Money

Cut Boredom Out of Investing with ETFs

The number of exchange-traded funds, ETFs to Wall Streeters and anyone who wants to sound like they know what they are talking about, has grown very quickly in the past few years. These funds are built by finance companies, using existing stocks, in order to mimic the market movements of a certain index, industry, country

The Self-Made Man: Andrew Mason

If you’re like me, you probably get Groupon offers for esoteric crap in your inbox two or three times a day. And, again if you’re like me, you’ve wondered who exactly is responsible for all these yoga class and hot stone massage discounts you keep getting, and how the Groupon service even got started.? Of

How Everyone Can Afford a Spring Break Vacation

Spring Break season is finally here.? All those people who have spent the winter with their nose to the grindstone at work or trying to get motivated to study at school now have an excuse to hit the beach and the bar somewhere warm.? This has been a pretty mild winter for most of us,

Must-Read: Fix Your Money Woes

Money is great. We all want money. While the Beatles may say that it can’t buy them love, it’s not like they ever turned any money down. Even if it doesn’t buy love, it still affords a much less-stressful and eventful lifestyle… and that’s KIND OF like love, isn’t it? But while the recession in

The Self-Made Man: Sean Parker

For the most part, this Self-Made Man column has focused on entertainers, specifically the ones who got big despite the handicaps of childhood poverty, lack of connections in their industry, an unwillingness to play to the status quo, or sometimes all three of those at once. Which is fine, but TSB wants its readers to

What You Can Learn from the Music Biz

Over the past several decades, few industries have changed as quickly as the recording industry.? From cassette tapes and vinyl records to CDs and iTunes, there have been plenty of chances for record labels, producers and artists to suffer some serious growing pains.? In a way, the music industry has given would-be entrepreneurs and upwardly-mobile

The Self-Made Man: Insane Clown Posse

Okay, so here’s what’s going to happen. I’m going to say things about the Insane Clown Posse that might, given the context of this article’s emphasis on self-made men, be taken as compliments. This may very well be my undoing, because the only people crazier and more easily provoked than ICP fans are people who

How to Afford the Ultimate Caribbean Vacation

Spring Break season is coming.? For most parts of the US, it has been a pretty mild winter, so perhaps the cabin fever isn’t as serious this year as it was last year when the entire country was buried under feet of snow.? Still, February is the month when people in more-northern latitudes start dreaming

The Self-Made Man: Johnny Rotten

I realize that this week’s Self Made Man ? Sex Pistols singer Johnny ?Rotten? Lydon ? has kind of a limited appeal unless you’re into punk rock, or British. Or both, I suppose. But seeing Lydon’s rise from street urchin to nihilistic punk to no-longer-ironic national treasure is really interesting, and it also illustrates that

Getting Ready for Tax Time

The deadline to file tax returns is still a couple months away, but those W-2s and 1099s are probably starting to show up in your mailbox.? If you are like most people, you probably aren’t looking forward to settling up with Uncle Sam, but the more actively that you prepare, the less the stress level

The Self-Made Man: Bobby “The Brain” Heenan

We all had a good chuckle at Ross Perot last week, but it’s time to restore the class and dignity this column demands by talking about pro wrestling. While few men in professional wrestling became rich, the ones who did were often self-made, using their athletic ability and natural flair (no pun intended) for showmanship

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