Kitchentablenomics

Practical, objective personal finance advice from a journalist who now lives the life he wrote about for nearly two decades.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Frugal or foxy?

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We seem to be driving retailers nuts this holiday season. Last week, on what supposedly is the biggest shopping day of the season, we came, ...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Action heroes are lousy tax advisers

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More tax trouble in Tinseltown this week. (That sounds like a line out of an old movie that I normally wouldn't admit liking as much as ...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Ho Ho Ho or Humbug, What's your shopping plan?

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Are Christmas shopping forecasters secret Scrooges? Some retailers think so . They contend mainstream media tends to deck the malls with doo...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Peaking mentally at 53...is this as good as it gets?

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Age 53 is your sweet spot where handling money is concerned according to some Harvard researchers quoted by Ryan Sager at SmartMoney.com. T...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Hang on, it's the only nest egg you've got

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You've got three choices about what to do with your retirement plan money when you leave a job. And even though the recession supposedly...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Belt tightening at Thanksgiving

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"When an economist says a recession is over is different from when a hungry family says it's over," said John Hornbeck of Epi...
Monday, November 16, 2009

There are some tax breaks you don't want

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More than 15 million taxpayers may owe Uncle Sam another $250 next filing season, a Treasury Department Inspector General reports. Lower p...
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Gene Meyer
For nearly half my working life, I and some very talented financial planners have been helping readers of The Kansas City Star work through the kind of personal finance questions we talk about around the kitchen table. Now I'm putting my nearly two decades of experience to real-life tests. Not everything I write about will work equally well for everyone. But I will write about how things work and you can judge how that might fit your situation. There are two more things you should know. One, I am not a financial services professional. You should talk one or a trusted adviser before making any commitment based on the personal or general observations that appear here. Two, I don’t claim to know everything. I want to hear and share what you think too. Kitchen-table planning works a lot better when we all chime in. Reach me at geneameyer@gmail.com
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