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TikTok is full of dubious personal finance myths. Here are 10 of them, and why you should be wary.
Even if you and your spouse have worked out the kinks in your day-to-day money habits, it’s important to reexamine the big picture.
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A few years ago at a dinner, Trey Lockerbie, founder and CEO of kombucha company Better Booch, met billionaire Warren Buffett. He took the opportunity to ask him a few questions about investing, Lockerbie said on "The Good Life" podcast with Sean Murray on Dec. 14.
The shift to remote working arrangements for people in white-collar jobs meant that households all across the country could rethink where they lived. This caused a surge in interest in vacation towns, as wealthier Americans opted to purchase second homes to wait out the pandemic.
It can happen to you. Job loss, divorce, a string of disastrous investments, succumbing to your emotional flaws, being a victim of fraud, getting hit by a risk you didn’t see coming – to people in good financial shape these tend to be viewed as things that happen “to other people.
The intuition behind the predictive relationship is straightforward. If stock prices are high relative to a measure of fundamental value, such as earnings, then subsequent returns tend to be low, and vice versa.
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Like so many others, I want to retire and get off the merry-go-round of unfulfilling, soul-crushing jobs. I have never purchased a home. I also don’t have any debt, nor do I have any kids or a spouse. As someone who lives a minimalist lifestyle, I can probably get by on about $3,000 a month.
Small investors with no background in finance or real estate are making impressive and nearly passive incomes by investing in run-down properties, fixing them up, and renting them out.
The stock market is ending a remarkable year, with the S&P 500 index returning 17%, as investors see an end to the pandemic in 2021 and corporate earnings rapidly improving.
I’ve only ever owned two individual stocks in my whole life. Yes, before I became an index fund/ETF evangelist, I tried my hand at stock picking to less-than-stellar results.
I have never been a big reader. Picking up a book and blazing through 100 pages never came naturally to me. But there is one topic that interests me more than anything else: personal finance.
Investing in real estate can be intimidating, especially for beginners who are low on capital. But there are ways to get started, take it from Cody Sperber. The self-described "clever investor," Sperber started investing in real estate with no money to his name.
Two years ago, I was unsatisfied with my options for health insurance. The premiums were rising even as the quality dropped in the form of an ever-increasing deductible. I am guessing that you might feel the same way these days – most of us Americans are in the same boat.
The startup Opendoor raised billions of dollars by convincing investors it would reshape the U.S. housing market to work better for consumers.
Some of my apartments were downright terrible. In 1979, I rented a studio apartment located on an alley above a garage. The apartment had poor insulation. It would get so cold in the winter, it felt like the North Pole, and it would get so hot in the summer, it felt like Death Valley.
After a turbulent 2020, I’m positive about 2021’s outlook for stocks and real estate. We should see significant GDP growth (3-5%), a strong rebound in corporate earnings (20%+), and a massive unleashing of spending (saving rate back down to ~6%).
We introduced the concept of the Near Perfect Portfolio (NPP) earlier this year. Since then, the market has made a remarkable comeback. It's probably time to revisit it. For most people, especially retirees, it's very difficult to tolerate large and deep drawdowns.
If an investor with $1 million or more in the market thinks that a stock bubble is already here — or soon enough one will be coming — what is the correct response? According to a new survey from E-Trade Financial, the answer is to keep investing in stocks, with more emphasis on undervalued secto
How much are you saving for retirement? Experts recommend socking away at least 10% of your salary, but a recent report from the Plan Sponsor Council of America (PSCA) suggests many Americans are short of that benchmark.
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For tax purposes, there are three different kinds of income: earned income, passive income, and investment income. Earned income (also known as ordinary income) is the money you earn from a business, a job that issues a W-2, or self-employment.