Many people have negative views on young retirees who pursue FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early). They’re spoiled. They’re lazy. They’re entitled. Their parents helped them. They’re leeches to society! How can you blame people for hating on the FIRE lifestyle given only about 5% of Americans retire before the age of 55? For most Americans, they […]
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I recommend signing up with Personal Capital. They are a free online platform which aggregates all your financial accounts in one place so you can get a holistic view of your money. Here are the Personal Capital new dashboard features for 2021 and beyond. The company is based right here in my hometown of San Francisco and
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Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are getting a divorce after 25 years of marriage, according to a joint statement put out Wednesday on the Amazon CEO’s Twitter account. Jeff Bezos is of course, the founder of Amazon, and worth over $130 billion dollars depending on the stock price. Given MacKenzie and Jeff married before
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There are plenty of positives that have come out of the coronavirus pandemic: better health, less pollution, more time with family, an acceleration in the work from home trend, and the chance to buy stocks at large discounts, to name a few. The U.S. personal saving rate could be the most positive of them all.
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AOC, short for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, makes $174,000 a year as Congresswoman for New York’s 14th Congressional District for 2022. The congressional salary has not changed since 2009, during the last financial crisis. It is doubtful the American public would agree to AOC and other congress people making more given how poorly they’ve done. A $174,000
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Barista FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) is being able to retire before the conventional age of 60+, but taking on a part-time job for supplemental income and potentially subsidized health insurance. Alternatively, Barista FIRE is retiring early but making your spouse work. A lot of men have started to claim they retired early. However, they
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Are you wondering how to start a business, especially as the pandemic created so much job uncertainty? You’ve come to the right place. My friend Michael from Financially Alert, shares his tips on how to start a business after starting and selling one before. Michael took an early retirement in his mid-thirties to be fully present
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Practice stealth wealth if you know what’s good for you. Showing off how much you make and how much you have is not the way of the Financial Samurai. You will be crucified by the public if you show of your outsized wealth. People will also not give you credit for the risk you took
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If you want the best severance negotiation book to provide you strategies to walk away from a job with money in your pocket, you’ve come to the right place. Never quit your job, negotiate a severance instead. After 11 years of working at my company, I successfully negotiated a severance equal to five years of
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An abundance mindset is key to growing your wealth. As soon as you start believing you deserve to be rich, you will experience more opportunities. Too many people adopt a scarcity mindset when it comes to building wealth. It’s such a shame. I’m on a financial journey just like all of you. The only real
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