After working for 10 consecutive years post college, I no longer wanted to be rich. Instead, I wanted to be free and went John Galt in an attempt to unplug from the Matrix. It took three more years of planning but I finally managed to escape, or so I hope. There’s just one nagging feeling […]
The cost of a funeral has risen from just $983 in 1971 to over $9,500 today. Unfortunately, the cost to die is expensive folks! Meanwhile, as a result of the rise in funeral costs, cremation rates have SOARED from just just 6% to nearly 50% in the same time period. Cremations “only” cost $5,150 a
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The first thing I did when I got home after receiving a speeding ticket was call my car insurance company to find out how much my car insurance premiums would go up. Interestingly, they couldn’t give me a straight answer. If I get convicted and don’t go to traffic school, I will receive one point
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Did you know that you can make a lot more by working overseas and save a significant amount in taxes at the same time? Now that you know, why not work overseas? The US tax system is not the most lenient by any means. American tax payers shell out effectively almost 50% of their incomes to
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The Courage To Be Disliked is one of my favorite books. It is a must read for all of you looking to improve your lives. As I contemplate returning to work once my daughter turns two years old, I fear leaving my wife alone with two kids under three and a half. She’s not too
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High portfolio turnover may b more costly than high mutual fund fees. With high portfolio turnover, you’ve got more taxes to pay. Further, you might completely mis-time your buying and selling. Everybody should understand by now that high mutual fund fees drag performance down over time. Given the large majority of active fund managers underperform
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How would you feel making 25% less than your peers who do the same work at your same level? I’d be pissed and demand equal pay for equal work. Depending on which study you read, women earn only around 80 cents to the dollar compared to men. Unless you don’t have a mother, sister, daughter
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There is a new three-legged retirement stool we should all be aware of. But first, let’s review the old three-legged stool for retirement. It consisted of: 1) Pension (Company) 2) Social Security (Government) 3) Personal Savings (You) The Old Three-Legged Retirement Stool Is No More Given less than 15% of Americans have pensions or will
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Since negotiating my own severance in 2012 at the age of 34, I’ve consulted with several dozen individuals about how to best negotiate a severance as well. In addition, thousands of people have read my bestselling ebook, How To Engineer Your Layoff, and negotiated their own severances as well. This article will talk about how
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The Yin Yang Investor Mindset post talks about looking for opposite investment opportunities whenever one asset class is roaring. I used the sell-off in bonds as an example of finally beginning to build a meaningful muni bond portfolio to earn double taxation free income. Now I’d like to highlight more reasons why folks who have a
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