Education

Kiva Loans: Alleviating Poverty Using Microfinance

In America, we are truly blessed with opportunity to help us chart our own course and grasp success as much as we desire it. Services provided by financial institutions are one of the things that we as American citizens have easy access to, allowing us to utilize financing and credit to further our goals in […]

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Grades Don’t Matter! Be A Screw Up In School If You Dare

Grades obviously do matter. However, here’s a post arguing the other side, that grades don’t matter. I assure you grades do matter if you want to get a job at Goldman Sachs and eventually make $400,000 a year working 90+ hours a week! For all those who didn’t perform well in college, don’t want to

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How To Value A College Education To Help An Abysmal Net Worth

A college education is valuable. However, how do we value a college education so we can feel better about spending so much time and money on collegee? There will inevitably be someone in a net worth related article comment how he or she isn’t doing so great due to all of his or her student loans. Because

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You Are Already Wealthy, Stop Complaining!

If you live in the United States, you are wealthy beyond what most others dream of. Your salary is 99% higher than of the world population. You are already wealthy, stop complaining! If you find yourself complaining, visit areas like India, and Africa, and you’ll see what real poverty looks like. If you moved there, you

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The Top Schools In The Nation Are All Party Schools!

Let’s look at the top schools in the nation. Could it be that the top schools are all party schools? It looks like it! The Top 20 Party Schools In The Nation, Ranked By The Princeton Review For 2021: University of Wisconsin-Madison West Virginia University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lehigh University Bucknell University University

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When Did Being Rich Become So Evil?

With good intention, I proposed one way to help level the playing field through a Wealth Identification Program run by our all-powerful government. By identifying wealthy people who got wealthy through 100% luck (born into wealth), we could empower decision makers to make more informed choices when deciding between equally qualified candidates. Whether a decision maker chooses

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The Best Of Financial Samurai eBook: Invest In Your Future And Give Back!

Note: All proceeds after expenses goes to a charity focused on keeping kids off the streets and in the classrooms. Thanks for your support! After six years of writing over 1,000 personal finance articles, I’ve compiled 35 of the best Financial Samurai articles into one eBook to help you achieve financial independence sooner, rather than

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How Can We Help Level The Financial Playing Field?

There’s no greater feeling than helping people solve financial problems. I’ve always been someone to find solutions, rather than complain or pontificate why such and such is the way things are. Perhaps it’s the MBA side of me that always encourages problem-solving. Or maybe it’s the do-or-die ex-banker side of me who always had to close

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“Fake It ‘Til You Make It” Is The Reason We’re So Screwed

“Fake it ’til you make it” is a common saying people with little-to-no experience believe in. “Fake it ’til you make it” is a pretty dangerous way of going about things that matter. I remember when Milli Vanilli got busted for lip synching. I was so sad. They made their millions, garnered tremendous fame, and

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The Privilege Of Giving Back Through Yakezie

There is always a privilege of giving back once you’ve established yourself or feel like you have enough wealth to comfortably survive. If there’s one thing the Yakezie Network stands for, it’s hopefully the culture of giving back to the community.  To be able to give back is a privilege that shouldn’t be taken lightly.

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