Reader David Keuhn wrote me to tell me that he and his wife went to Walmart, and upon going through the clearance aisles, he came upon this game: CHARGE LARGE: Buy Big, Build Big, and Borrow Smart to Win. I am so glad he thought of me when he saw it! Now certainly, we know [...]

You must read the story of Ken Ilgunas: “How do I afford grad school without going into debt? A ’94 Econoline, bulk food and creative civil disobedience.” Ken writes about his life living in a van to avoid the debt of Duke grad school, and that’s after he paid off his undergrad debt. Some of [...]