As I mentioned in my earlier post, I am on holiday. While I thought being away from work would mean higher productivity for EM, sadly that hasn’t happened. My brain seems to be taking a holiday from all possible productive work. However, the good thing about money is that I am nowhere close […]
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What My 6 yo Nephew Taught Me About Our Money Instincts
I have been fortunate to have been spending some quality time with my six (or six and one quarter, as he now puts it) year old nephew. On my holiday, we have been playing, looking around, sightseeing, eating yummy food and just spending quality time. On one of the days out, we were waiting […]
The Complete Guide to Home Loans
One of the biggest and most popular financial products which actually has the might and the size to shake economies is Home Loan. Any rate change for home loans makes the front page of newspapers. The inability of a large number of people to pay it back in 2007 in the US was enough […]
Dating and Money
For a long time, I had been considering the idea of exploring the multiple facets of money in the life stage of dating. Granted, my ideas and personal experience about dating might be a little outdated considering it’s now almost 7 years since I first started dating my husband and almost 4 since we got […]
Book Club – Nudge
For a long time now, I have been a huge fan of podcasts. They make my commute much more entertaining and sometimes even enlightening. One of my favorite podcasts has been Freakonomics radio. About a year back they recorded an episode called Big Returns from Thinking Small with two Strategists Owain Service and Rory […]
The Complete Guide to Credit Cards
In whatever money conversations I have had till date, I have realized that credit cards still seem to be an elusive subject. In one of the consumer research that we had conducted among millennials, there were quite a few who had sworn against using them for fear of over-spending while one guy used […]
Book Club – The Bogleheads Guide To Investing
When I started out with becoming the personal finance geek that I am today, being a bibliophile I looked up for personal finance book recommendations. There are a lot of sources recommending varied kinds of books, all geared to either help you think better or streamline your processes when it comes to personal finance. […]
The Time For Financial Feminism Has Come
Since the time I defined a clear sharper focus area for Elementum Money, things are more sorted in my head. I realized that the movement I would really like to see happening is Financial Feminism. Being an alumnus of a widely recognized feminist college, Lady Shri Ram (Delhi University), I recognize it as […]
Your Complete Guide to Credit Score
When I joined my first bank, I was a part of the Loans team. My first few days were spent in the credit or loan processing centres. It was a fascinating look at the back end of how the calculations are made as to the loan amount to be sanctioned and the process involved in […]
Book Club – Thinking Fast and Slow
Thinking fast and slow is a legendary book which explores the intersection between psychology and economics. You might be wondering, how exactly do psychology and economics intersect? The book urges you to think of the rational human we encounter in our economics theory and the emotional humans that we encounter in real life. The psychology […]