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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If you want to know how to get very rich, the answer is to build equity in a business. The majority of the very rich are business owners, and/or hold equity in other businesses. One of the luckiest things I’ve ever done was not sell any major assets during the downturn between 2009 – 2012. It’s
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If you’ve got a pension, count yourself as one of the lucky ones. A pension is more valuable than you realize. With a pension, you won’t be forced to lower your safe withdrawal rate in retirement like those of use who don’t have pensions. This post will help you calculate the value of a pension.
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I moved from annual reviews to quarterly reviews this year, but with how quickly April flew by, I just had to write another! April was supposed to be a terrible month based on the downward trajectory we were experiencing in March. It was easy to imagine the S&P 500 heading below 2,000. However, financially, April
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