How to Get Rich As A Lawyer

…lot of lawyers are leaking money without fully comprehending its impact. I know this is true for me. I wrote about how I lost $10,000 investing on a speculative company…

The Little Expenses Are Killing Me!

…$40 fitness class (which is probably an excellent use of money). Sure, you could run outdoors in sub-freezing weather for free but let’s not kid ourselves here. How long would…

Guaranteed Return: Shift Your Income

…on the same page financially with your significant other and coming up with shared goals is an entirely different level of complication. First, you have to make time to hash…

Maximizing Your Health Dollars

If you don’t want to pay taxes on your income going in, while its growing and when you take it out, there’s no other triple-tax free way to earn and…

Budgeting is For Beginners

…we’re all on the same page when it comes to defining a budget. A budget is a spending plan. It’s a forward guess as to where you’ll be allocating your…

The Difference Between a Process and an Event

…unconsciously that produce events. You commute to work the same way every day, often crossing the streets at the same places or turning on the same streets. Your commute is…

457(b) Plans (The Foundation Series)

…(of course!), 457(b) deferred compensation plans allow employees to defer compensation on a pre-tax basis. In that sense, they are quite similar to a typical 401(k) plan. The plans are…

Bill & Ted’s Totally Epic Bar Trip

…the student loan company would have turned into $17,434.64. If you don’t like my calculations (perhaps because you refinanced your law school loans), feel free to use your own numbers,…

Savings Accounts Are Not Risk Free

…effective interest rate of -2%. I don’t know an investor in the world that wants to keep money in an account earning a -2% return. Opportunity to make one big…

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