Housing Math 101

Housing remains as a major topic on the blog so we’ll go ahead and do a short break down on how to think about...

Personal Income Taxes: Why We Think You Should Be Liquid

We recently wrote about some quick tricks to hacking your 401K and many emails came in about a Roth IRA and tax rates for...

Basics To Personal Debt

If you are debt free, you can skip this post entirely. The purpose of this post  is to allow readers to begin with a...

Basic Guide to Understanding a Stock: Facebook Example

Assuming that you have access to no financial products such as FactSet, Bloomberg, CapitalIQ, Thomson or otherwise, we thought it would be helpful to...

The Solution to Identity Security

As many of you may know, the NSA has been spying on us for years. This includes tapping phone calls, reading emails and surely...

Review of Choose Yourself

We recently read James Altucher’s book Choose Yourself. We picked it up read it and sent him the confirmation. The irony is strong on...

The Worst Question In The World

No hate. Mistakes were made. We’ve all made this major one. Here is the worst question in the World. “What if?” What if I lose my...

Recycling Credit Cards

Back in the day, living below the poverty level, my big idea for making money was recycling. I used to pick up aluminum cans...

Cover Letter

We have gotten a lot of emails about this, before we begin here are the reasons why your cover letter does not matter. We...

Lessons From Growing Up Broke

After thinking about this for quite sometime, a review of a journal started over 20 years ago was pulled out from underneath my desk...