This is a guest post from Tyler Tervooren, a long-time GRS reader. Tyler is a practical environmentalist who writes about the overlap of money, sustainability, and personal development at Frugally Green. Have you accepted yet that you’re going to die? Have you? Honestly? We’ve been doing it for thousands of years but, for some reason, most ...

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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="288" caption="Photo: commons.wikimedia.org"][/caption] A friend asked me the other day, what really is the economy? It’s funny, just a few years ago, I wasn’t really sure, nor did I care what the economy was. It just wasn’t something that interested me and it wasn’t in the news every single day like it ...

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There's no surprise that charitable giving is down this year. A recession can make even the most altruistic person pull back. Read more about The Color of Money: Money is tight; give wisely...

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There is no such thing as a perfect portfolio Despite the claims made by financial advisors and planners, in reality there is no real possibility of having the perfect portfolio that performs to your expectations. Most portfolio planning today uses some variation of the mean-variance optimization process invented by Harry Markowitz, and though this system does ...

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