In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...

For a long time, owning things was what defined consumer culture. People built their lives around getting and keeping things, like a house, a car, or a favorite movie on VHS. It would have seemed ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has ...

The Chicago Manual of Style is an American English style guide published by the University of Chicago Press. The Manual’s guidelines for publishing, style and usage, and citations and indexes—known as ...

Ruby Box is an experimental feature that provides separate spaces in a Ruby process to isolate application code, libraries, and monkey patches.