Category: Financial Jargon/Financial Language

Putting Your Savings on Auto-Pilot Can Be a Great Idea (but Usually Not Via Complicated Life Insurance)

Friday, February 15, 2013 at 2pm
By John Friedman

I’ve often said that your savings rate is the primary numeric fact underlying your overall financial health. See here, here, here and here, to just link a few. In the next breath, though, I usually have to add that, quite unfortunately, many of us are quite rotten at saving money, while just […]

Insurance Companies, Kafka, PITB Expenses and High Deductibles

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 12pm
By John Friedman

I don’t often do rants (or do I?). Today, though, I’ve a bit of a rant to share. The things we do in the name of writing about improved financial health! *  *  * Most people know Franz Kafka as the fellow who wrote the story about the traveling salesman […]

Hearing the Two Words in “Social Security”

Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 1pm
By John Friedman

Sometimes we use a combination of two words together frequently enough throughout our everyday language that the two essentially become one; we cease to hear the two words as words on their own, and instead hear the two words as a single amalgamated word. It’s a case of near portmanteau-hood. When […]

Tommy Lee Jones, Ameriprise and the Double-Deal

Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 10am
By John Friedman

I like Tommy Lee Jones, the actor. He can play lunatic nuclear-bomb-thrower as well as wise-old self-sacrificing native American father-in-law hero and everything in between. He also plays cops a lot — good cops. And these days, as time changes his face, he can do a fantastic quiet melancholy without saying a word, […]

Language-Fail in the Land of Financial Planners

Friday, November 2, 2012 at 2pm
By John Friedman

Did you know that there is a big difference between a fee-only financial planner and a fee-based financial planner — that this simple, single-word swap of the word only for the word based means a great deal in the land of FPers? No? Well, you can read all about it on the Internets Tubes via the […]

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