Since 2012, I have tried hard to stop playing the status game. After all, leaving my job in banking meant losing status at age 34 when folks are usually coming into their own. After my career was over, I turned down multiple TV show appearances, podcast interviews, and speaking gigs. To be able to just […]
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So you’re wondering what income level is considered rich. After all, if everybody makes $1,000,000 a year, are you considered rich if you make only $500,000 a year? Probably not! In other words, rich is relative and also subjective. When Obama was president, he considered single people making over $200,000 to be rich. He specifically
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I’ve invested in private real estate deals and funds since late 2016. Now I’m in the window for receiving distributions. My investment thesis to invest in heartland real estate has turned out well. Ironically, it was partially thanks to the bad luck of the pandemic as people relocated to lower-cost areas of the country. Although
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With U.S. Treasury bond yields still high, the interest in buying Treasury bonds has increased. Let me show you how to buy Treasury bonds online. I’ll then share some buying strategies to help maximize returns and liquidity. Treasury bonds are risk-free investments if you hold them until maturity. You don’t have to pay state or
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With the Fed finally embarking on a multi-year rate cut cycle, concerns for another recession or even another global financial crisis is growing. Trump’s aggressive trade wars is causing chaos and uncertainty. And with the stock market taking a dive, consumers will likely pull back spending to save more for an unknown future. I would
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One of the main reasons why I wrote my WSJ bestseller, Buy This, Not That was to help readers feel less regret by making wiser choices. Regret is one of the worst feelings, especially if it is a type of regret that could have been prevented through knowledge. The easiest way to stop saying, “If
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Market timing is the strategy of making buying or selling decisions of financial assets by attempting to predict future market price movements. By timing the market, the hope is to make an eventual profitable decision. Market timing gets a bad rap partially because it’s difficult to do consistently to profit. Active fund managers consistently underperform
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If you’re thinking about retiring early, let me share some of the surprising benefits of early retirement I never anticipated. I retired in 2012 at age 34 and haven’t had a day job since. I thought long and hard for a year about retiring early, trying to forecast all the various scenarios. In fact, I
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Early retirement sounds great and it is great for the most part. I helped kickstart the modern-day FIRE movement in 2009, when I started Financial Samurai. But there are negatives of early retirement life that also needs to be discussed. After writing about my plans to FIRE for two years and eight months, I finally
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If you want to upgrade your home, get excited! The perfect time to upgrade to your move-up home is coming. The window of opportunity is open with mortgage rates still high. But thanks to a strong stock market, robust labor market, and the Fed finally cutting rates, I’d look to buy a home now. Once
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