Telling people to “save more money” is empty advice. How? What’s the first step?
Today, Ben Franklin helps us define a real, simple, executable plan.
FIRE Starter: A Brief Intro to Personal Finance’s Hot New Acronym
A brief intro of personal finance’s hot new acronym.
How Experts Budget: The Best Interest Budget Survey
Are you worried that your budget—or lack thereof—is damaging your financial health? Over a dozen other financial writers contributed to this week’s deep dive into budgets.
All the contributors share one vital beneficial behavior.
What is Leverage? It’s why the sky is falling
If the wolves are panicking, why are the sheep chilling out?
Vacation Feedback
The Best Interest is on vacation. So I have three simple ideas if you need your weekly dose of educational financial humor.
Stretched too thin
Do your finances feel stretched too thin?
Size Doesn’t Matter: How rich people are unhappy
How can rich people be unhappy? Let’s learn some lessons from academic research, and apply good practices from common sense personal finance.
Predicting the Future with Startling Accuracy
Christmas is coming. I know it, you know it, the stock clerks at Target certainly know it. While some people are currently celebrating Christmas in July with sunshine and sandals on, my mind is on Christmas for slightly different reasons. How…
Slacking Off
We want to be tight, efficient. Why should we waste time on slack?
Confused by Crypto
What’s a Bitcoin? What’s a sh**coin? And is my LEGO necklace a Block Chain?