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Why prices change faster than your feelings

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We have feelings and beliefs about what prices should be. These can change, but when prices change faster, it creates problems for us. … Read More

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How to handle an oil price shock

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We’re in the middle of a oil price shock. We may have been here before, but that doesn’t make the anxiety any less real. Welcome back to war, folks. Why are we at war, you ask? I don’t know, but … Read More … Read More

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How to prepare for the next surge in gas prices

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Gas prices won’t be lower for long. Here’s how to handle what happens the next time there’s a surge in gas prices. Gas prices are up. Then they’re down. Then they’re up. Then they’re down up down. At the very … Read More … Read More

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Why I want gas prices to rise, eventually

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The price of gasoline, the fuel (literally and figuratively) of our economy, is only in the news related to a change in its price. When prices are rising, you see article after article with statistics, and commentary about what it … Read More … Read More

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Adventures in pointless frugality: Shopping for a gas station

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I’ve been fascinated in one way or another by gas prices ever since I worked at a gas station in college. At first it was just the geographic variation in prices, like how I could drive across the river from … Read More … Read More

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