How the Wonka Kids Do Money: Veruca Salt

Veruca knew she was the one who got off easy.

How the Wonka Kids Do Money: Violet Beauregarde

The thing was, she’d never been a chocolate person.

I Didn’t Jump Into a Career Change. I Was Pushed.

I started the job on a Monday, and after four stressful, bumbling, tense, days, I was fired.

How the Wonka Kids Do Money: Mike Teavee

He got the basketball thing a lot, at first, until he started walking with a cane.

Talking to Vicki Robin About the New Edition of ‘Your Money or Your Life’

The very first thing I did was gush about how much her book had changed my life.

Moving Forward by Standing Still

This year, we’re not going to do anything new. Instead, we’re going to reinvest our time and effort into things we’re already doing, but not as well as we should.

The Unsettlers: A Billfold Book Review

I read Mark Sundeen’s The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America specifically because Riverhead Books did a 2018 Book Horoscope post and listed it as a good pick for Scorpios.

What If Everyone Put Their Retirement Savings Into Annuities?

With this plan, we’d be pooling our investments to fund everyone else’s retirements as well as our own.

Rereading Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Her famous essay is actually about the benefits of basic income.

S Is for Self-Sufficiency: What Sue Grafton’s Mystery Novels Tell Us About Money

Kinsey Millhone cuts her own hair, uses coupons, and wears the same black dress over and over.