Archive for May, 2013

When You Get Financial Advice for Free, are You the Product?

If you do a Google search for the word MBAism, you’ll mostly find references to business degrees minted by the International School of Management, as in, an MBA from ISM. But that’s not what I use it for; I use the term to refer to widely-used sayings about business that […]

Teach Your Children Well . . . About the Financial Aspects of Living in the Material World

Most of us don’t-learn about money the same way we don’t-learn about the birds and the bees: from our parents. Yup, it’s sad but true that most of our parents never taught us nothin’ ’bout sex and never taught us nothin’ ’bout no money (though some of them were big […]