Tag: Dave Ramsey

90 Days of Rush Limbaugh: It’s Enough to Make Me Miss Dave Ramsey

It’s been 90 days since I first heard Rush Limbaugh come out of my radio where once Dave Ramsey had been. Pre-2014, I’d been doing here and there 15-minute Dave Ramsey listenings as a part of my morning twa-let, and can quite unequivocally state that, even though I often disagreed […]

Nearer Thy Financial Numbers to Thee: January is the Best Month for Updating Your Understanding of What the Numbers in Your Financial Life Look Like

In a piece I wrote last week, I mentioned that lots of people have at best only a vague idea about what the numbers in their lives look like. I also added that this I-see-nothing approach to one’s financial life is, to say the least, not optimal, and then I […]

Life Insurance and the Elderly: Leveraged, Already-Bought Assets that Should Not be Wasted

I just caught the tail end of a Dave Ramsey segment (he of AM radio financial advice call-in show) during which Dave, hater of all things debt, recommended that a son tell his 80-something year old parents to surrender a life insurance policy that had a death benefit of $150k […]

A Scale-Tale: How Big is a Business with 400 Employees?

I am a student of scale — a collector of scale-tales. It all began decades ago with the wonderful book The Seven Mysteries of Life, by Guy Murchie, a life’s-work sort of undertaking for him, full of interesting notions interspersed with the author’s cute drawings and beginning with a chapter […]

Living Trusts are All About Avoiding Men in Black Robes

This edition of Friedman’s Law of the First Thing is about living trusts — what are they, what are they good for (absolutely somethin’) and what are they not good for? *  *  * In a weird way, Dave Ramsey is my muse — I hear him say something on […]

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