I regularly read a blog called Hope to Prosper. The author, Bret, often addresses personal finance issues not covered by others. Just as often, he gives an old topic new life with a thoughtful post that looks at things from a new angle. This week, illustrating how a career can become a non-starter, Bret wrote [...]

As a rule, people in the military aren’t the most financially savvy folks you’ll ever meet. Graduating from high school and going straight to a job that provides you with the necessities of life and a paycheck to spend as you please results in a lack of financial literacy, especially among younger soldiers. As a [...]

So I’ve been in Afghanistan for about a week and a half now, and my lack of posting is due more to laziness than to being busy. In the meantime, since I know a lot of people who are deployed or deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan, I decided to put together this Excel spreadsheet to [...]

This is a guest post by Marc Brown, who is associated with Oak View Law Group. He also maintains some quality blogs & web sites. Wealth is most often the root of all evil and source of every discrepancy from time immemorial. It is connected to every other human being on the planet in some [...]

Michael Bloomberg is putting his foot down. Want to use food stamps? Shop healthier, says the mayor of New York City. The city government has asked the feds to impose a two-year ban on the purchase of sodas and certain other sugary drinks using food stamps. This is in line with Bloomberg’s campaign for public [...]