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I'm taking a short break from writing about personal finance to explore a different type of numbers game.
Calories in Ramadan.
Ramadan is an interesting case study for the mental accounting we do...
Key Takeaways
Incorporating your small business in Canada makes sense if
- you need it for legal protection, or
- your business has money left over after business expenses, personal spending,...
In the aftermath of the most severe earthquake to hit Morocco in more than a century, an entire nation endures the weight of the seismic calamity.
In these moments, we feel a pull, a nudge, a call...
Muslims are a relatively underserved demographic in finance. That's also true on social media - financial content creators rarely directly address the Muslims in the room.
So when it happens,...
"I'm so glad I learned about parallelograms in school instead of how to do my taxes," goes the popular meme. "It really helps during parallelogram season."
How do we log so many hours in school...
The biggest money mistake Muslims make is the same money mistake everyone makes. (Try saying that five times fast).
We expect too much from our future selves.
Most of us have a general sense of...
Teaching kids about money is hard.
How do we introduce them to the complex world of finance while preserving their innocence and preventing an unhealthy obsession with money?
Eid.
How We (Don't)...
Waseem sits at his kitchen table, staring at his latest credit card statement.
His stomach churns.
After months of carrying a balance on the card, he finds himself in thousands of dollars of debt...
In his final episode as guest host of The Daily Show, Hasan Minhaj grilled Kevin O'Leary (US video).
It didn't start that way. Minhaj even opened with a compliment for the Shark Tank star:
...
A married woman, let's call her Zainab, needs some advice. She and her husband, let's call him Omar, aren't seeing eye-to-eye on money.
As a homemaker, Zainab is entirely reliant on her husband's...
"Andrew has $4.00 and spends $2.10 on a Slurpee. How much does he have left?"
That summarizes my earliest memories of money. I'm sitting at a tiny elementary school desk, pencil in hand,...
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