If You Don’t Know Money, You Need to Watch this Guy in a Turban

Slaking my thirst for personal finance knowledge usually meant running to blogs and podcasts. But lately, that has changed. I now imbibe far more personal finance knowledge via YouTube videos than blogs and podcasts. And one of my favorite personal finance YouTubers is a guy named Jaspreet Singh. Check out his recent video on The …

No One Ever Said Building a Bison Was Going to Be Easy

There’s no Dave Ramsey of scrap-metal welding. In other words, I can’t fire up my Kindle and download The Seven Baby Steps to Building Your First Lifesize Bison out of Scrap Metal. Aside from the John Lopez video below, I’m basically on my own. Just me and whatever critical-thinking skills I have left from nine …

2020 Statement of Purpose

What’s the point of this blog? When Mrs. G and I first began this blog over four years ago, it was a clear-cut personal finance blog. Mrs. G and I got our financial act together rather late in life (mid-40s), and we thought our quest for financial independence was an interesting story. But since that …

Where Are the Constituents’ Yachts?

In my lifetime, the government footprint has grown tremendously. When I was born, for instance, way back in 1961, there was no such thing as Medicare, Medicaid, student loans, seatbelt laws, and background checks for handgun purchases. The national debt was only $289 billion (versus $23 trillion today), and the federal register only contained 12,792 …