Tag: TANSTAAFL

Free Money: How the Free Money of Medicaid Expansion is Better than the Free Money of a 401k Match

Friday, November 22, 2013 at 1pm
By John Friedman

Never turn down free money, you hear people sometimes say, right? And if free money were a more common thing, why, then you’d hear it said a whole lot more, but it ain’t (because, you know, TANSTAAFL and if-it-looks-too-good-to-be-true and such) so you don’t. But free money does in fact […]

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

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 7am
By John Friedman

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 […]

Top 10 Financial Don’ts

Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 12pm
By John Friedman

Here I am, doing Top 10 lists this week, and in my morning reading I come across this in the Washington Post: Group releases list of 90 medical ‘don’ts’ Don’t use feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia. Don’t use drugs to aggressively treat diabetes in those older than 65. […]