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A Society of Fear

Posted October 28, 2009 - 05:00 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Career and Income

Worker in front of American Flag with the text "Free Labor Will Win"

There are people out there whose livelihoods depend on the fact that most people go every day to some job or another. Business owners, investors, retired folks -- capitalists in general -- pay their expenses with profits that would be threatened if there weren't plenty of workers trading their life for a paycheck.

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What's Your Financial Philosophy? What It Means To Live Below Your Means

Posted February 4, 2009 - 14:38 by Silicon Valley Blogger

Personal Finance

financial philosophy, live below your means, save money

I hope you'll permit me to speculate a little on what it means to live below our means. When you think about it, there are various ways to address our financial goals, which I'll categorize into three basic approaches: you can cut costs, increase your income or do a combination of both. How do you go about saving money and building your net worth?

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Book review: Supercapitalism

Posted February 7, 2008 - 07:17 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

Cover of Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich

For most of the 20th century, capitalism and democracy seemed to go hand-in-hand. After all, every democratic country was largely capitalist and nearly every capitalist country was, at least to some extent, democratic. What we've seen since the 1970s, though, has been a huge upswing in capitalism, while democracy has weakened. Robert Reich's book is about how this happened and what we might do about it.

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