Vacation Week
I’m vacationing with the wife and kiddies this week, so no bitter and curmudgeonly posts. I’ll be back after Labor Day, all rested and acerbic.
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Bad Money Advice on Hiatus
I have decided to take a break from Bad Money Advice for a bit.
I currently have four major projects going on in my life, of which BMA is one. Together, the four take up a considerable amount of time, roughly in line with 
what I used to devote to working back when I had a job. The key difference being that I am not getting paid (yet) for any of it.
Giving up some time with the kids is only just forgivable if you are making six figures. If I must be unemployed, I had better be able to enjoy the upside of plentiful leisure time.
And although none of the non-blog projects I have going can properly be called a job, they each have some potential to develop into one. This is not the case for BMA, which, although successful by many measures, is not now, nor will ever be, a meaningful source of income. (A few PF bloggers do make a nice living, but by design BMA will never be that mainstream.)
I am not shutting BMA down. The site will remain up and I expect to get back to it as my other interests wane in importance and/or the time they require.
Bad Money Advice has given me what every middle-aged American man secretly wants, a small but devoted cult-like following. And for this I am grateful. For the few thousand of you that regularly read BMA, thanks for your interest and please watch this space.
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Plutus Awards
I’m breaking my usual Thursday vow of silence to pass along the news that Bad Money Advice has been nominated for a Plutus Award. I am particularly proud of the category: Most Controversial Personal Finance Blog. Fans of BMA might want to drop by the site and show their support. I’d appreciate it, and the other nominees may as well, as they likely achieved controversy less intentionally.
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
The Internet connection at the Curmudgeon household is down, and I am way too old to blog from Starbucks. Please stay tuned.
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No Post, Summer
Summer, culturally speaking, arrives tonight. This impending event seems to have cleansed my brain of post ideas. So no proper post today. I’ll be back all refreshed and bitterly appalled on Tuesday.
A few random things in the meantime.
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- Best of Frank: The Tragedy of Impulse Saving
- Best of Frank: Why Market Timing is Hard
- How Money Gets Wasted
- How to Guess a Social Security Number and Get Famous on the Internet
- Newspapers are So Over
- Percentages are the Way You Think
- Rich People and Their Kids
- The Problem with Target Date Funds
Archives
- ▼2010
- ▶August
- Vacation Week
- The Reality of Saving Energy, Money, and the Planet
- Bad Times for Credit Cards
- Bad Advice at Any Price
- Is The Ivy League Worth It?
- Teenagers on a Plane
- The Problem with Target Date Funds
- 600,000 Dead Chinese Workers
- Complete Credit Card Confusion Continues
- Nothing Down Mortgages are Back
- Random Round-Up
- How Money Gets Wasted
- Deflation in August
- Young People Become Risk Averse
- Cosigning Surprises
- Frugal Friday Dog Days Edition
- Newspapers are So Over
- Textbook Economics
- Luck Has a Lot to Do With It
- Millionaires on the Dole
- ▶July
- More News from Surveyland
- How to Guess a Social Security Number and Get Famous on the Internet
- Why Johnny Can’t Read His Credit Card Agreement
- Two Crazy People Sharing One Body
- The Mysterious Cash-In Refinance
- The Facebook Thing
- Percentages are the Way You Think
- Are Smarter People Richer?
- When to Start Collecting Social Security, Revisited
- Should You Invest in Gold?
- Financial Reform that Isn’t
- Rich People and Their Kids
- Strategic Mortgage Defaults and the Rich
- The Unmysterious Credit Score
- Tax Tip: Die This Year
- Food and Risk Taking in America
- Postal Death Spiral Denial
- The Flash Crash Plus Two Months
- Frugal Friday May and June
- ▶June
- ▶May
- ▶April
- I am Worried About Goldman Sachs
- House Prices Now Boring
- Past Performance and Future Results
- Money as Medicine
- When to Junk a Car
- The Phony 401k War
- Obama’s 2009 Tax Return
- The Usefulness of ID Theft Fear
- National Complain About Taxes Week
- Cash: What It is and How to Use It
- Should Mortgage Interest be Deductible?
