They say you should start every story with a hook. Here's my hook: a friend of mine came to my house about three weeks ago and confessed that she was seriously considering killing herself. After many hours and tears I managed to convince my friend to go to the ER and sat with her all … Read more
Final(ish) installment of the simple lifestage tips using US examples, this assumes you read ELI18, ELI22, and ELI30. About the "ELI40" designation. While you can use this info before or after 40, employment earnings expansion often starts to taper off then. If you have ~$50,000 or more in savings outside of retirement / house savings, … Read more
Back with another installment in our series of simple lifestage-appropriate tips based on US situations. This assumes you have read ELI18 and ELI22. Topics here, while relevant to "thirty-somethings", are appropriate for anyone with a stable financial situation. Remember that marriage, homeownership, etc., are options, not requirements. Marriage changes your legal situation and, consequently, your … Read more
For me, skiplagged doesn't work anymore. I have seen some tutorials on how to calculate the dates and time that prices are more likely to drop, but cannot identify what actually works. EDIT: typo EDIT 2: Can we get a big data engineer in money management to answer whether this could be a matter related … Read more
Marissa Mayer may have one more problem to add to her list. Yahoo has been making changes to its popular money management tool, and users have complained of missing message boards, slow load times, formatting errors, and requirements to execute more commands. "We are aware that some users are reporting slow page loads," its money … Read more
My short bio: I'm Solomon Kahn, former fellow at the Harvard University Safra Center For Ethics, and I've built a super powerful tool to explore who gives money to federal politicians. At my day job I run the data team at Paperless Post. I'm currently running a kickstarter for the tool so I can help … Read more
European Parliament study: “EU should financial key open source tools”