OK, I gave it a shot. The Weakonomist tried to do the traditional personal finance blog thing. It didn’t work. The dry, daily content was slowly killing me. I love personal finance and its my passion, but I can’t do what the other blogs are doing. Those close to me know I didn’t get to [...]

In spring of 2007, I realized the free membership to the school gym expires with my graduation in the coming months. I needed a new way to exercise. Turning to running, I found I could do it quite well and got pretty good over the summer. I ran in some short distance races, and while [...]

Last time we awarded a Weaky, it was for someone that may have ruined her life on her mistake. It will be easy to agree that with today’s Weaky, no lives are ruined. The winner for Weaky #2 is Sheila. A proud mother, and a waste of hair dye. How did she win a Weaky? [...]

Many times on this blog I’ve mentioned my fascination with behavioral finance. Behavioral finance, sometimes called behavioral economics, is a field that studies how the mind and emotion impacts the economic decision making process. In other words, why feelings get in the way of making logical decisions with our money. Behavioral finance can be broken [...]

Welcome to Weakon 149: Financial Licenses and Certifications. What I’ve compiled here is one of the most extensive lists of financial certifications and licenses. Have you ever seen a business card of some advisor with a hundred letters on the end of his name? I do all the time because of the nature of my [...]

This falls into the Weakonomics category of government setting a bad example. The US Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the largest government entities in the US system. With hundreds of thousands or employees and a budget over $70 billion (yes billion) they might set the standard of a fat beurocracy. Don’t get me [...]

YIKES! The tax deadline is tomorrow!!! Good thing I did my taxes 2 months ago. CPAs around the country are getting time and a half today, as they have for the past month. My tax guy does so well he only works from Jan-April each year. He takes the rest of the year off. Today [...]

Here at Weakonomics we like to take the weekends off. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have something for you to read. I like to recap a couple of older posts, talk about myself, and link to something that has nothing to do with money. Today I want to talk about giving back. Like many [...]