- Most Bad Habits are a Bargain
- Consumer Reports and Bad Mortgage Advice
- How to Make Money in Collectibles
- Frugal Friday for Spring
- ▶March
- College Students Borrow Money for Pizza and Beer
- Housing Roundup: Case-Shiller, Suburbs, and Sprinklers
- The Most Efficient Gas Powered Clock Radio Ever
- Some New Tax Proposals
- Muni Basics
- The Times on Mortgage Repayment
- Michael Lewis' The Big Short
- Shocking News for Some
- Food Stamps are Hip
- SmartMoney on Making Your Home Pay
- Stocks are Still a Good Idea
- March Madness Madness
- More Trouble for LifeLock
- The Bad Example of the Secret Millionaire
- Frugal Friday in the Snow
- Whither the Post Office
- The Truth About Mortgages
- Stockbrokers are not Fiduciaries
- ▶February
- End of February Round Up
- Plutus Awards
- Roths for Teenagers?
- More Millionaire Secrets Disclosed
- Is a Fake College Degree Worth Anything?
- The Weird Reality of the CARD Act
- The Incomprehensibly Large Deficit and You
- The CARD Act Does Not Ban Cards for Under-21s After All
- Of Course It's a Good Time to Buy a Toyota
- This Just In: Suze Turns Bearish
- Is a College Degree Worth Anything?
- Another Way the CARD Act Will Not Help Me
- Frigid Frugal Friday
- David Bach’s Start Over, Finish Rich (Part 2)
- David Bach's Start Over, Finish Rich (Part 1)
- House Confusion at The New York Times
- ▶January
- Sex, Health, and Wallet Pop
- Personal Financial Education is a Good Thing
- Mortgage, Car Loan, Credit Card: Pay Any Two
- Foolish Investors Make Foolish Predictions
- Another Visit with the Home Affordable Modification Program
- Is Prosper.com a Good Investment?
- IRA Conversions: What's Special About 2010?
- Bond Prices Go Down When Interest Rates Go Up
- Frugal Friday, Finally
- Invest? Borrow? Why Not Both?
- The Year of the Roth
- Dangerous Books Recalled
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
- Watching Less TV Will Not Make You Rich
- Long Run House Prices Revisited
- Was the Last Decade Lost?
- ▶August
- ▶2009
- ▶December
- Theme of the Year #3: We Are All Nuts
- Theme of the Year #2: Cards, Credit, ID Theft, and All That
- Theme of the Year #1: The Great Recession
- Maybe the Problem is Us
- The Thirty Year Fixed Mortgage
- A Rational Limit to Saving
- Now Suze Hates Cards
- I Will Guarantee Your Treasury Bonds
- Pay More for Less at American Express
- Why You Haven't Strategically Defaulted Yet
- Happiness on a Budget
- Frugal Friday for the Holidays
- The ABCs of Load Funds
- Conventional Wisdom: Retirement and More
- ▶November
- Why Lotteries are Bad – The Third Reason
- House Prices Moderate
- The New York Times Owes an Apology
- The Holidays Begin
- Forex for Everybody?
- Conventional Wisdom: Life Insurance
- Crazy Cell Phone Contracts for Crazy Americans
- They May Just Be That Dumb
- Some More Things I Don't Get About Cards
- Our Ballooning National Debt
- Conventional Wisdom: Company Stock
- Frugal Friday Super Scary Halloween Edition
- The Nagging Nanny State
- 99 Ways to Write a Blog Post
- Conventional Wisdom: Asset Allocation
- ▶October
- More Polling Numbers
- A Piece of Paper Worth a Billion Dollars
- House Prices Bottomed in April
- Even Honest Games Can Be Hard
- Why College Keeps Getting More Expensive
- More Fear and Loathing in 401(k) Land
- Conventional Wisdom: The Emergency Fund
- Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Great Recession
- Post 200
- Conventional Wisdom: The Housing Payment
- The Thrill of the Hunt
- Notes from Zombieland
- The Truth About the Economics of Investment Help
- Why Go to College?
