July 22nd 2010
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Finances,
On Life and Love,
Reflections,
Society,
black,
investing,
money,
race,
racism,
retirement,
sam greenlee,
spook who sat by the door
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I finished The Spook Who Sat By the Door yesterday morning. Sam Greenlee has one hell of a knack for sharp writing, and regardless of my not being a proponent for militantism, the book struck a chord with me. Greenlee got at the heart of the loneliness of ...
I mentioned this obliquely a couple of weeks ago, but I'm wigging out a bit about retirement. In 39 years I will be 65, and I don't have solid plans with numbers behind them. Socking away $5k a year into an IRA just isn't enough.
Back in the day, ...
So I'm trying to get life insurance. Just 20-year level term life insurance. It's supposed to be cheap and easy to get.
Some of the big dogs won't do online quotes, New York Life in particular. So I agreed to meet with a local agent yesterday morning and ...
I finally got off my ass and finished moving over my teaching retirement money.
I asked them to cut me a check back in February so that I could do a rollover into an IRA. Well, turns out you can only rollover into a traditional IRA, so I got two ...
My first credit card -- a Chase Rewards card that I got back in 2005 to help with Thorn expenses -- is now my last and final. It had a $300 credit limit when I got it, and had a $2700 limit earlier this evening. I paid the ...
