Well, first of all, you can always get the Seattle Times online, without handing your subscription money over to Blethen and his editorial board. Is that economically sustainable? No, but if the Times starts serving the interests of the …
Sex or money? Condoms or internal rate of return? Which of these highly charged topics and terms would you prefer (or prefer not) to talk to your kids about?
When it comes to prickly cash flow conversations, how can you avoid offending friends or looking like a cheapskate? Here, a few common cash conundrums and how to handle them with dignity.
When you’re a writer, all those trips for book business may be fun, but they also cost money. So, as a working writer who supports herself from the writing proceeds, I have to spend a LOT of time figuring out how to pay for everything. …
New Yorker writer Tad Friend on the deleterious effects of growing up WASP.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.Polonius, Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 75-77Good advice from one of Shakespeare’s flightier characters.
When you take a loan from a bank, as unbelievable as it sounds, the bank actually creates most of that money out of thin air. This is called debt based monetary system: with new loans new money is created (causing inflation) and when …
