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Continue reading Black Coffee: Cooked Books

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Plugged Nickels & Pretty Pennies

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Love & Money Edition

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Sticker Shock

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Fake It ‘Til You Make It

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Sweet and Sour

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Living on Borrowed Time

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Lying Through Their Teeth

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Final Countdown

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Pillow Talk

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Continue reading Black Coffee: A Little Food for Thought

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Continue reading Black Coffee: More Funny Business

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Continue reading Black Coffee: A Recipe for Disaster

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Continue reading Black Coffee: A Lesson In Creative Accounting

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Income & Outgo

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Continue reading Black Coffee: A November Siesta

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Continue reading Black Coffee: All That Glitters

I first came into contact with the remarkable R.D. (Dave) Blakeslee more than a decade ago - in September 2013 - when he submitted an article for my blog series where readers explained how they lived comfortably on $40,000 a year. Needless to say, ...

Continue reading In Memoriam: R.D. Blakeslee (1931 – 2024)

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Skeletons In the Closet

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Canaries in the Coal Mine