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frugalprofessor Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Interesting 2hr PBS Frontline report on Amazon. It’s worth watching (link). TL;DW – Amazon is big and powerful. Really big. Really powerful. Another Econtalk episode on healthcare economics (link). Fiscal health of each state in the US, published by a non-partisan think tank (link). Two … Read more
Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Several interesting Bogleheads threads: On 2020 goals (link). On forgiving yourself for stupid financial mistakes (link). Giving advice to a recent college grad (link). Yesterday (link). Mrs FP and I really enjoyed it. We let FC1 and FC2 see it the next day. Greg Mankiw, … Read more
FC2 has the flu. She was prescribed Tamiflu which has a generic (Oseltamivir) available. We dutifully filled the prescription for $71.11 an hour ago at our local CVS, the preferred pharmacy of my insurance company/employer. I believe the technical term for the preferred pharmacy/manager is the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (link). Since we were using a … Read more
In the process of writing this blog, I’ve connected with several really smart people. One of the smartest I’ve encountered is reader MDM, best known for his Excel & tax wizardry (here). To my great disappointment, he doesn’t have a blog of his own, but instead contributes on the MMM forum among other places. A … Read more
I’ve been blogging for a little over three years now. The idea for the blog was born as a phd student as I was flying around the country desperately trying to get a job to provide for my 5 kids and justify the 7 years away from the workforce (2 years mba + 5 years … Read more
As per tradition, here’s the card we sent out this year. 2019 FP Family Update Family Highlights: We got a dog. In a moment of insanity, we succumbed to our kids’ incessant begging and got a goldendoodle puppy named Ruby. The kids love her. The parents less so. We’re not looking forward to dog … Read more