Short-Term And Long-Term Capital Gains Tax Rates By Income

Do you need more incentive to generate passive income in order to give yourself more freedom? Then look no further than the below two charts. They show the 2024 capital gains tax rates by income for both short-term and long-term. The short-term capital gains tax rate is equivalent to your federal marginal income tax rate. […]

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The Difference Between Active Income And Passive Income

After writing about building passive income since 2009, people still seem to be confused about the difference between active income and passive income! Let me finally put this confusion to rest because I don’t want people to get tricked into thinking earning passive income is easy. It is not! In order to generate passive income,

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Rolling Over Leftover 529 Funds Into A Roth IRA: Who Really Benefits?

A 529 plan is one of the best generational wealth transfer vehicles. Instead of just giving our kids or grandchildren money, it’s way better to give them the gift of education. This way, the kids will learn how to fish instead of just be given a fish. Thanks to the SECURE Act 2.0, we will

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The Best Reason To Retire Early: Years Of Greater Happiness

I’ve finally discovered the best reason to retire early. A longer steady-state period of happiness. It has taken me 10 years of fake retirement to come up with this epiphany because I had to experience the process myself. In the past, I’ve written that early retirement isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. I went through plenty

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Foreign Real Estate Investors Are Coming To Buy American Homes

Although COVID has been bad for many of us in so many ways, the pandemic did one good thing. The pandemic helped protect American homebuyers from a resurgence in foreign real estate investors. In a big way, the pandemic has throttled the demand from foreign real estate investors to buy American homes. As a result,

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Fundrise eFunds: An Innovative Way To Invest In Your Future Home

If you want to invest in real estate, consider investing in Fundrise eFunds. Fundrise eFunds are private real estate funds that provide diversified exposure across America. Washington D.C. based Fundrise is one of the most innovative real estate crowdfunding platforms today. They were the first to create the eREIT, a real estate fund that uses

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