Wanting your investment accounts to mirror your personal values is important. It’s a way of saying you care about your money, but you care about the world at large too. You’d like it if rivers stayed clean and people were paid a fair wage, while at the same time you earned enough money to retire some day. Sounds like you’re…
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Have you ever stopped to think about the one, crucial overlap between sharks and your favorite financial speakers and writers? You probably haven’t, and while I don’t know who you gravitate towards, I am going to be so bold as to assume that I know what the overlap is. Forward. Motion. We’re living in what I am calling the second…
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Standing in an aisle of food when you’re hungry is a high intensity lesson in delayed gratification. Your stomach is crying out for food. You’re staring down a box of your favorite cookies. You’ve got your credit card in your wallet, ready to be swiped so that you may feast upon the sugary goodness. But wait. You’ve still got the…
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It’s 10:00 in the evening and I am thinking about my first bank account. I don’t remember opening it, but I remember clearly how I funded it. My grandfather made me a deal: he would match each quarter I saved with a dollar and all of our combined money would go into the bank account. If I saved seven quarters,…
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