Financial Geekery

When should you use it? Where does it fit in your overall portfolio? Can you invest it? All good questions. Welcome to emergency savings 201

The concept of "Plan B" is extremely useful for two main reasons, either of which may be more important depending on what kind of

Aren't you supposed to invest more conservatively in retirement? Isn't your investment management strategy supposed to change at tha

In my experience, when an enginerd first dives into investing, they wind up in one of two places: bogleheads.org or Motley Fool. There's

What is an HSA, exactly? Why would you want one, why wouldn't you want one, and what's involved? Glad you asked!

Some of you are doubtless reading this and thinking, "It's simple: does my 401(k) balance go up every year?" Sadly, it's n

As any statistician will tell you, just because there's randomness in the system doesn't mean we can't make plans around it. Mor

You've got stock worth a hefty chunk of change...but if you sell, you'll have to pay taxes on the sale. So: what do you do?

It was a scene straight out of The Graduate.

It's been a year since I wrote my post on bitcoin, and now I'm having similar conversations around marijuana. Apparently, some messa