$1,000 Per Month in Dividends, or a Minimum-Wage Leprechaun?
When I told my wife what I thought was going on, she gave her typical response, “Eric, have you been drinking the homemade liquor again?” […]
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Memoirs of a Professional College Student
I’ve never told anyone this story before—not my wife, not my long-time friends, not nobody. You’re the first to hear it. Part of the appeal […]
TopCashback Will Change How You Spend Money
In its simplest terms, the internet is just a big marketplace made up of three players: storefronts, promoters, and customers. The customers are all of us: […]
An Update on that “Early Retirement” Thing
It’s been 231 days since I last provided an update on my financial situation and my progress toward early retirement. That delay is partly attributable to […]
The Most Addictive Thing In The World
The blog-turned-book When to Rob a Bank, by authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (of Freakonomics fame), is a compilation of short missives that are meant […]
How to Spell “Love”
I remember the moment I fell in love with my wife. A year before I proposed, I was completing my undergrad at the University of […]
$400,000: A Net Worth Milestone Requires Reflection on How it All Happened
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of medical device startup Theranos, has had a rough week. Theranos was once the darling unicorn of biotech. The […]
Picking Up Dandelions: Lessons From 10 Days Without a Cell Phone
There is a yuppie restaurant called Public House in National Harbor, MD. It was 2011 and my wife and I were still dual-income-no-kids, so we […]
Three Stocks You Can Own Forever
In his 1988 Annual Letter to Shareholders, the human epigram known as Warren Buffett gave what would become his most famous quote, “[W]hen we own portions of […]
Q1 2016 Financial Reports
I’m direct to you today from the Embassy Suites in downtown Washington, D.C. We’re staying here for a couple nights to celebrate my wife’s birthday. […]