I first came across the idea of the Latte Factor while reading The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach.  The Latte Factor essentially sums up one of the most important keys to attaining long-term wealth.  It’s a popular phrase in the personal finance world, but it acknowledges a problematic American trait that continues to runs rampant […]

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This last week, the first checks began hitting the mail as part of Dubya’s economic stimulus passage.  Washington can’t wait for this money to hit our pockets so that we can spend like the consuming Americans we are and hopefully turn the struggling economy around.  While this is what they would love for us to […]

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Ah you gotta love springtime:  no more snow (knock on wood), halfway decent weather, the stress of final exams, and the reality that summer is almost here, which for a lot of us means finding summer work.  At about 3 weeks and counting until school lets out, I was still completely up in the air […]

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