Hit Your Million Dollar Goal by Age 40 Our financial goals are often set apart with different benchmarks, or waypoints, on our journey to financial freedom. For many people hitting that waypoint of having a net worth of more than $1 million seems daunting, and frankly a little out of reach. The problem is that…
Wouldn’t it be great to open your wallet and find a few extra twenties in there? Turns out it’s surprisingly easy to manage, and you can do it by improving your life instead of making huge sacrifices. Here are eight things you can do today to ensure your greenery sticks around. Put a few extra…
The latest undergraduates are running into way more debt, in fact almost record setting financial debt, as per new research of over four hundred college students throughout the U.S.A. surveyed by Credit Sesame. Although the cost of education has been going through the roof, the Millennials, those born between 1981 and 2004, will still be…
The U.S. unemployment rate for December 2014 was 5.6 percent, the lowest since June of 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hiring has also been strong for the past several months, and gas prices remain at their lowest levels since 2009. Current economic conditions are helping Americans recover from the damage suffered during…
If you’re like most people, you made a New Year’s resolution or two as December rolled into January – and some of those resolutions were probably money-related. The good news is, unlike most people, you can actually stick to those resolutions! It’s cliché, we know, but there really are simple and easy steps to follow…
Let’s be honest with ourselves, none of us are experts at everything. That is why we rely on others to help us with the things that we don’t excel at. This is how all of us should think about our investments. You wouldn’t want to invest in a bond fund that is being run by…
Investment is handled completely the wrong way in the finance industry. Think about it for a second: you pay management fees to a financial advisor to provide you with expert advice, and they get paid whether they’ve helped you to make a profit or a loss. When it’s their advice that’s led to you losing…