Owning versus renting your home is a longstanding and often passionate debate. The reasons for owning or renting differ according to financial calculations and your personal preferences. Factors To Consider If you seek to own a home, do you prefer … Read More
We revisit ancient views of money on the ten commandments of personal finance from timeworn texts and stories. Surveying these words adds a different perspective on finances whether you are celebrating the upcoming holidays or not. There is a common … Read More
Congratulations, Graduate! Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Mark Twain College graduation season is one of my favorite times of the year, and I don’t even have a … Read More
” No wonder women don’t negotiate as often as men. It’s like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.” Sheryl Sandberg, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will To Lead” The gender gap remains in the usual places … Read More
In Seven, the neo-noir thriller, detectives David Mills and William Somerset (played by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders. Investing may not be as … Read More
I wanna be a billionaire so f**king bad Buy all of the things I never had Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen. Billionaire, Lyrics By Travie McCoy … Read More
Saving For Retirement Yet? Savings, investing, and retirement are very related, yet the topic of retirement planning gets pushed off to the side. We fear dealing with the unknown, or we are neglectful. Instead, planning early and often for retirement … Read More
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. And others do just the same with their time.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Use Time Value Of Money To Achieve Your Financial Goals … Read More
“There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.” Thomas Sowell There are money tradeoffs in most aspects of our lives. We have many choices and cannot do everything we want to do. For every choice we make, opportunity costs require … Read More
I worked on the street. It’s true! For years, I told my college students and colleagues what I had done for a living before I taught business courses. They would exclaim, “Wow! I never knew anyone who did that!” or … Read More
I have to admit that I am hostile to the term, “Budget.” The word signifies limitations as if I will have to change my lifestyle. Before I prepared a budget, I felt anxious about doing one. Only one out of … Read More