, ...Read more »
- The Fundamental Rules of Investment Success (28 comments)
John Templeton was born in the small town of Winchester, Tennessee in 1912. As a young man, he graduated first in his class from Yale University before earning a law degree as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxfo...Read more »
- Safe Money in Tough Times: Questions and Answers with Jonathan Pond (58 comments)
My wife is a public broadcasting fanatic. I recognize its value, but mostly I just tolerate it. (I often joke that NPR is "noise pollution radio" — I can't think when it's on.) Usually the telev...Read more »
- George Kinder: Three Questions about Life Planning (31 comments)
I spent last Tuesday at the mid-winter conference of the local financial planning association. I was there to give a one-hour presentation about financial blogs, but I had a secondary motive. I wanted...Read more »
- Which America? The Possibilities of American Thrift (36 comments)
As National Thrift Week winds down, I'm pleased to offer (by permission) a short essay from author David Blankenhorn. This is taken from the end of his 2008 book, Thrift: A Cyclopedia, published by Te...Read more »
- Tune in Tonight: Nightly Business Report Interviews Warren Buffett (20 comments)
As part of its 30th anniversary, Public Broadcasting's Nightly Business Report is airing an interview with Warren Buffett tonight (Thursday, January 22nd). Susie Gharib spoke with "the oracle of Omaha...Read more »
- Happy 303rd Birthday, Benjamin Franklin! (26 comments)
Today is the first day of National Thrift Week. It's also the 303rd anniversary of the birth of America's first — and best — personal-finance writer. Benjamin Franklin was born on this day...Read more »
- Interview: The Motley Fool’s David Gardner Talks About Stock-Market Investing (19 comments)
Earlier today, I reviewed the new book from The Motley Fool, Million Dollar Portfolio. I had the pleasure to interview author David Gardner at the end of December. This post contains excerpts from tha...Read more »
- Million Dollar Portfolio: The Motley Fool Guide to Stock-Market Investing (46 comments)
"People want to make money fast, but it doesn't happen that way." — Warren Buffett Over Christmas, I read Roger Lowenstein's fantastic biography of Warren Buffett, one of my financial heroes....Read more »
- Free Downloadable Suze Orman Book from Oprah (22 comments)
Here's a quick reminder that Suze Orman will be on The Oprah Winfrey Show this afternoon to discuss jumpstarting your personal finances in 2009. Serena wrote to let me know that until next Thursday (1...Read more »
- Like a Drug: Suze Orman on Credit Cards (41 comments)
I recently participated in a conference call with Suze Orman, who is working to promote Best Life Week. This series runs on The Oprah Winfrey Show all this week, and is intended to help viewers "jumps...Read more »
- You Are Not Your Money (40 comments)
Joe S. sent me a recent New York Times editorial from Ben Stein, who describes being approached by representatives from Bernard Madoff. Madoff ran a Wall Street hedge fund which reportedly "never lost...Read more »
- The Kiplinger’s Personal Finance 2008 “Best List” (23 comments)
Fast on the draw, Kiplinger's Personal Finance published their "2008 Best List" earlier this month. While this is a quick and easy read in magazine form, the Kiplinger web site makes it almost impossi...Read more »
- Warren Buffett’s Ten Secrets to Wealth and Life (43 comments)
Warren Buffett is the richest man in the world, yet his reputation for frugality, folksy wisdom, and straight talk make him seem like just a regular guy, like he might be the billionaire next door. He...Read more »
- Leverage, Luck, and Living Well: A Conversation with Financial Columnist Scott Burns (16 comments)
During the first week of July, I had the privilege to chat with financial author Scott Burns. What was intended to be a brief interview about his new book, Spend 'til the End [my review] lasted for ne...Read more »
- Tim Ferriss on the Power of Personal Entrepreneurship (16 comments)
I write a lot about saving money. Like many of you, I've found frugality an excellent way to widen the gap between what I earn and what I spend. Frugality helped me get out of debt, increase my monthl...Read more »
- How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks from Timothy Ferriss (51 comments)
In his book, The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss proposes that we shift our focus from end-of-life "macro" retirements to more frequent mini-retirements, which might be spaced throughout a working career...Read more »
