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Can I Get Rich On A Salary
http://www.canigetrichonasalary.com
Personal-finance blog: a couple tries to meander toward financial independence, with a goal of a net worth of $3-5 million.
Recent Posts
Most People Can't Afford to Invest in Stocks??
I've been absentee but had to stop and quickly put up a link to an article interviewing economist Zvi Bodie, who says that people who need the arguably or historical higher return of stocks probably can't afford to take on the associated risk of stoc...
Success Stories: Dry Cleaner and Part-Time Janitor with Third-Grade Education Accumulates More than $2,300,000
In 2004, Geno Morlacci died at age 102—and left $2.3 million to the University of Great Falls, where he had worked as a part-time janitor. Morlacci never had more than a third-grade education. He immigrated to the United States in 1921 at age 19, t...
Man Bites Dog — Beats Airline in Dispute Over Canceled Flight!
I don't know if this is much of a personal-finance blog post, but it's too good a consumer story not to mention and link: A Flier Strikes Back (in Fortune magazine).The article describes our "hero," Mitchell Berns—and his beatdown of Delta Airlines...
Frugality Tips from a Setsuyaku No Tatsujin
I don't ordinarily think of BusinessWeek as much of a source for frugality tips, but the September 15, 2008 issue of BusinessWeek mentions some frugality tips from Japan in its article, A Nation of Yen-Pinchers. In particular, it features some of the...
Is It Better To Think Short-Term When It Comes to Saving?
The September 15, 2008 issue of BusinessWeek includes a Plus column tidbit titled, Short-Term Thinking May be a Saver's Best Friend. It discusses research by Professor Utpal Dholakia of Rice University and Professor Leona Tam of Old Dominion Universi...
Warren Buffet’s “10 Ways to Get Rich”?
The front cover of Parade magazine features a photo of a smiling Warren Buffet next to the headline, "10 Ways to Get Rich: Warren's Buffett's Secrets That Can Work For You!"For me? Really?Okay, tabloid-style headline aside, if you've been reading me ...

