Debt to Dreams

That is what my wife asked me when she paged me at work today. I already feel a little like a slug for pawning our taxes off on a professional. The last thing I want to hear is that we really dropped the ball in some other way. Luckily for us, it wasn’t too much [...]

Since the deadline for taxes in now less than a month away my wife and I have finally gotten our tax documents in order. For the past two years I have done my taxes myself. For the 2004 tax year I used Turbo Tax and it worked quiet well. The only issue I had with [...]

I hear this phrase used sometimes about some of my friends who cannot seem to make up their minds about what they want to do with their life. Many of them were “pre-med” with me in undergraduate and for various reasons decided that medicine was not for them. Next a few applied to business school [...]

I don’t know how I missed this article on MSN Money in late February. It is really an eye opener about the way we are taxed. Unfortunately the article doesn’t really go into the details of how they calculated all these tax rates for each age group. As I skimmed the article something significant did [...]

I was doing an Internet search for information about the Obesity epidemic and how it affects us financially when I came across a great article that is now about 6 years old but remains spot on when it comes to “Fixing a Fat Nation“.  The fact that this article was written half a decade ago and we [...]

I just read a pretty interesting article in the WSJ. In the wake of the recent market dip it appears that our appetite for risk is waining. Now just as people are seeking more safe investments, fewer investments appear safe. On Tuesday very few asset classes were left unscathed. Here is the run down: all [...]

As we enter the end of the first quarter, the market looks like it has regained some volatility. I decided to wait a day or two to check all my accounts after that short ride the market took on 2.27.07. I know many others had more at stake but one of the benefits of not [...]

I have to admit, publishers keep finding ways to restate the same ideas each month their finance magazines and keep it somewhat fresh. Perhaps it is our own failure to take what they say to heart that keeps the message coming. Sort of like visiting a doctor and hearing them tell you to exercise more [...]