If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck As 2010 draws to a close, I thought we might take a look at some of the major themes we’ve explored this year at Balance Junkie. I’ve chosen ten main ideas and included a few posts for each. Enjoy! 1. Balance Of…
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Is the Federal Reserve a hero or a villain? You can find plenty of Nobel Laureates, pundits, and civilians like myself on either side of that debate. Nassim Taleb, author of…
The seeds that delivered that crop – the global financial crisis – there’s more of those seeds than ever. They’re bigger than ever. ~ Rob Arnott Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Financial Planning #148 posted at My Wealth Builder. I’ve got a really interesting video link for you in today’s Friday…
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can “do” drugs, “have” sex,…
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance…
I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~ Joe Louis Update: This article was selected for the Best of Money Carnival #56 posted at Free Money Finance. Thank you! It was also included in the Carnival of Financial Planning #147 posted at The Skilled Investor. Thanks! Money, or the lack of it,…
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests on truth. ~ Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort Update: This post was included in the Money Hackers Carnival #117 posted at Engineer Your Finances. Thanks! Monday’s post dealt with some of the ways in which today’s market climate is Not Business as Usual. I’d like to…
The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~ Mad Magazine Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Financial Planning #142 posted at The Digerati Life. Thanks! I’ve heard a lot of…
