Reasons to Split College Expenses With Your Child
Even if you lived frugally for years so that you can put away enough money for your child’s college expenses, there are many good reasons why you should make him or her partially responsible...
Category: getting it
Step Outside the Mold for a High Paying Job
This post is part of the topic Increasing Income for Women’s Money Week. Want more money? Then step away from expectations about your behavior, what you should and shouldn’t do and what you can...
How Expectations Influence Your Money Mind
Apologies in advance to my male readers, you may find this post uncomfortable. Both sexes have societal, familial and peer expectations inflicted on us from birth. Humans are kid of hard wired by eons...
What Are Non Traditional Mutual Funds?
The latest issue of the Merrill Lynch ‘Advisor’ magazine (which I receive as a Merrill Wealth Management client) says: “If you’ve been curious about hedge funds but felt they weren’t quite right for you,...
Readers: What Do You Want to Hear About?
I thank all of you who come to read – or at least – browse this blog. I really would appreciate your thoughts on topics you want to see covered. Please suggest topics in...
Opportunity Cost
At what price do you do the things you do? Could you be engaged in something that is better paying, more fulfilling, or more rewarding? What is your opportunity cost?
What are Personal Finance Standards?
Most of us in my generation weren’t exposed to personal finance classes in school. Parents were expected to handle that part of our education, just as they had to handle the sex education. It’s...
Single Minded Pursuit of Wealth
What is the difference between focusing on wealth creation and pursuing it single mindedly? Is it the difference between having a life and missing out? Is it the difference between success and failure?
Family Business Successes – the Effect of Age and Ugly
The Daily Beast says: “Economists have long recognized what’s been dubbed the “beauty premium”—the idea that pretty people, whatever their aspirations, tend to do better in, well, almost everything. Handsome men earn, on average, 5...
Best Holiday Buys to Learn About Money & Investing
Money, investing, personal finance and estate planning weren’t taught in school when I was growing up – unless of course you majored in a finance area in college. If you are in my situation...
