Most of us are pretty bad at getting healthy, both physically and financially. In both cases, there are HUGE, MONEY-PRINTING INDUSTRIES that, purportedly, help us achieve physical health and financial health. Me wonders if there’s a connection…Continue reading
You’ve received a job offer. Congratulations! If only the struggle were over.Continue reading
Subtitled “What You Could Reasonably Expect a Good Financial Planner to Do for You”
Within two years of graduating college in 1998, I was working as a business analyst in an IT consulting firm and making a higher income than each of my parents: a university math professor and a high-ish-level federal government employee with a Master’s Degree in math. (Yes, I come from numerate stock.)Continue reading
Rule #1: Realize that all advisors have conflicts of interest. It’s not (necessarily) a condemnation of the advisor to have them. It is, realistically, impossible to avoid them.Continue reading
For shorter term goals, the answer is: Math.
For longer term goals, the answer is: You don’t.Continue reading
The wage gap.
The space between your paycheck and the paychecks of the men in your office that confirms your worth is not as much as theirs. It’s a known fact.[1] Yet, very little is being done to understand it, and more importantly, to fix it.Continue reading
I’m ready to embrace my shame.
I’m doing my taxes now, and I am just so DONE. I don’t know if I’m doing them right or leaving money on the table. It just makes me realize that I don’t understand my finances as well as I want to.Continue reading
Yes, I can read minds. Because that is what you’re wondering, right? And well you should! I don’t know anyone who’s not a little worried about their finances. Us financial planners included.Continue reading
Last week President Trump issued an order effectively gutting the Department of Labor’s rule that protects your retirement accounts against intentionally bad advice.Continue reading
is You.Continue reading