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Welcome to the November 4, 2008 edition of carnival of financial goals. As you head to the polls today, you probably cannot help thinking that our country could [...]

Daylight Saving Time is the semi-annual ritual of setting our clocks one hour forward or back depending on the season. “Spring forward. . .fall back” is the familiar reminder of which direction we should adjust our clocks. But why do we have DST and where did it come from? It turns out [...]

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you or someone you know ever experienced a financial miracle? Do you even believe in miracles, financial or otherwise? I’m going to tell you about a financial miracle I experienced as a child; at least, it seemed like [...]

Who wants a $25 bonus? ING Direct is offering a $25 bonus for anybody who opens an online Electric Orange Checking Account with an initial deposit of at least $250. If you are looking to open an ING Direct Orange Savings Account, check out my ING Direct Savings Account page.) To qualify, [...]

A new reader of The Dough Roller sent me an email asking how she should invest $15,000. She initially considered investing in P2P loans with Lending Club or Prosper, which is how she found my site. But now she wonders if she should use the money to refinance her mortgage instead. Here [...]

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”–Aristotle.
So often we define our lives by the big events. Graduation, marriage, children, a big promotion and retirement are some of the milestones that many of us remember (or will remember) as defining moments in our [...]

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2008 has been a difficult year. On Sunday, December 30, 2007, I rushed my wife to the hospital emergency room. She had developed severe abdominal pain and was literally doubled over as we raced to the hospital. When morphine didn’t dull the pain, they moved to dilaudid, which [...]

Some time ago I wrote an article about Tim Ferriss’ book, The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. My article questions just how realistic a 4-Hour work week is for must of us, and argued that achieving a 24-hour work week was more realistic.
The other day [...]