Games
What Online Games Teach About Staying Out of Debt
Many games let a player borrow, and teach, often harshly, how debt can trap someone who borrows carelessly.
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Every guide we have published, newest first. Budgets that survived contact with a real paycheck, and the occasional argument with advice that skips the math.
Games
Many games let a player borrow, and teach, often harshly, how debt can trap someone who borrows carelessly.
Games
Virtual economies, the complex in-game systems where players earn, trade, save, and invest, have grown sophisticated enough to...
Games
Many games teach, often painfully, that the player who keeps a reserve survives what wipes out the one who spent everything.
Saving & Banking
Most conversations about saving money start with the wrong number.
Budgeting Basics
A reader once wrote to me that every savings guide she read assumed she had money left over at the end of the month.
Budgeting Basics
For most of my twenties, my budget had a category called miscellaneous. It was supposed to be small.