F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise, was a successful writer in the 1920s and 1930s who earned $500,000 (U.S.) a year in today’s prices. Yet he and his family could never seem to save despite concerted efforts to budget and “accumulate capital.”  William J. ...

I’m in favor of people living within their means and creating wealth through saving and investing. I believe they will live better lives, and the country’s economy will be stronger for it. Kudos then for Kerry Taylor ….

It’s amazing that a book written in 1846 about a miserly banker by the name of Ebenezer Scrooge still enthralls us. Give credit to Charles Dickens for his powerful storytelling skills. But was Ebenezer such a bad dude after all? His frugality is the stuff of personal finance books. If ...

For me, Findependence Day had a few lessons “in between the lines.” One pertained to marriage/children and how they can affect the pursuit of financial independence (as discussed before in this blog).