Author Archives: Rich - Page 3
WWYD: Helping the Less Fortunate
Yesterday MSN Money published an article on the results of a psychological study I found extremely interesting, "Does Money Make You Mean"? from Over the course of nine experiments, the…
Tax Refunds and Other Lump Sums
I actually look forward to filing taxes each year, and I do it as soon as I possibly can. I just need my W2 (this year available online) and my…
Being “Middle Class” is burying us!
Following on Paula's excellent and provocative post, "What Class Are You?" I wonder what we do to ourselves when we're not honest about what class we're actually in? For example,…
Gay-friendly Investing
Last month I wrote a series on Investing 101: general principles for how to (relatively) safely build your assets. But I didn't really address the nature of the companies you…
How Gay-Friendly is Your Hospital? HRC Reports
The cover story of the current issue of Equality magazine (Winter 2007) published by the Human Rights Campaign is titled "Are Hospitals Good for Your Health? New HRC Effort Looks…
Genre Goes Green?
I'm not sure why I get Genre magazine. I think a few years back when I was doing the online dating thing (which worked out for me, by the way!)…
WWYD: Withholding can be enabling
A few weeks back, in a previous column in the What Would You Do Series, I wrote that my Dad had asked for a $3,000 loan in order to replace…
Beyond the Green Corporation
The cover article of BusinessWeek for January 29 ("Beyond the Green Corporation") argues that many leading companies now believe they will make more money by helping communities and protecting the…
Investing 101: The Tax Man Cometh
This is the sixth and final article in the Queercents Investing 101 series. Feel free to browse previous articles in the series. In the fifth article of this series, we…
Investing 101: Inflation and Time
The fourth article in this Investing 101 series for beginners talked about how to buy and hold; how to diversify; and how to think globally. If we do this, and…