If there’s one recommendation I can confidently give to you all, it’s that you should never risk your life for money! You can always make more money, but you can never resurrect someone from the dead! The logic is similar to why I think it’s better to retire early than to retire rich. Time is […]
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The largest severance package is over one billion dollars! Let me share with you who got such a record severance package amount and why you can negotiate a severance package as well. Over the years, I’ve received some doubt from three types of people regarding the feasibility of negotiating a severance package. The first set
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The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a way to help lower-income individuals and individuals without health care afford health care. Although health care is still extremely expensive, the Affordable Care Act provides subsidies. This article will look at the subsidy amounts by income for the the Affordable Care Act. I’m a supporter of ACA despite
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There are two things politicians seem to want more than anything else: money and power. For the sake of money and power, we study like crazy, work like dogs, delay starting families, then abandon our children once we have them, all for these two things that really don’t make us much happier. How strange we
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I have a guest post from one of my fellow blogger, Joe from Retire by 40. Joe is good guy who also happily does his own thing. I’ve known Joe for about 14 years and we live quite similar lives. The main difference is that he was able to convince his wife to continue working
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Communist China is really a capitalist country in overdrive. I’ve been covering China’s economy since 1999. Further, I studied abroad in Communist China in 1997 for six months. As soon as Houston Rockets General Manager’s, Daryl Morey, tweeted “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong,” the lucrative relationship between the NBA and China began to
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After publishing, The Hardest Mortgage Refinance Ever, a reader asked me whether I’ve ever considered recasting a mortgage instead. My quick answer was no, despite having refinanced multiple mortgages on multiple properties since 2005. I’m all about getting the lowest mortgage rate possible. Recasting a mortgage can be a good idea if you come into
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When it comes to buying auto insurance, more consumers are shopping online versus calling up insurance carriers. A record 4 million auto insurance policies were purchased online in 2023. That’s an increase of 200% since 2006, according to the U.S. Online Auto Insurance Report by ComScore. It’s not that surprising given the way everything we
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After four months and one week, I finally was able to refinance my primary residence mortgage! I went through the hardest mortgage refinance ever. And with rates elevated, refinancing a mortgage will continue to be hard for many. I originally wrote this post in 2019 to chronicle the difficulty of my mortgage refinance journey. In
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One of my favorite income streams is rental property, especially when conditions are favorable for raising rent. I’ve bought several rental properties over the past decade and plan to continue buying more. A particularly popular rental I have is a two bedroom, two bathroom condo with parking and a view of a nice park. It’s not
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