- Using Mini-Retirements to Get More Out of Life: An Interview with Timothy Ferriss (45 comments)
On a cool Thursday morning last July, I woke early to walk into the hills outside Wells in Somerset County, England. After three-quarters of an hour, I reached a point with a broad vista of the surrou...Read more »
- Twelve Top Personal Finance Podcasts (36 comments)
Update: I really have started my own podcast! I've joined Jim from Bargaineering to launch The Personal Finance Hour. Please stop by and give it a listen... Occasionally I toy with the idea of crea...Read more »
- Robert Kiyosaki: Increase Your Financial IQ (66 comments)
The problem with the standard financial advice is that it's bad advice. You've been told to work hard, save money, get out of debt, live below your means, and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of...Read more »
- Warren Buffett on Market Fluctuations: Investors Gain When the Market Falls (20 comments)
Berkshire Hathaway held its annual shareholders meeting over the weekend. The company, run by Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett (the world's richest man, and one of my personal heroes), continues to d...Read more »
- What Would Warren Buffett Do? (28 comments)
You folks have been sending me a lot of Warren Buffett stuff lately. I appreciate it. Buffett is one of my financial heroes, and I love to soak up his advice. Because I don't have room to highlight al...Read more »
- Uncommon Lifestyles and the Truth About the 4-Hour Workweek: An Interview with Tim Ferriss (40 comments)
One of the fundamental premises of the Get Rich Slowly philosophy is that by making sacrifices and smart moves now, you can create a better life in the future. It's a philosophy of deferred gratificat...Read more »
- Book Review: Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover (147 comments)
Dave Ramsey changed my life. In the fall of 2004, I had over $35,000 in consumer debt. I was making a solid middle-class salary, but I lived paycheck-to-paycheck. My money habits were terrible. Whe...Read more »
- Does the Financial Industry Subtract Value from the Economy? (23 comments)
Vintek pointed me to a Bill Moyers interview with John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and patron saint of index funds. (He's also one of my financial heroes.) Mostly, the conversation revolves a...Read more »
- Five Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires (39 comments)
Several people forwarded a recent Reader's Digest article about the secrets of self-made millionaires. It's a quick and inspiring read. "Many modern millionaires live in middle-class neighborhoods...Read more »
- One Man Who Beats the Market (and His Suggestions for Individual Investors) (46 comments)
I've edited this post to clarify a few things, and to add information researched by GRS readers. Thanks! The average investor cannot beat the market on a regular basis. For her, index funds are the...Read more »
- Questions and Answers with Warren Buffett (16 comments)
How often can you hear advice from the world's greatest investor? In 1998, at the beginning of the tech bubble, Warren Buffett spoke to a group of MBA students at the University of Florida. He spent n...Read more »
- 20 Great Nuggets of Personal Finance Advice (12 comments)
Yesterday I mentioned a Money magazine article called "The Best Advice of All Time". The web version has been posted, though it's in the annoying "gallery" format. (It does contain links to supplement...Read more »
- Confessions of a Personal Finance Guru (37 comments)
This is a guest-post from Liz Weston, one of my favorite professional personal finance writers. You guys send me more articles from her than from any other expert. (Except maybe Ben Stein — you ...Read more »
- Get Rich Quack: David Schirmer of The Secret (37 comments)
In my review of The Secret, I complained about the get rich quick mentality the book espouses. I was particularly cranky at the financial "advice" to visualize checks coming in the mail. That tip came...Read more »
- Personal Finance Chat Today at 1pm Pacific (0 comment)
This just in! The Los Angeles Times web site has a blurb on many of its pages this morning announcing that personal finance columnist Kathy Kristof will be answering questions in an online chat tod...Read more »
- Finding a Mentor: It Never Hurts to Ask (14 comments)
Your career is one of your most important assets. After your health, it plays the largest role in determining your ability to acquire wealth. Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist is a weblog filled with ...Read more »
