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New Jobs and Unemployment: May 2024
Observations: The 272,000 new jobs for May 2024----a robust total. This dims the hope that the Fed would decrease interest rates at...
Bill Knudson
Jun 8, 20243 min read


Make Housing Affordable By Being Adaptable
Younger people face homeownership headwinds not faced by their parents. For many, it is more challenging to get on the homeownership...
Jeff Hulett
May 30, 20241 min read


$9 million good reasons! - The case for homebuying
“Homes are so expensive and the process seems complicated!” is commonly heard by people considering buying a house. Today – we make the...
Jeff Hulett
May 30, 20241 min read


Patti’s College Xoice® – Empowering High School Students and Their Families to Make the Best College Decisions.
Hi! My name is Patti Hulett. I have been a mom, teacher, tutor, and life coach for 30 years. I specialize in helping high school...
Jeff Hulett
May 10, 20241 min read


Optimizing Personal Finance Decisions: Budgets, Credit, and Investing
Credit Personal finance decisions permeate our daily lives. From budgeting and saving to investing and retirement planning, the choices...

Jara Jones
May 8, 20248 min read


Negotiating the best habits and the commitment device!
Commitment devices are great ways to achieve those good 'should do, but hard to do' habits. We explore why commitment devices lead to...
Jeff Hulett
Apr 29, 20242 min read


Hulett Brothers Co-president David Hulett discusses negotiation, business growth, and banning TikTok
We wrap up negotiation month with an interview with Hulett Brothers Co-president David Hulett. Listen in to learn about the Hulett...
Jeff Hulett
Apr 23, 20241 min read


Personal Finance Reimagined for Professional Services
Contact: Jeff Hulett jeff@thecuriosityvine.com Arrange a meeting It is common knowledge that the United States has increasing wealth...
Jeff Hulett
Apr 17, 20244 min read


Top 10 suggestions for growing a data science career
Activate this link for the mobile formatted version. Data science can mean many things to many people. Next is a "day-in-the-life"...
Jeff Hulett
Apr 11, 20244 min read


Top 10 suggestions for growing a data science career
Activate this link for the desktop formatted version. Data science can mean many things to many people. Next is a "day-in-the-life"...
Jeff Hulett
Apr 10, 20244 min read


Cutting Through Complexity: A Car Buying Journey - Part 1
Today we switch gears. Last month we explored success! This was a big, broad subject with lots of suggestions about behavior and...
Jeff Hulett
Feb 3, 20242 min read


Making confident decisions in a world drowning in data
We are culturally and genetically wired to seek more information and alternatives to make the best decision. The best decisions lead to...
Jeff Hulett
Feb 1, 20245 min read


What the students are saying! Praise for Personal Finance education and Making Choices, Making Money
"It taught me how to think about personal finance, instead of just telling me what it was and how to do it." —Jada L "Hulett's teaching...
Jeff Hulett
Jan 17, 20241 min read


The power of mindset and harvesting time
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide. Today, I will show you how to make...
Jeff Hulett
Jan 16, 20241 min read


Unlocking Wealth in the Platform Economy: Strategies for Investors and Consumers
The data-intensive, high-bandwidth information era has created massive improvements in economic efficiency. Our roads have been...
Jeff Hulett
Jan 14, 202433 min read


What they are saying! Praise for Making Choices, Making Money
“Jeff’s decision process-first focus is a personal finance game changer. Providing a consistent, repeatable process is essential to...
Jeff Hulett
Nov 30, 20233 min read


Win The Data War: How normal people can survive and thrive in the data abundance era
There is a gap between most people's statistical understanding and the practice of data science. The tech world has an unsavory drug...
Jeff Hulett
Nov 29, 202366 min read


Challenging Our Beliefs: Expressing our free will and how to be Bayesian in our day-to-day life
Do we have free will to make life-changing decisions? This is the question I explore and seek to answer in this article. Changing our...
Jeff Hulett
Nov 25, 202338 min read


Making the power of convexity work for you - how small investments make a big difference
This article explores convexity. Convexity is also known as non-linear growth. Non-linear growth is what makes small investments in...
Jeff Hulett
Nov 20, 202319 min read


Personal Finance Reimagined
We need to teach and practice personal finance more in line with how people naturally learn and make decisions. The common approach...
Jeff Hulett
Nov 17, 20237 min read
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