What a beautiful day - I believe I'll spend it outside, as much as I like hanging out with your folks...
Links We Liked!
- Multiple features from our friend SS, normally at Save.Spend.Splurge.: An article about not giving your kids money, and at Money Propeller a post on money advice she wishes she'd received while younger (pre-college).
- Free By 50 does some math on how often renters are evicted. For what it's worth, my wife thinks he's got the right ballpark - no evictions since 2012 although she cautions "SF is very tenant-biased" with their laws.
- At Budgets are Sexy: an interesting series on saving money on phone/internet/TV - here's the TV article.
- Political Calculations reviews a book which tells you how to boost your IQ, and makes a suggestions which involves a 9-v battery. (Note: it is theoretically possible to kill yourself with a 9v battery - probably with current between 60 and 500 mA for direct current)
- Len Penzo's got the dirt on how to hold your money in a marriage.
- Our friend Jason Hull does that math - $1,000,000 ain't what it used to be when it comes to your retirement.
- At Funny-About-Money, a behind the scenes look at how textbook editions work in higher education - and an elegant solution (at the expense of double the work!) for students who got the previous edition.
- At Burbed, spotlight's on an interesting stat: SFGate's claim that the average tech worker makes almost $300,000 in the mid-Peninsula.
- Oldie but goodie: The SF Federal Reserve's letter on market inflation predictions.