HumbleDollar

I like to think of myself as a decent planner, and when I spend money I like to make sure I'm getting value. Both qualities were very much on display last August when I booked a trip to Valencia, Spain, to witness a total solar eclipse. The planning had started years earlier. Solar eclipses are predictable to the minute centuries in advance, and I'd known about the Spanish ecli...

Do you know Peter Cancro? Peter is 69 years old and someone to be admired, someone who started out very ordinary and in one transaction became a new US billionaire, around $4.9 billion netted from selling his business. 

I greatly admire such people, I wish I was as ambitious, a risk taker and committed to success. Sure he had help along the way, notably his high s...

JONATHAN CLEMENTS’S final book was released this week. Titled Money and Me, it traces the arc of Jonathan’s nearly four-decade career as a personal finance columnist.

Money and Me starts with the story of a man named George Cope, who was a nineteenth century tobacco baron. At the time of his death in 1888,

WHEN I STARTED writing for HumbleDollar, Jonathan gave me some simple but important advice: “Don’t brag about your financial situation. You want readers to like you.” Perhaps that’s one of the reasons he named his financial site HumbleDollar.

I try to follow this advice not only regarding money, but in other aspects of my life. I know how fleeting thin...

We have now emerged from the hellish phase of moving and are settling into our new home. Our condo sale closed on Tuesday, all the money went where it was supposed to go, and our first new mortgage payment is due on Monday.

I have found it quite amazing/shocking how many expenses there have been over the last few weeks for both ends of the transaction. I’m not talking ...