Author: Mr. Groovy
One Cheer for Income Inequality
The year is 1986. For one recent college graduate, it’s the best of times. For another recent college graduate, it’s the worst of times. Let’s now look at some key stats for these recent college graduates—one who happens to be me, and the other who happens to be my cousin. When I look at these…
Building Groovy Ranch: Update 36
My Groovy Ranch update for this week is pretty thin gruel. So to thicken things up, I decided to add an opus update and another retirement spending update. Here we go. Groovy Virtual Book Tour My opus, The Groovy Guide To Financial Independence. has been on sale for a month now and it’s closing in…
Building Groovy Ranch: Update 35
Crazy week in Groovyland. Groovy parents are in the midst of moving from house number one to house number two (they close next week on the sale of house number one). So our disjointed life has become even more disjointed (we’re living in house number two). The mattresses and boxes that furnished our lives with…
It’s Still the Same Old Story
It’s still the same old story A fight for love and glory A case of do or die The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by My biggest frustration with the fundamentals of personal finance is that they’re shockingly effective and shockingly easy to follow. As soon as I embraced those fundamentals, I…
Talking Trash – Vividseats, Chicago, Groovy Ranch Crisis, and Hurricane “Kiss My Grits” Flo
Hello, groovy freedomist. Welcome to another installment of Talking Trash with Mr. Groovy—and another lame post. I got back Sunday from my Chicago bucket-list adventure and I’m still suffering from jet lag. Translation: the North Carolina humidity is kicking my butt and I had no energy to write a proper post for today. But I…