What’s the most important investment product that you own? Shares of GE? Apple? An index or bond fund? Your house? Nope There’s an investment product out there that’s far more important than any of those. In fact, it’s such a monumental investment that it makes any stock certificate look like a lifeless, meaningless piece of [...]
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Your Most-Important Investment
Posted 31 July 2010 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Education | 1 Comment
Bill Moyers and Wendell Potter – Profits Before Patients
Posted 22 July 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Education | Comments Off
With all the talk about health care in the news lately, I thought it relevant for everyone to watch Bill Moyers’ interview with Wendell Potter, a health insurance insider and former executive for Cigna. Seriously, everyone should watch it. It’s eye-opening, to say the least. Now I’m not surprised at all why Aetna (my health/dental [...]
Desperately Seeking a Job (No Longer)
Posted 18 March 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Education, Goals, Victories | 8 Comments
Note: This is a follow-up from a previous post (Desperately Seeking a Job). As some of my readers (both of you) may remember, I’ve been on the job market for some time now, furiously and desperately trying to land my first job as a university professor. Times have been tough. My wife and I have [...]
Desperately Seeking a Job
Posted 28 January 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Education, Frugal living | 2 Comments
I generally try to post information that is useful and helpful to other people, but now and then I need to reserve a post for an outpouring of personal information and emotion. This is one of those posts. I admit: I’m downright nervous about jobs, or in this case, the lack thereof. As some of [...]
Freedom Through Poverty?
Posted 13 September 2008 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Education, Frugal living | 2 Comments
Mr. B has a confession. For all intents and purposes, I’m unemployed. No, that’s not quite true. I’m actually a doctoral candidate at my university, and astute readers (both of you!) may remember that in some of my posts from last spring, I made references to being on a job interview. i actually had two [...]
5 Reasons Why You Should Open A 529 Account Right Now
Posted 27 May 2008 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Education, Mutual funds | 5 Comments
My wife and I are both grad students, currently without any children. Even so, I recently opened 529 plans through Learning Quest (Kansas). What is a 529 plan? Essentially, it is a tax-advantaged account meant for future expenses related to higher education. I’m embarrassed to admit that I thought you could only open 529 plans [...]
