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What Nature Can Teach Us About Personal Finance

July 15, 2009 · 4 comments

in financial education , financial planning , guest post , money lessons , psychology , resources

This is a guest post from Wojciech Kulicki, the writer behind the personal finance blog Fiscal Fizzle. If you enjoyed this post, please consider subscribing to his feed.
First, let me say that it’s a pleasure to share this post with MoneyEnergy readers. I’ve been a regular reader for some time, and the posts here are [...]

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How To Get Ready For Double-Digit Inflation

July 13, 2009 · 10 comments

in credit cards , debt , economy , financial planning , hyperinflation , inflation , savings , wealth protection

Some people may tune out any talk of inflation, chalking its presence in the media up to fear-mongering (a handy scapegoat!) or laughable economic miscomprehension.  “Why worry about inflation, when deflation is clearly the threat?,” so many commentators cried a few months ago.  But if all one cares about is the short-term, then one won’t [...]

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Michael Jackson Money Management - Just Budget!

June 26, 2009 · 5 comments

in budgets , financial planning , money decisions , money lessons , money management , money mistakes , wealth

They Told Me Don’t You Ever Come Around Here
Don’t Wanna Pay It Back, You Better Disappear
The Numbers’ In The Red And You Owe More Than You Earn
So Budget, Just Budget
[2nd Verse]
You Better Sing, You Better Do What You Can
Don’t Wanna See No Shrink, Don’t Meet the Repo Man
You Wanna Be Young, Better Save What You [...]

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4 Tips for Having Conversations with Parents (and Others) About Money

June 12, 2009 · 4 comments

in behavioral finance , emotions , finances , financial planning , money decisions , money lessons , psychology

It may not be part of the old adage about religion and politics, but money still has the ability to divide and get people worked up.  Perhaps it is the hugely abstract idea(s) behind our physical use of money that cause(s) this problem.  Money is linked to the ideas of “value” and “worth.” How much [...]

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ABC’s UN-BROKE: Personal Finance For Dummies, or Useful Infotainment?

May 30, 2009 · 7 comments

in financial education , financial planning , news and updates

Did you see UN-BROKE: What You Need To Know About Money On ABC Friday night?  Starring Seth Green, Samuel L. Jackson and Christian Slater, the one-time special purports to help educate us (or those who don’t know) about personal finance.  We can call it the celebrification of personal finance.
I didn’t catch it on TV, but [...]

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The Real Costs of Graduate School

May 18, 2009 · 14 comments

in economy , education , financial planning , grad school

So, we’re in a prolonged recession.  Jobs for this year’s college graduates are supposedly all going to be at a standstill, causing new grads to have to settle for working in a field other than the one they did their Bachelor’s in or — gasp! — even taking a pay cut to work in their [...]

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Money Lessons Applied to Life: How To Build Your Mental Emergency Fund

May 15, 2009 · 3 comments

in emergency fund , financial planning , lifehack , psychology

What?! A mental emergency fund?  Yes; this is an analogy I thought of while walking on campus today.  Just as we want to have a savings fund large enough to be able to handle seriously unexpected expenses, accidents, and the unfortunate events of our lives, so too we need to have some sort of psychological [...]

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