As a child everyone had things that wanted to be–some children wanted to be firefighters or police men, the ambitious ones wanted to be doctors or lawyers, so what did I want to be?  A millionaire.  Yes, as a child I dreamed of living in a mansion, having “staff”, and while I had no clue [...]

Oprah and Suze Orman have teamed up to provide people a free financial plan for 2009.  I went ahead and downloaded it (I love Oprah, not as much of a Suze fan, but she has good common sense advice), and here is my summary: Get out of credit card debt.  Credit card companies are trying [...]

In my search to come up with passive income sources I have come across some skeptics. If you go to the Amazon web page for the The 4-Hour Workweek there are tons of comments doubting the value of his passive income and outsourcing in the favor of traditional hard work. I also came across an [...]

I was chatting with some of my colleagues about why I am so intrigued by finance and why I would want to spend all my free time devouring everything I can find on economics and finance–well part of it is that I am inherently greedy and materialistic (Madonna’s Material Girl was my theme song when [...]

I wish I had an ebay account.   I think I may set one up.  Lately I am obsessed with selling stuff on craigslist.  When I moved (at the end of 2007) I had an excess of furniture.  We started listing things on craigslist and in the process came up with tons of other ideas of [...]