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Book review: The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need

Posted September 7, 2007 - 16:05 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

This is the perfect book for a Wise Bread reader. It covers just about everything we talk about here--life hacks, investing, frugality--and does it with insight and humor. (And not just a little humor. If you're at all interested in money, this book is hilarious.)

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Book review: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

Posted August 29, 2007 - 03:13 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

Cover of The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

If you're one of the people whose investment goal is simply the maximum long-term investment return with the least effort on your part, then you're not going to find a better investment book than John C. Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

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Book Review: Ragnar's Guide to the Underground Economy

Posted August 7, 2007 - 03:19 by Philip Brewer

Career and Income

Cover of Ragnar's Guide to the Underground Economy

This book is exactly what the title says: A guide to living in the underground economy.

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Book review: Your Money or Your Life

Posted 2 years ago by Philip Brewer

Filed Under: Personal Finance

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Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.

This book is one of the classics of modern frugality, and it's been a source of some controversy. At the bottom, though, its message is a simple one: Pay attention. Pay attention to how you spend your money. Pay attention to what you have to do to earn it. Having paid attention, think about whether whether your time and money are going where they ought to.

This book is one of the classics of modern frugality, and it's been a source of some controversy. At the bottom, though, its message is a simple one: Pay attention. Pay attention to how you spend your money. Pay attention to what you have to do to earn it. Having paid attention, think about whether whether your time and money are going where they ought to.

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Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek

Posted July 16, 2007 - 02:41 by Philip Brewer

Career and Income

The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss is really three small books in one. The first thing Ferriss does is make the case that you ought to figure out exactly what you want to do, and then arrange your life so that you can do that. This is one of those ideas that is at once blindingly obvious and completely far-fetched. What else would you do? How many actually manage it? Ferriss spices these parts up with extended examples of the travel, study, and adventure that he has arranged his life around.  

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Get free 411 directory assistance that really works (a review)

Posted 2 years ago by Will Chen

Filed Under: Life Hacks

Free 411 logoYour phone company is charging you anywhere from 50 cents to $2 for a 411 call. Now you can get the exact same service completely free by using 1-800-FREE-411 (1-800-3733-411).

It works just like a regular 411 call. The only catch is that you have to listen to a 15-second ad, which isn't too bad considering the ads are often contextual (e.g. if you asked for Dominoes Pizza listing, you might get a Pizza Hut ad before you get the number you wanted).

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