Mulling Over Money Matters
While some may be glued to their sports feeds, watching as the brackets winnow down to the “Final Four,” for many families with college bound/aged kids, March takes on a different type of madness as financial aid letters come out and the clock for decision making starts to tick ever louder. Making “cents” of these letters can be confusing at best and, in worst case scenarios, a lesson in fiscal catastrophe. To help with the situation, the federal government has read more
Brrrr…. While I don’t mind the snow, this chilly stuff does wear on one’s soul… a cold day to swap out my bumper stickers. For those who don’t know, I change my bumper stickers bi-monthly or so by way of these handy little sleeves made just for that purpose. The current ones read: “A Man is NOT a Financial Plan” and “I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.” I own 30 read more
I have, without a doubt, evolved into a financial nerd – Wednesday morning on my way to work my odometer turned “259952” just as I looked down at it. That numeric thrill kept me going for a full day. Take that Fibonacci (a little mathematical reference for my fellow numbers nerds…). The second was perusing the various articles that have popped up recently relating to Americans living paycheck to paycheck, housing costs skyrocketing, and the ever-widening wealth gap. What jumped read more