Hey DQYDJ readers, remember that whole real estate bubble popping thing which started a few years ago?  Now, there is […]

Not to heft blame on any particular entity for the housing collapse (well, in this article anyway), but one of […]

To all of the people complaining about mathematical forecasting in relation to the current election, I'm here to tell you […]

Don't Quit Your Day Job is primarily a site for musing about the absolutely most efficient way of going about things. We don't generally waste our time with saving pennies, frugality, or lifestyle constriction - most of our readers are on a solid path of spending less than they earn, saving, and investing. That said, we haven't been that accommodating to one particular crowd, a crowd we have previously taken to calling 'low information investors'.

I approach the question of 'choice' with a sort of morbid curiosity.  The idea that, perhaps, less is better isn't […]

The last time we talked about the mortgage interest deduction, I shared with you a chart on the percentage of returns in each income group taking the mortgage interest deduction. Today let's take it a step father and look at the mortgage interest deduction geographically.

When you own a website, sometimes you need to type out an article and lay out your lamentations about the decline of something in your culture. Usually, this coincides with hitting a certain age and believing "that wasn't the case when I was a kid". I don't have any excuse like that; my cynicism is a reaction to a perfect storm of articles in recent days which, far from moving the Overton Window, broke the window and ripped out all the framing. Heck, it probably knocked down the wall.

Today we're going to delve into Income Equality, a topic which has been fresh in the American collective consciousness ever […]

I saw this proverb a few years ago through StumbleUpon and I re-discovered it recently. As part of the PF […]