When we’re young, we have this idealist image of the way the world should be. Then we enter the work force, get beaten down by the system, and fork over a good amount of our earnings to the government. Suddenly, we’re no longer as much about helping other people or higher taxes anymore. Instead, we’re […]
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Are you wondering how often should you refinance your primary home mortgage? You’ve come to the right place because I’ve refinanced dozens of mortgages since buying my first property in 2003. The shorter answer is you should refinance your mortgages as many times as possible to save money! Mortgage rates collapsed during the global pandemic.
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In early 2012, I made it a goal to try and achieve $200,000 a year in passive income by 2H 2015. The idea was to somehow make a large enough sum of money to comfortably provide for a family of three or four in Honolulu or San Francisco. With $200,000 a year, I wouldn’t have to go back
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The following is a guest post by Sliced Investing co-founder, Mike Furlong. He eagerly left Wall Street to launch this start up. Sliced Investing is backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, TriplePoint Venture Growth, Data Collective, and Carnegie Mellon. Funny enough, I also left Wall Street so I could focus on Financial Samurai. I spent this
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With the stock market at all-time highs and interest rates zooming upwards, creating a more defensive investment portfolio with bonds may be a good idea. The 10-year bond yield was at 0.51% in August 2020. Today, the 10-year bond yield has risen to about 5%. Therefore, investing in bonds pays more in a defensive investment
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Here are Justice Anthony Kennedy’s words after the Supreme Court voted on June 26, 2015 that same sex couples have a constitutional right to wed. Justice Kennedy was the swing vote. No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital
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With good intention, I proposed one way to help level the playing field through a Wealth Identification Program run by our all-powerful government. By identifying wealthy people who got wealthy through 100% luck (born into wealth), we could empower decision makers to make more informed choices when deciding between equally qualified candidates. Whether a decision maker chooses
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I am a big fan of everybody checking their credit scores at least twice a year regardless of their borrowing needs. The world is a sinister place where greedy corporates go to no ends to crush you for being late on any payments you’ve made, no matter how small. There are also an endless amount
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Have you ever wondered what the average net worth is of your peers? It’s probably impossible to know for sure unless they show you a spreadsheet and tell you. However, it’s possible to make an estimate based on their income, age, real assets, and spending habits. People always say that you’re the average of five
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Do you know what’s fun and free? Dreaming BIG! A while ago, I thought: Can Financial Samurai be the next billion dollar financial technology company? After all, all my writing is from firsthand experience. Further, you are seeing a lot of personal finance sites grow with a bunch of inexperienced freelances. As kids, we use to
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