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November, 2007

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Merry Christmas — iwillteachyoutoberich readers get a discount on pens

I know, I’m a weirdo, but I love pens. I was thinking of what I could get iwillteachyoutoberich readers for Christmas, and the first thing that popped to mind was PENS. So I asked my friend Lily (a former Friday Entrepreneur) at JetPens.com to hook you up.
Go to JetPens.com and enter code “BERICH” for 10% [...]

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Why doesn’t someone make politics accessible?

No, this isn’t a stupid frat-boy business idea. I previously wrote about how voting is a failure of the last mile and a simple way to dramatically increase voter turnout among young people.
Yesterday, in the Washington Post, I read this article about how young people still don’t know how democracy works. I know I don’t [...]

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Here’s a chat transcript of my friend and me talking about investing and asset allocation

A Friend and I had an online chat yesterday and I thought it’d be interesting to paste below. It was a real chat, so most of it is unedited. Below, we cover:

Setting up sub-accounts

Why my friend makes me mad for being dumb

Options for getting higher interest

Setting up an asset allocation

Why I [...]

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This week I’m writing email tips — what do you want to see?

What kind of emails tips do you want me to write about this week?
Ever since college when I started emailing CEOs and random people I saw in magazines/newspapers/online to take them out to lunch, I realized I was a little weird. But I also realized I had learned how to write an email to get [...]

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Sleep research discusses sexy vs. rich

It’s amazing how many people think money has to be complicated. I always talk how the most ordinary things usually work quite well — deciding how much to consciously save, consistently growing your money in a diversified way, etc — instead of debating minutiae about the fanciest investments. Take a look at this new sleep [...]

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Congratulations, J.D.

Congratulations to my friend J.D., who writes one of the best personal-finance blogs online: Get Rich Slowly. He’s decided to quit his job and go fulltime on blogging, and I couldn’t be happier for him.

How much have you saved
using Ramit's advice?





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