- Why Dollar Cost Averaging is Popular
- October Frugal Friday
- ▶September
- The Money Culture War
- House Price Recap
- Numerical Fiction that Didn't Take
- Forgiven Debt Really is Income
- Carnival of Personal Finance #223
- Five Lessons of the Great Recession We Probably Won't Learn
- Non-Lessons Not Learned
- Cash is Not King
- If Taxes Were Going Up
- The Difference Between Food and Money
- Frugal Friday – Late Edition
- My Debit Card Confusion
- Leveraged ETFs are Complex?
- Stocks are not the Only Investment that Counts
- Pound Wise and Penny Foolish
- ▶August
- Best of Frank: The Tragedy of Impulse Saving
- Best of Frank: Why Market Timing is Hard
- Best of Frank: The Efficient Market Theory Hoax
- Best of Frank: Is Owning or Renting Best?
- Best of Frank: Lightbulbs and Lattes
- Takin' a Week Off
- What to Expect from House Prices
- Highlights of the Carnival of Personal Finance #218
- How to Find Money You Hid from Yourself
- Newspapers are So Over
- Hedging for Beginners
- Carnival of Personal Finance #217
- Why are Roth IRAs so Confusing?
- Frugal Friday Special Sunday Edition
- How Money Gets Wasted
- A Principal Protected Free Lunch?
- ▶July
- Interesting Polling Numbers
- By the Way, House Prices Just Went Up
- Carnival of Personal Finance #215
- Rich People and Their Kids
- Percentages are the Way You Think
- Does it Matter Which College You Attend?
- Carnival of Personal Finance #214
- When to Start Collecting Social Security
- Mortgages, Foreclosures, and the Obama Administration, Revisited
- Stupid Answers for Stupid Questions
- Carnival of Personal Finance #213
- Annuties and Baby Boomers
- $200 Million to be Spent Over Two Weeks to See Artwork in Rural Colorado
- How to Guess a Social Security Number and Get Famous on the Internet
- Owning Rental Property or Owning REITs
- Personal Finance Carnival #212
- Goldman Sachs Discussed in Rolling Stone (?)
- A Frugal Friday Fourth of July
- Home Prices Turn Up
- ▶June
- Carnival of Personal Finance #211
- Roll Your 401(k) Over Into an IRA
- Curmudgeon's Law of Numerical Fiction
- The Problem with Target Date Funds
- Swoopo: Entertaining Yes, Shopping No
- Carnival of Personal Finance #210
- Forgiven Debt is Taxable Income
- Lehman v. Barclays v. Any Sense of Perspective or Shame
- Bad Times for Credit Cards
- Time for College Reform?
- Detecting Bernie Madoffs
- On Money and Psychology
- The Big Dealership
- Saving $71,000 on Your Mortgage
- Identity Theft Numbers
- The Black Box Theory of Stock Market Returns
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- The Roth Segregation Conversion Strategy
- June Frugal Friday
- Any Printed Number is Believable
- A Guest Poster Who Has Worn Out His Welcome?
- Guest Post on Consumerism Commentary
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- The Death of LifeLock
- ▶May
- This Time it’s Not Different
- On Brett Arends on House Prices
- March House Price Update
- The Efficient Market Theory Hoax
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- No Post, Summer
- Introducing the Expensive Loan Option
- Credit Cards and Our Nation of Children
- The End of the Latte Era?
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- The Famous Suze Orman
- Government at its Best
- MIllionaires as Role Models
- Ten Things Dave Ramsey Got Wrong
- More Non-News from the Home Front
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- Oblivious Investing: The Book
- The Subprime Video
- Our Personal Finance Problem
- Fuzzy Retirement Math
- In Defense of the Indebted Kids
- Suze's Surprising Credit Card Controversy
- Frugal Friday, Mayday Edition
- ▶April
- Ramsey Step 7: Build Wealth and Give
- The Times Cheers Up Stock Market Investors
- Secured and Unsecured Debt
- Guest Post on Get Rich Slowly
- Are 401(k)s a Bad Idea?
