Young and Frugal

Business and Personal Finance for Millennials

Entries for January, 2009

Bigger than Madoff: Entitlement Programs

Note: I try my hardest to keep politics off of Young and Frugal, but this is an issue that I think transcends political beliefs.  This is a real problem that needs to be dealt with soon and I’m trying to take a non-partisan approach to it.
Bernard Madoff is a name that you should know (unless [...]

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Entrepreneur Mentor Society

As I’m sure you can tell, I love business and personal finance (why else would I create a blog about it?), but what many of you might not know is that my true passion lies in entrepreneurship.  My passion came about in college when I decided to surround myself with the people I wanted to [...]

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Control Money or Money Will Control You

Since I began writing, about a year ago, “Frugal” has become quite the buzzword which is practically a 180 from when I wrote “When Did Frugality Cease Being a Virtue.”  I even read an article in the Wall Street Journal last week that proclaimed Frugality is once again a virtue.
When I began writing, I’m not [...]

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Gen-Y, Why Are You Worried?

It seems like there are too many young people worrying these days.  As I checked Facebook on New Years I read way too much of the “Thank God 2008 is over!” or “2008 Sucked! Let’s hope for a better ‘09″ status updates.  Quite frankly, 2008 was a pretty good year for me.  Mary and I [...]

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