Last year a Dutch study was published in the Public Library of Science Medicine journal that claimed the average healthcare costs for a smoker from age 20 until death was $326,000.  The average cost for a healthy non-smoker from 20 to death was $417,000.  That means being healthy costs $91,000 more of the extent of [...]

(AKA the “Important Part of New England” State) The most patriotic of New England states is Massachusetts.  Famous for their tea parties and awful accents, this state is one of the most important to the country.  We would gladly give up some other states if we had to in order to keep Massachusetts.  No it [...]

Before we get to the weekend edition I want to address some concerns that were raised with Wednesday’s post.  I used a term that offended a few readers.   I won’t repeat the word here, you can read the post for yourself.  I responded to each complaint but also wanted to speak out to those [...]

Puff Daddy may have been onto something here. Puff daddy and the family-its all about the benjamins Uploaded by louloute23 I’ve been on a hip-hop kick this week. We all know about my love for behavioral finance so when I found a way to link the two I knew I had my editor’s choice for [...]

“What relationship?” is more like it right?  In the past you’d be right.  The priorities of yore were “Ice, Cash, Hoes, and Cars” though not necessarily in that order.  And while those will likely remain very important to the hip-hop scene, a new trend is emerging.  Some songs in the past couple of years are [...]

Pretentious Ivy League bastards they are.  Born into wealthy families and attending private schools, the closest thing they’ve had to a hard job was the 10 hours of community service they had to do when they were caught with pot that one time in college.  So that’s a bit extreme but the resumes of the [...]

By now you’re probably aware of Twitter.  If you haven’t it’s a very difficult service to explain to the newbie.  You can try Wikipedia’s article but I’m not going to spend any time explaining the service here.  Today I’m going to explain a few things about Twitter and their ability to pay salaries.  We will [...]

Welcome to the April 6, 2009 edition the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances, a collection of links from around the personal finance blogosphere.  Today’s theme was inspired by the NCAA Tournament, which comes to a close tonight.  The Final Four are the last four teams remaining in the tournament.  Those teams are the University of [...]