- Odds and Ends
- Ramsey’s Step 6: Pay Off the Mortgage
- WSJ Pushes Financial Engineering for the Masses
- Walking Away from an Underwater House
- The Bad Money Advice Financial Literacy Quiz
- Two Quick Links
- Financial Illiteracy in Washington
- Ramsey’s Step 4: Invest 15% for Retirement
- Carnival of Personal Finance and More Comments on Bloggers
- The Frugal Lifestyle in the New York Times
- Why Everybody is So Darn Angry
- Bloggers and Mortgage Interest. Really.
- Why Market Timing is Hard
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- The Debt Snowball
- Frugal Friday, April 3
- First Post in a Series: Dave Ramsey
- April Fools Day Round-up
- ▶March
- Other Effects of the Great Recession
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- You May Already be Prepared for Inflation
- What’s Wrong with The Millionaire Next Door
- Who is Qualified to Give Advice?
- The Tragedy of Impulse Saving
- The Great AIG Witch Hunt
- How the Wall Street Journal Covers the Economy
- Is Owning or Renting Best?
- Forbes.com Taken to Task
- Five Blogs and a Book
- King Francis: Marriage
- King Francis: Our Currency
- King Francis: Spam
- King Francis: Airline Security
- Last Frugal Friday for a While
- Buy Index Funds, Not Stocks
- Get Rich Slowly’s Tax Rate Embarassment
- Thoughts on Reactions to Obama’s Housing Plan
- Something Actually Funny from Saturday Night Live
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- The Back to the (Stock Market) Future
- Frugal Friday March 6
- The Best Cartoon Explanation of a Financial Disaster Created by an Art Student in California. Ever.
- What Home Sales Numbers Mean to You
- The Wall Street Journal Guide to The End of Wall Street as We Know It by Dave Kansas, Part 2
- Why You Should Convert Your Traditional IRA to a Roth
- ▶February
- Adminstrative Announcement
- The Wall Street Journal Guide to The End of Wall Street as We Know It by Dave Kansas, Part 1
- Frugal Friday Feb. 27
- Firm Grasp of the Obvious Week at WSJ
- Amex Paying Customers $300 to Go Away
- Carnival of Everything Money
- More on ETF Fees
- Carnival of Personal Finance
- IRAs: Roth and the Other Kind
- Yet Another Excellent Carnival
- Frugal Friday Feb. 20
- House Prices: The Long View
- Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan, Part 2
- Oh Those Wacky Rich People
- Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan, Part 1
- What to Expect from the Stock Market
- Frugal Friday the 13th of February
- Phil Town's Rule #1, Part #5
- Cops and Regulators
- Phil Town's Rule #1, Part #4
- Two Carnivals to Read
- Lotteries and Money Advice
- Phil Town's Rule #1, Part #3
- Bonus Outrage Resolution Understood at WSJ
- Frugal Friday 2/6
- ETFs and Other Mutual Funds
- Bonus Outrage Resolved
- Phil Town's Rule #1, Part #2
- Wall Street Bonus Outrage!
- Phil Town's Rule #1, Part #1
- ▶January
- On Investing Ethically
- Frugal Friday 1/30
- How Much is $887 Billion, Really?
- Inflation, Deflation, and You
- Getting Rich and Losing Weight
- Lightbulbs and Lattes
- Predicting Stock Market Returns
- Frugal Friday
- The Great Life Cycle of Risk Aversion Fallacy
- Never Sell a Used Car
- WSJ Article on New Advice Books
- Not Profiting on Home Improvement
- Big Ben Franklin
- Prof. Shiller and Financial Advice
- Why This Blog
- ▶December
- ▼2010
Disclaimer
All advice in this blog is guaranteed to be worth at least what you paid for it, or double your money back. All persons dealing with matters of personal finance are advised to gather information from blogs, books, radio and TV, consult with professionals, discuss the matter with anybody who will listen, and then make their own decision. Because it’s their money.