Saturday Recap 5-21

Welcome back to the Saturday Recap! I changed things up a bit here with the blogging schedule. I will make an effort to post at least twice a week. I’m working on some really great free financial resources for you guys so that is taking up some time and I can’t wait to share it! [...]

Fun or Frugality – That is the Question

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This is a guest post from Eric as part of the Yakezie blog swap. Eric writes at Narrow Bridge Finance and discusses topics including investing, debt reduction, and living life to the fullest. This week’s topic is “Balancing Fun and Frugality.” You can read my post on the same topic at Narrow Bridge. We all [...]

How much can you earn?

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Back to Carter… So he decides to save 10% of his income and now he has $768 a year to invest. Let’s see what his account will look like in one year if he can earn 7%. You can play around with your savings numbers with this Excel file. Try out different interest rates and years [...]

Time to Get Technical Part 1

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So enough with the big picture. It’s time for details. Before I start, I want to state that I am not licensed to give investment advice so I won’t do that. But what I will do is give you the best way to create your own profitable portfolio for financial success. I know that with [...]

Economic Analysis for Forex

On a previous controversial article I wrote for Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance, I mentioned an inflation strategy trading foreign exchange. There were 27 comments on that post alone by those who were for and those who were against trading currency. Most people would agree that foreign exchange is risky but I would say that any [...]