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A Conversation With My Dad About His Money and My Lack Thereof
by Logan Sachon My father and I recently had our annual recorded discussion about money. This one went mostly okay. Logan Sachon: What are you watching? Mike Sachon: I flip between CNBC and Bloomberg....
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On Easter Egg Hunts and Allowances
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Logan: I just spent a long time reading Wikipedia pages about Easter and eggs and bunnies, and what I discovered was: Eggs and rabbits have been symbols of fertility and...
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Out of Town Guests Mean BLANK For Your Budget (What Is, ‘What Budget’)
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Logan: Mike we both had the GREAT PLEASURE of having company this weekend. I thought we could talk about how that influences our SPENDING. If you’d like. Mike: Totally....
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Just Two Friends Talking About the Federal Budget And What It Means Exactly
by Mary Mann Mattea Kramer is Research Director for National Priorities Project, a non-profit dedicated to making the federal budget transparent. She gives great budget briefs. I have never actually...
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A Conversation With a Single Mom Living on $40,000 a Year
by Mike Dang Mike: Why don’t you introduce yourself. Single Mom: I’m 42 years old, divorced, and a single mom of three elementary school-age kids. I work in the administration of a non-profit. I live...
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Springtime and the Theatre
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Mike: Logan, it finally feels like spring! This is how spring affects me: iced coffees/teas (I already bought three in the last two days), rooftop bars or sitting outside...
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Wanna Be Kickstartin’ Something
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Mike: Logan, did you contribute to that Kickstarter project that was going to fund the next Veronica Mars movie? Logan: I did not. I have never seen Veronica Mars. I’m...
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Mom Advice
by Mike Dang Mike: Logan, are you doing anything in particular for your mom for Mother’s Day? Logan: I will call her on the phone and also probably compose her an email. Maybe I will draw a picture...
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Lines for a Variety of Situations Relating to Money
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon What to say when a friend offers to buy you a drink but you only have enough money to buy one drink over the course of the whole night: LS: “OKAY.” (And then when you go...
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The Billfold on the Billfold (Logan and Mike Get Meta)
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Logan: Hey MIKE! Let’s talk about this week on the site. Starting with the interview we just published with Jake Smith. You told me you thought I didn’t push him hard...
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Chatting With My Parents About How (And Why) They Paid For My College Education
by Jamie Wiebe When I was 18, my parents sent me 600 miles away to Northwestern University for a journalism degree worth nearly $200,000. Minus $50,000 in loans and grants, they paid for the whole...
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TV, A La Carte
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Mike: Logan, did you see this op-ed in The Los Angeles Times written by John McCain? Essentially, he wants cable TV to be unbundled—”an a la carte approach to programming...
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Decision 2K13: Bikes and Ice Cream and Scandal
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Mike: So I started watching Scandal on Memorial Day like any good American, and just finished the eight-episode first season. I have yet to learn who that young woman is....
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A Conversation With an Academic Advisor
by Mike Dang Mike: Would you like to introduce yourself? Academic Advisor: I work as an academic advisor for a mid-sized state school in the Midwest. I have a master’s degree in counseling and student...
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Much Ado About Interns
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Logan: We talk a lot about unpaid interns, but I’m not sure we’ve talked about our own unpaid interns. The ones we don’t have that we maybe could have. Maybe should have?...
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Everything You Want to Know About Biking: Part One
by Alex Baca and Rebecca Rindler Alex Baca and Rebecca Rindler both bike (sometimes together) and also think about money. Biking for transportation is a key intersection of those topics. In this...
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Office Spaces, Office Dreams
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Logan: You went on a field trip to visit a well-known internet company. How were their offices? Mike: Huge. You could easily get lost. Some people used scooters to get...
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A Conversation With a Millennial Who is Privileged Sure But Also a Hard...
by Logan Sachon Molly Mills is a name I’ve made up for a 24-year-old college grad living with her parents and interning in Boston. We talked about her career so far, including stints working on...
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Everybody in Life Makes Choices
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Mike: So: I am a generally responsible person when it comes to money, but do you want to know how I’m sometimes not good with money? I do this thing every now and then...
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Feelings of Doom
by Mike Dang and Logan Sachon Logan: I’ve been doing some binge reading on the NSA and privacy and Our Police State. Binge and purge really, because I’ll read a bunch and then I’ll get freaked out and...
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