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Everyone has had at least one job that was, to put it mildly, not a good fit. Maybe the pay was insufficient, maybe coworkers or management were hostile, maybe the work-life balance was off, or maybe there were any number of other issues. For whatever reason, exiting the job feels like an escape, and if […]

Image Source: Unsplash.com Although many people don’t realize it, the foreign exchange market is one ripe with uncertainty. There are many external factors that directly influence the value of stocks, and they can be political and social, not only financial. Even if a trend is looking up, governmental interference can make its values plunge in […]

If I look back at the best things I’ve done financially over the past few decades, it would be automating my finances.  The most obvious (and possibly important) tenant of finance automation is paying yourself first for your retirement funding.  Given the market returns over the past 8 years, I’m sure happy I did that! […]

It wasn’t long ago that Jack Bogle was a lone voice advocating to Wall Street aficionados how diversified portfolios were the way of the future. Those investors “in-the-know” mocked the Vanguard Group founder for his “preposterous” theory that matching the returns of the market would be a better bet than the more “lofty” endeavor of […]