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Bad Money Advice
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Bad Money Advice is a personal blog at badmoneyadvice.com about economics and business. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal finance blog when discussing personal finance books and the food stamps statistic. The comments cite its posts as supporting points without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog on personal financial advice and why it is not as good as it needs to be. Covers and criticizes money advice from the media, gurus, and other blogs.
What Hacker News says?
Personal finance books are often a lot of garbage with a little bit of wisdom thrown in that requires effort to extract. http://badmoneyadvice.com/2009/03/whats-wrong-with-the-milli...
Comment linking /2009/03/whats-wrong-with-the-millionaire-next-door.html
on “American parenting is killing the American marriage (2014)”Submitted The New York Times Owes an Apology (Bad Money Advice) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> With hunger on the rise here in the United States—one in 10 of us is now turning to food stamps That's a pretty silly way to state it. Food stamps are how we publicly address hunger in the US, so a statistic about their usage has little to do with the prevalence of unaddressed hunger. Plus, who uses food stamps has more to do with who qualifies and who's willing to than who's going hungry. http://badmoneyadvice.co…
Comment linking /2010/03/food-stamps-are-hip.html
on “The city that ended hunger”