Last week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore got together with a bunch of us - the good folks behind 15HWW, BigFatPurse, MoneySmart, …
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What You Can Do About This CPF Thing
The past couple of days have been the equivalent of a 7pm Channel 8 boxing drama for personal finance geeks like me. In the Red corner we …
One-Sentence Financial Rules
When it comes to investing, most of the really important stuff is actually really simple. It only sounds complicated because your financial …
What Valentine’s Day Taught Me About Planning Ahead
There are a couple of timeless truths about Valentine’s Day: Restaurants will charge you crazy prices for a mass-produced prix fixe …
How I Deal With Mistakes
I’ve always had a problem with shoes: No pair of shoes lasts me for more than eight months. No, really. I’m a shoe-serial killer, and I …
How To Hack Your Mental Accounting
Answer these two scenarios as honestly as you can Would you walk for 20 minutes in the sun to save $10 on a $20 iPhone cover? Would you …
What the Slow-Carb Diet Taught Me About Saving
(I know what you’re thinking, but this isn’t one of those “I ate less so I saved money!!!” posts. Read on. ;)) I’m standing in the …
3 Steps To Trick Yourself Into Getting Rich
So there was a time when I was trying to get myself to stop snacking, and NOTHING I DID WORKED. I'd wake up, tell myself that I wouldn't …
$100K by 30 – Why Most People Think It’s Impossible
I love taking conventional assumptions, and then systematically destroying them. Today, let's talk about an assumption that's been on the …