Personal finance and money habits

Year-long financial diaries of poor households show how they manage money.

What longer lives do to savings, work and the products people buy.

Two fathers contrasted to argue that schools fail to teach how money works.

Myth, psychology and Sufi wisdom on how money can become a means of self-knowledge.

A nine-step programme that counts spending in hours of life energy.

Survey research showing most American millionaires live modestly and save hard.

A money writer's adventures, from Russian anti-smoking ads to unseen Miami property.

JL Collins distilled his 'stock series' blog posts into this short, opinionated guide. The core advice is stark: invest in VTSAX, avoid debt, and ignore the noise. Collins wrote it as a letter to his daughter, and that framing keeps it practical rather than academic. The FIRE community treats it as essential background reading.

How a college dropout with no family money made himself a fortune.

A six-week programme to automate banking, credit, saving and investing.

How 'safe' products, from money funds to principal-protected notes, failed in 2008.

Why jobs, 401(k)s and frugality are a slow lane, and business ownership a fast one.

Interviews with 50 investors, from Dalio to Bogle, turned into money advice.

Twenty short essays on why behaviour matters more than knowledge with money.

Lioncrest edition confirmed elsewhere.