My company is issuing a mandatory shutdown during the next two weeks. Offices across the globe will be closed, and operations will come to a screeching halt (for once). Since I haven’t had much of a vacation

Money is the ultimate driving force in life. It makes the world go round and round. Everyone wants it. Everyone needs it. And the drive to obtain more can get someone to do just about anything. Friends, family, and even

Now that the election has come and gone, I’m sure President Obama and his staff are busy at work trying to put together a plan for the next 4 years. In some ways, it’s hard for me to believe that it’s already been 4 years since he was last elected - as it so often seems, time seems to be

According to mainstream media, those of us who are able to retire by 65 should consider ourselves “lucky”! I almost spit out my water when I read the first sentence of this

When I first started working in High School, I used to think, “man, this is so easy!”. By investing just 8 hours a day during the weekend, I was able to make enough money to buy a videogame… in a SINGLE day! $60 a day, or $7.50/hour seemed like a pretty significant chunk of change to an

Financial independence is a dream of mine, but to discover how it came to be involves retracing back to the early days of my youth. During this period of time, financial independence didn’t yet exist for me, but pure, unrestricted play time was something I truly embraced. In fact, my first recollections of desiring to be free take me all the way back to the beginning of grade school. I used to dread the end of Summer, as this signaled