Tag: finance
HoursTag Lite: a first-party guide to deciding whether it fits
A transparent first-party guide to evaluating HoursTag Lite for hourstag lite - see the real price of things every purchase costs hours of your life. hou, without an independent ranking.
Free Travel Expense Tracking with Currency Conversion: What to Test
Test local-to-home currency entry, a real travel budget and useful statistics before choosing a free-to-start iPhone expense tracker.
How many hours a year do my subscriptions actually cost me?
Subscriptions feel small monthly, but added up over a year — and converted into hours you had to work to pay for them — they can be startling.
Best app to track spending on a Johor Bahru weekend trip in SGD and MYR
For a JB weekend from Singapore you're paying in ringgit but thinking in Singapore dollars — so the app has to log MYR spending and show the SGD equivalent instantly, offline.
Market Microstructure
How trading rules, information, inventory, and strategic behavior produce observed prices and liquidity.
Budgeting with Claude
Wiring SimpleFIN, a self-hosted Actual Budget instance, and Claude Desktop together over MCP so I can actually talk to my money — and walk into my financial planner's office already knowing the picture.
Betting on the future
In a college dorm room in Austin, a 20-year-old pre-med student turned a $500 deposit into $4,800 betting that a particular election outcome would unfold exactly as he predicted. He shared the screenshot. It went viral. What didn't go viral was the follow-up: six months later, he had lost everything he'd deposited — and then some — chasing that same high on subsequent events. His story is not unique. It is, increasingly, the template. Prediction markets — platforms where users buy and sell contr...
Experian Plans To Sell More Of Your Data
Experian is expanding data sharing with affiliates and non-affiliates starting February 5, 2025. Here is what is changing and how to opt out.
5 Reasons Why I Switched From Mint To A Spreadsheet
Five reasons I dropped Mint for a custom spreadsheet: bank credential security, categorization control, data ownership, transparency, and no ad tracking.
Your Money Is Worthless Here
From coupons to Zimbabwean dollars, sometimes currency turns out to be worth a lot less than it initially seems.
When Pyramids Collapse
Pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes, and other types of scams have taken in many suckers over the years. Are you one of those suckers?
Give Us Some Credit
Credit cards were our first gateway to a cashless society—but magnetic stripes didn't always rule the day. Here's how credit cards have evolved.