How Much Money Should You Save in Your 401K?
Forget about groceries and the heating bills. We need to save, save, save!!!
Forget about groceries and the heating bills. We need to save, save, save!!!
Investing can seem intimidating or downright scary if you’ve never jumped in and done it before, or if you’ve tried in the past and …
I was set on learning everything so I could beat these banks at their own game.
Rather than being a great leveler, bringing both the insanely rich, middle class, and poor to their collective knees, the Great Recession just exacerbated the existing inequality, even as we recover from it.
The first $100k is such a pain because most of it is purely based on how much you save. When you have less than $100k, you have very little investment returns helping propel your net worth higher. It’s all about how much money you can throw in your bank account each month.
The results are staggering. The spending and earning lines move further apart from each other every year by a bigger amount. That’s a gap that’s improving by leaps and bounds.
Investing is one of the most important ways you can grow your wealth over time, but it can also seem intimidating to people who haven’t invested before or who have lower incomes. Investing can actually be very simple, especially since the best investment advice is “set it and forget it.
The stock market performs like a rollercoaster… nobody knows when it’s going to go down. What goes up must come down. Just focus on your strategy and stick to it for the long term.
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just that you do. Read the article and watch the videos: How to Invest in Your 20s – …
Paying off debt and building wealth doesn’t have to be an either-or decision. You can do both at the same time. You will likely …
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