If you’ve got a little time, I have seen no better example that encapsulates, in one man’s story, the mania that preceded the housing bubble and its very painful aftermath. His story is jaw-dropping. A financial correspondent for the NY Times Washington bureau, Edmund L. Andrews’s $120,000 salary was never going to support $4,000 in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cash Flow'
Gamers and Those Who Stop Playing: A Story Behind the Story
May 26th, 2009 1 Comment
In this story I wrote for CreditCards.com on which cards personal finance experts use themselves, Liz Pulliam Weston, MSN Money columnist, and Ron Lieber, NY Times columnist, are both whip-smart and serious about leveraging their credit cards rewards programs. In the course of my conversation with Lieber, I asked something about how the card issuers [...]
Tags: cash economy · Chris Farrell · creditcards.com · Liz Pulliam Weston · Ron Lieber
Pay Off Debt First, or Save?
April 21st, 2009 12 Comments
When I first started this blog, I envisioned socking money away in a variety of interest-earning places: IRAs, CDs, and money market funds. I was fresh from the “eureka! Savers build wealth!” experience that the otherwise clueless among us get when they’ve just stumbled across “The Millionaire Next Door,” and ready to start building some [...]
Tags: Cash Flow · credit cards · paying off debt · savings
Ticket Punched: Goodbye NFL Season Pass
January 7th, 2009 6 Comments
Image via Wikipedia Cash Husband here again. Just received an ominous e-mail from DirecTV, informing me that my e-bill is ready for viewing. I was sure this month’s bill would be back to normal, following five months of paying extra for NFL Sunday Ticket. But no. Here we are again at $114. For a month [...]
Tags: NFL · NFL Sunday Ticket · Oakland Raiders
Choosing Debt
October 30th, 2008 2 Comments
Cash Husband here: While talking to my brother recently about the financial double-whammy of having kids (higher expenses, lower income), he politely reminded me: “You chose to have kids, you know.” Which raises a legitimate and important question: If kids are so expensive, why didn’t we have a better plan in place before we had [...]
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Cleaning Service: Stay or Go? NEW Vote!
September 26th, 2008 10 Comments
Tug-o-broom Image from PicApp: “Couple Holding Brooms” Since we did the 60 percent exercise — that is, trying to get our committed monthly expenses closer to that number than to the current 79 percent — we’ve been ping-ponging around what we could cut out of our monthly budget. We’ve hit our first snag over our [...]
Tags: 60 percent solution · sidetaker.com · Stephen Colbert · time value of cleaning
It’s Not the Cash, It’s the Flow
September 8th, 2008 1 Comment
Author’s husband here, guest-posting. After broadcasting this blog’s existence to some friends and relatives, Sara received some concerned e-mails about our solvency. So listen up: I am the keeper of the books, and I say we are OK. To clarify: We are not broke. We are not avoiding calls from creditors. We are not staring [...]
Tags: Cash Flow · husband post
