The key to financial freedom isn’t a great job or even a pile of money because both will eventually deplete over time. You can’t work forever nor will a pile of money last forever. The key to financial freedom is to have an never ending flow of income arriving regularly to your coffers. I asked…
Category: Money Management
Know The True & Total Cost of Home Ownership
In preparation for a potential recession, I have been planning and preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. I decided to take a look at all of our home ownership expenses and take a look to see if there were anywhere to cut any expenses. Here’s an overview of my expense matrix diagram….
How A Millionaire Buys Bonds and Sound Advice from AI
Buying bonds is all the rage right now and with good reason, for the last 15 years the Federal Reserve has kept central bank rates at near zero percent which meant bonds and savings account paid nearly zero percent. Many banks take advantage of their customers and offer a paltry 0.01% interest because most people…
Financial Life Lessons From AI & Why Google Sucks Now!
I continue to be blown away by AI’s ability to answer almost any question I ask it so I decided to start asking some personal finance questions and one of the ones I asked was what are the best financial advice tips for people and below is the response (everything in italics). Live Within Your…
It Feels Like 2007 All Over Again
The stock market has been having fits, housing is not affordable for most people, the central bank is rising interest rates to the point that mortgage rates are now hovering around 7.5 percent. To make matters worse, the Federal Reserve (America’s Central Bank) said at their last September meeting that rates would be held higher…
Cancel Costco, Use Instacart
One of the few places I enjoyed shopping retail was at Costco. I use the word enjoyed in the past tense because I canceled my Costco Executive Membership and I doubt I will ever go back to renew. Let me tell you why… The Good Let’s cover what I liked about Costco. First, the store…
How To Prepare For A Recession
Is your spidey sense tingling? I don’t know about you buy my spidey sense is tingling and when that happens it means an economic recession is coming so how prepare for one? Loss of Job The worst thing that typically happens during a recession is people lose their job. In 2008, when the financial crisis…
When You Change Jobs, Move Your HSA Account
When most people change jobs they know to take their 401k with them to their new company or roll over that money into an IRA. Whenever I’ve changed jobs I usually roll my 401k money into an IRA that has been accumulating all my 401ks over the years. Recently I left a job where I…
Cash Is King!
Forget bank Certificate of Deposits and forget about leaving your money in a checking or savings account. Everyone I know and their dog is buying US Bonds right now and with juicy yields of 5.38 percent for 1 month T-Bill to 5.36 percent for 1 year T-Bill but the going rate for 2 year Notes…
Will Zelle Kill Credit Cards?
I love credit cards and I don’t ever carry a balance. I have 0% balance transfer credit cards in which I take the credit card banks money at zero percent and invest it in high yielding CDs or bonds making 5% or more. I have airline credit cards that rack up miles so I can…