More on Health Care
A few posts ago I wrote about the problem of health insurance, as it relates to the self-employed, those with pre-existing conditions, the uninsured, etc. The blog Early Retirement Extreme has posted another good article with some ideas on how to save money on the cost of health care. A couple of notes about this [...]
June 16, 2010
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Tags: health care, health insurance, Personal finance · Posted in: Economics and Money, Health
Retiring Early
As longtime (heh heh) readers of this blog will know, I have written a few posts about money, consumerism, the cost of cars, and stuff like that. Well, this morning Everett Bogue had an interesting tweet, with a pointer to a blog about how to retire early. Even if you don’t want to retire early, I [...]
June 2, 2010
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Tags: early retirement, Minimalism, Personal finance · Posted in: Economics and Money, Minimalism, consumerism
Cost of Living over the last generation
According to Richard Florida, in his latest book “the Great Reset“, over the last half century: 1)The amount of money the average American family spends on housing and cars has doubled from 22 percent to 44 percent of its budget, and… 2)The money a family must devote to healthcare has risen threefold, from 5.2 percent [...]
May 19, 2010
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Tags: Personal finance, Richard Florida, the Great Reset · Posted in: Economics and Money, consumerism, the Great Reset commentary
Steps to avoid the Chaos Economy
Saw this story about our economy roaring back to life on the basis of increased consumer spending today. As a human being stuck existing within this economy, I have mixed feelings about this. I realize that people’s livelihoods are wrapped up in our consumer economy. That is simply the reality. When we stop wasting our [...]
April 30, 2010
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Tags: consumerism, economic stability, Minimalism, Personal finance · Posted in: consumerism
How cars rob Americans of their retirement.
A few years ago, I heard a relative comment that since she would always have a car payment, she didn’t worry about it and just traded in cars when she wanted and drove what she liked. This got me thinking. Are car payments really inevitable? The answer of course is “no”. Just because transportation is [...]
March 25, 2010
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Tags: Cars, Personal finance, retirement planning, Transportation · Posted in: Cars
