I’m about to impart on some of those out there with a little bit of knowledge on finding out if you can handle a fixed rate mortgage without major changes to your standard of living. What I’m about to lay out applies only to those who are already on financially stable footing. This means you are currently NOT living with your parents due to your limited financial position, facing bankruptcy, etc. Of course, I am…
I’ve never really had all that much interest in history or the study of it. I’ve just not felt the need to re-live what’s already happened. I’m slowly beginning to change my opinions regarding this matter. I recently started reading William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoir. It’s been very illuminating. What’s been so surprising (or maybe not so much) is how similar some of the situations Sherman faced and lived through, economically and politically, are to the…
As shallow as it may be to say, perceptions matter greatly. If you were to truly think rationally concerning people’s perception, much of the time it makes very little sense. That statement I just made gave with one hand and took away with the other. Why? Because the words “rational” and “people” have had a very storied and difficult time coexisting since the beginning of sapience. Here’s what had me wondering about perceptions a few…
I’d just finished listening to today’s Planet Money podcast. One of their stories details two public service announcements regarding piggy banks. If you’re a US citizen/resident, then you’ve probably seen one of them. It’s basically exhorts the audience to “feed the pig”. If you have not seen it, then all it amounts to is for everyone to put money away in their “piggy” bank. I can’t seem to take away anything from this commercial but…
I posit that the “Best of” postings on Craigslists will at some point in the far future become the equivalent of Plato’s Republic, I Ching and maybe even the Tao Te Ching. At worst, it could become our posterity’s Canterbury Tales. Only it’ll actually be fun to read [note 1]. There is so much to glean from every one of the postings. If you look closely and deeply enough, you will find the coarse, the…