I Am Not A Money Moron + MORE

It’s a pretty common story. Boy (or girl) wants something. Boy discovers that there’s easy credit available. Boy convinces self that they can just pay the debt later. Boy buys that thing on credit. Boy gets more credit and buys more things. Boy starts realizing the bills and interest are drowning him…

I have just watched the first 2 episodes of Gail Vaz Oxlade’s newest television show Money Moron.  Very sorry Americans but it is currently only available in Canada and I know how much Americans have been enjoying Til Debt Do Us Part and Princess.
I wish I was a money moron because the potential prize is $10,000 and that would wipe out more than half of my $17,500 dollars in debt in a 30 minute show…

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. I have an itch to change things. A part of me is saying, go out and do something crazy and different. A big part of why I stay on the path I’m on is because of money. It’s not that I don’t like my life, because I do. And this is not a rant about not liking my job, because that’s not the case…

Recently the Wall Street Journal posted what I consider to be a decent question and answer piece on Social Security. A couple of the highlights:

Will I receive Social Security benefits?
That’s a big “It depends.” If you’re over 65, no sweat. If you’re 45-65, you might see some changes from the relatively generous benefits enjoyed by your parents…

Even the taste of beer is enough to stimulate some beer drinkers’ brains and make them want to have a glass, new research indicates.The study was done on 49 men by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine, the BBC says. The participants ranged “from social to heavy drinking, mean age 25, with a varied family history of alcoholism,” according to the study’s abstract…