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Root of All isn't your typical personal finance advice column.
Written by veteran financial writer Jacob Schroeder, it starts from a provocative thesis—that money is the root of all. All including evil, happiness, servitude, freedom. He draws on insights from other fields like psychology, art, philosophy—really, just about any material that illuminates money and the lives we build with it.
His most popular article picked apart the advice to just “know when you have enough." Another argues for spending money on the "unnecessary"—that huge, easily ignored category where you might find meaning.
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An Antidote to “Personal Stagflation”
Stagnant lives, inflated guilt and the case for spending on what matters
Jacob Schroeder
Why We Save Anything at All
Pickles, purpose and a special person gone too soon
Jacob Schroeder