The Millionaire Fastlane By: MJ Demarco If there was ever a case for a little less “hype-y” title for a book, this is it.  I’m not sure what else I would have named it, but the title just seems like a whole bunch of get-rich-quick hype, and it kept me from reading the book sooner [...]

Some of you will remember that last year, Eric from Narrow Bridge Finance put together a Yakezie March Madness bracket comprised of the members of the Yakezie.  He’s done the same this year, and the Yakezie has grown so much that he even had to limit the field to 64! There’s lot of good competition [...]

Swagbucks, a paid-to-search site is turning 4 years old later this month, and to celebrate, they’re having a big birthday bash.  As a part of the bash, they’re having a two-party party.  One for each of their mascots, swagbucks guy and swagbucks gal.  You simply pick a team, then on the 27th, you earn points [...]

Not content to upset the recyclers in the community (See: Is Recycling Bullshit), I’m moving on to electric cars today.  Rob at Say Anything Blog had an interesting post the other day citing a report from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville that talks about how electric cars might be worse for the environment than [...]

One of the most important parts of paying off your debt and becoming financially independent is creating a budget.  At the very least it gives you an outline of where your money goes and where it should go.  At it’s most extreme, it serves to create strict limits for your spending.  How lax or strictly [...]

This June, as so many others will, I will be going to the polls to make my vote heard.  One of the many things that I’ll get to vote on is a state-wide measure to get rid of property taxes.  Pretty cool, no?  How often do you get to vote on things that directly affect [...]

One of the first things that you, I, or anyone else will likely worry about when contemplating quitting our jobs is the financial aspect of doing so.  We’ll worry about whether we’ll be able to make enough money, on our own, to pay our bills.  We’ll worry about whether that income, if it is enough, [...]

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You already know that I like Lending Club as an investment vehicle.  The returns are good (or great, depending on your default rate), and I like the idea that my money isn’t going to line the pockets of some corporation, but is being used to help someone who needs a loan get a better rate [...]

One question I’ve been asked over and over when talking about quitting my job is how I overcame the fear of not being able to find a new job, or not being able to pay my bills.  Obviously, both of those questions played a part in the decision.  My answer might surprise some.  I didn’t.  [...]