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The DQYDJ Weekender 5/4/2013

Has someone else already said something like this quote? "I've got a sense of time, but I haven't got much […]

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Why Don't You Buy That Used?

Maybe it's a psychological thing - but us Americans (I can't speak for our Canadian friends, but I imagine they are similar) have a love/hate relationships with the things we buy. Specifically, we love new things and we hate used things - especially in certain categories. It's not a universal attitude, but this being ostensibly a personal finance site, it's an attitude we can try to examine.

But... why is that? It's not like buying used is foreign to us. I'd guess that most of us have purchased used cars and/or used houses - but used consumer goods is an area where few tread.

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Crude Oil Price Return Calculator (Brent and West Texas Intermediate)

Below is a crude oil price return calculator for the price return on crude oil between any dates since 1987. […]

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The DQYDJ Weekender, 4/27/2013

Summer so soon?  Got to love the Bay Area. We're working on building a guitar this weekend, haha. Moonlighting A […]

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Beating the Lottery: When Math (Not Gambling) Pays Off

Today we're going to tell a story about something you've always wanted to do - beat the lottery.  Subtitle it: […]

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The DQYDJ Weekender 4/21/2013

Links We Liked! The (Economics) news of the week was the Microsoft Excel bug which changes the results of the […]

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Were Your Parents Good With Money?

Here's an interesting article coming to us through Time Magazine - fully half of adult children (over age 30) say […]

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The DQYDJ Weekender, 4/14/2013

I thought the recent price break on 2013 Les Paul Specials (the faded Desert Burst double humbucker models) were the […]

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How Do You Compare to Other Americans in Tobacco and Alcohol Spending?

A few weeks back we ran an article that you all seemed to love about how much Americans spend on […]

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What Does it Mean to be Retired?

The internet likes to talk about two competing terms – Financial Independence and Retirement. Sometimes they combine them in an […]

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