The ads are all over the tv & radio… Whenever they’re not advertising certified diamonds or 4-hour erection medication there’s a hyped-up man on the verge of a tizzy offering you a “free…
Today we’re talking career change, which is always in the top ten list of life’s most stressful events – but for me it didn’t create stress, it very much alleviated it……
The car lease – the sucker punch to the American middle class… The average American monthly lease payment is $412/month with over 30% of cars on the road today being leased.…
Today we’ll tackle the grandaddy of financial fallacies – the home mortgage and the much vaunted tax benefits of the mortgage interest deduction. Start talking home loans with any financial pundit and…
Over the past few years I’ve been reading a lot about Robo-Investing and I have switched a good portion of my retirement account into Schwab’s Intelligent Advisor program. This is…
It’s Spring Break time! Do you have FOMO yet? What is FOMO? Miriam Webster added this relatively new noun to their dictionary in April 2016, defining it as “the fear…
In 1995 I took a very profitable beer run when I ventured out to a Kroger on Charlotte Pike in West Nashville and brought home a 6-pack of Sam Adams…
The stock market did something last week it has not done since 1987 – over 10 consecutive days ending Feb. 23, 2017, the DOW closed at a record high every day, 10 days in…
In a Past Life: I used to invest with a very well known mutual fund company*. Let me tell you, if you want glitz & glamor and feel-good investing, these guys have it!…
When budgeting, spending, saving, investing, and (most importantly) accumulating wealth, I am doing so with 2 middle fingers. One middle finger is aimed at “normal”, i.e. the Facebook-ready lifestyle of the upper…