Answering the Question: Should I Go to Graduate School?
Not sure whether or not to go to grad school? I'm in a similar situation. I know I don't need an MBA to open up and run a coffee shop.…
Before the Crash: Buying Stocks With Debt
I saw a very disturbing analysis piece by Reuters news agency today, explaining how investors are borrowing money (because interest rates are very low right now) to buy stocks. This…
Ten Money Questions for Jennifer Chrisler
Jennifer Chrisler is the executive director of Family Pride, a national non-profit organization focused on promoting equality and justice for all loving families, especially those that make up the LGBT…
Sleeping with Money: Safeguard Finances Before The Break-Up
We have a new category at Queercents called Sleeping with Money. These are financial lessons learned from partners (past and present) including men and women we might have dated for…
Build a Business While Keeping Your Day Job
With entrepreneurship on the rise as a result of people getting sick of working for a corporation as well as the myriad of layoffs each year more and more people…
Maxed Out: When Debt Leads to Suicide
Reuters reports today on a new movie, "Maxed Out," that will open in theatres March 9. It is a tale of tragedy and despair, in which people under a mountain…
Sleep in Truck: Student Pays Off Credit Card Debt
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." -- H. G. Wells Here's some financial news of the strange just the down road from me. On Monday, Seema…
WWYD: Buy Health Insurance or Go Without?
In this week's "What Would You Do?" series, I thought I'd pose a question that many of us have to face at one time or another. If you don't have…
Taxes and Twenty-somethings: Becoming Acquainted with the Basics
Ages ago, when I was a youngling in tennis camp, our instructors made us do a few basics drills whenever our playing would get sloppy. For instance, we'd repeatedly have…
Rich and Rob Go Furniture Shopping
I have a terrible, terrible confession. I'm on the Pottery Barn mailing list, and I absolutely lust after the things I see in their catalog. Their items are rather pricey,…