Adopting From Foster Care: Clarifying The Misconceptions To Build A Loving Home

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One of the biggest benefits of financial freedom is the ability to spend more time helping other people. Although writing about building wealth is useful and donating money is good, adopting or fostering a child reaches a next level of kindness.  Today’s post is from Jillian at Montana Money Adventures. She has adopted not one, […]

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An Inexpensive And Easy Solution To Improving America’s Financial Health

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Knowledge brings about wealth and power. If this wasn’t the case, you wouldn’t have families spending $20,000+ a year for their children to attend kindergarten through the 12th grade. If knowledge wasn’t so important, there wouldn’t be any private tutoring or a test prep industry. If education was no big thing, there wouldn’t be a

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What A Potential Real Estate Crowdfunding Loss Looks Like

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Let’s take a look at what a real estate crowdfunding loss looks like. When you invest in real estate crowdfunding, you have to expect there will be losses given there are no guarantees. I recently published The Worst Landlord Horror Story Ever, a story about a reader who bought a Las Vegas residential property several years

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Are Personal Finance Bloggers Some Of The Sexiest People On Earth?

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Everybody needs to have a blog. Successful personal finance bloggers will agree. I was eating dinner at my local Indian joint when a late 20s couple sat at the table right next to me. The guy, a new pharmacy graduate from UCSF was with a female pharmacy student. He was buttering her up with praise about how

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Silent Threats In The Night: A Forgotten Memory Until Charlottesville

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With the uptick in racist incidences in America during and after the pandemic, I wanted to share on racist incident I well never forget back in Virginia (VA). Let us stand up to racism every day and share our experiences. The more we can share, the more people can understand. And the more we understand

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The Google Manifesto: Conform Or Perish

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Once upon a time, I was 28 and dumb. But I was never as dumb as author James Damore who wrote a 3,200 word manifesto saying the reason why women and some minorities aren’t more represented at his firm is due to biological differences. True or false, that’s offensive to the women and minorities who made it to Google. Overall, Google’s workforce is 69%

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Financial Samurai Mid-Year 2017 Investment Review

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To eliminate financial distortion, make sure I’m within my risk tolerance band, and push myself to continuously reinvest cash flow in order to survive permanent unemployment, every quarter I’ll be reviewing my investments. I’ve found that after even just a couple months, if I don’t write things down, I simply cannot remember how much and what I invested in. For the past

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