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Paulo A. José

·15 hours ago

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WHAT REALLY MAKES ME DECIDE WHERE TO RENT ISN’T HOW MUCH RENT I’LL PAY

Deciding where to live is not a purely financial decision. — The lease on my
current apartment expires in 7 weeks, so the management of the building where I
live recently sent me a letter asking whether I planned to renew it for another
12 months or not. I had a decision to make. I looked at the numbers. The Bureau…

Housing

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Housing

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Denis Gorbunov

·16 hours ago

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WHY SOCIAL MEDIA ARE THE №1 ENEMY OF YOUR FINANCES

Free advice, emotional decisions, and false beliefs ruin your wealth. — Trying
to make easy money is how you lose your money. Whatever influencers may be
telling you. It’s easy to fall for this trap when social media dominates your
life. Here’s how to stay safe. Don’t Expect to Learn by Reading Tweets Ignore
free advice like you ignore a backseat driver on a rollercoaster. Want to build…

Advice

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Advice

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Ben Le Fort



·17 hours ago

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YOU FEEL STRESSED ABOUT MONEY BECAUSE YOU’RE FOCUSED ON THE WRONG PRIORITIES

Most people act like attention is an infinite resource, and it’s costing them
big time — “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
– Jose Ortega Y Gasset. To rephrase that quote in the context of your financial
life: Tell me what you pay attention to, and I will tell you the state of your
financial life. When…

Psychology

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Psychology

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Rocco Pendola

·18 hours ago

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FOLLOW THE GEN X PLAYBOOK FOR LIFE AND YOU’LL BE BETTER THAN OKAY

Even if you can’t make ends meet in America, you’re not a “failure” — Generally
speaking, you have three purely active ways to deal with mistakes you’ve made,
regrets, or perceived failures: Blow off all accountability and proceed through
life like a bull in a China store. Blame everybody and everything else and
render yourself a helpless, stagnant victim. Shake it off, fall somewhere…

Money

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Money

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Opher Ganel

·1 day ago

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MONEY: HIDDEN REASONS, IMPACT, AND HOW TO STOP OVER/UNDERSPENDING

Spending too much? Too little? The way to solve two opposite yet pervasive
problems and stay on the narrow and winding right path. — We had just moved
halfway around the world, to West Texas, of all places. My wife wasn’t allowed
to work, so our young family had to survive on $31k a year, which wasn’t easy.
Then, my wife started grad school, making things even tighter. In those years,
despite being extremely…

Spending

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Spending

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Destiny S. Harris



·1 day ago

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IF YOUR PARTNER OFFERS TO COVER ALL THE FINANCES, DON’T QUIT YOUR INCOME

Three things you should never relinquish in your partnership — It might sound
like a sweet deal to have someone offer to cover all of your living expenses;
okay, it is a sweet deal. But pause before you jump for joy at not having to
work a regular job or concern yourself about bringing in income. One of the
most…

Relationships

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Relationships

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Aparna Jain

·1 day ago

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THE PAUSE BUTTON FOR HIGH(ISH)-NET-WORTH INDIVIDUALS: HOW AND WHY TAKE A
MINI-RETIREMENT

A Guide To Going From a High Income to Resetting a cloudy mind and body. Call us
crazy, but we put our life and health first before making more money blindly and
without intention. Together, my husband and I made a W2 income of close to seven
figures per year…

Investment

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Investment

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Michael Lim

·1 day ago

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WHAT SHOCKED ME MOST ABOUT QUITTING MY $100K+ JOB TO CHASE MY ONE-PERSON
BUSINESS DREAMS.

“A salary is a drug they give you to forget your dreams.” — I spent years as a
frustrated 9–5 employee. For the first couple of years, I loved my 9–5. It was
exciting. My first job right out of uni. I learned new skills and met
interesting people. But after a while, it became a miserable pity party. After a
while, I…

Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship

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Matt | Financial Imagineer

·1 day ago

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ENTREPRENEURS ARE BAKED ONE CUPCAKE AT A TIME

How my 9 Year Old Baked Herself Rich — This is a story about how my 9 year old
daughter started-it-up and baked herself an entrepreneur by teaching herself
some of the most crucial lessons for starting a new business in just a few
hours. I trust no matter if you’re a young entrepreneur, a young professional or
a…

Life

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Life

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Ben Le Fort



·1 day ago

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I WROTE ABOUT STOCKS VS. REAL ESTATE AS AN INVESTMENT — HERE’S WHAT MY READERS
THOUGHT

The comments were refreshingly civil — Certain topics within personal finance
bring out the worst in people. The stupidest subject that gets people yelling in
the comments section is when you talk about renting vs. owning a home. Any time
you compare two options and reveal even the slightest preference for one option
over the other…

Investing

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Investing

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Desiree Peralta

·1 day ago

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HOW LOSING $15,000 IN THE MARKETS IN ONE YEAR CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE OF
INVESTMENTS

Sometimes you have to lose to learn. — I have always been an enthusiastic
investor. My first investment was at the age of 19 when I started working in a
bank and learned about the benefits of certificates of deposit (and preferential
rates for employees), and from then on, I always looked for a way for my
savings…

Money

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Money

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Eve Arnold

·1 day ago

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HOW TO MAKE MORE MONEY THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE

Success isn’t the absence of fear — During the summer of 1932, for one month
straight, Albert Ellis decided that he would perch himself on a park bench in
the Bronx Botanical Garden, New York City. He sat there with one simple rule: if
a woman sat near him, he’d spark up a conversation. Of the one-hundred…

Money

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Money

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Denis Gorbunov

·2 days ago

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MY PROVEN STRATEGY FOR WINNING PEOPLE’S TRUST THROUGH INVESTMENT ADVICE

Trust is more valuable than money. — It takes balls to buy your first
investment. Your money goes to the volatile world of negative news, high
interest rates, and geopolitical events. All factors outside of your control.
It’s OK to feel insecure. This is why people come to me for advice. Step 1: Get
Them Talking Most adults I know have either…

Advice

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Advice

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Ben Le Fort



·2 days ago

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WHY YOU SHOULDN’T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON INVESTMENT COURSES

Day traders make money by selling online courses about day trading — Trading
stocks is not like learning to play the guitar. Even if it was, the overwhelming
odds are that you will not be Jimi Hendrix. You’d be that person everyone is
cringing at as you fumble your way through “Wonderwall” around the campfire.
There’s nothing wrong with playing the guitar…

Investing

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Investing

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Destiny S. Harris



·3 days ago

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ACCUMULATING WEALTH ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE

It’s all about the basics — Accumulating wealth isn’t rocket science. What’s Not
Required To Accumulate Wealth It doesn’t take intellect. It doesn’t take complex
strategies. It doesn’t require you to be highly skilled at math. It doesn’t take
reading tons of books on personal finance. It doesn’t require you to have a
degree in finance or economics. It doesn’t require you…

Finance

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Finance

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Rocco Pendola

·3 days ago

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HOW TO FIX YOUR HOUSING CRISIS, EVEN IF YOU DON’T THINK YOU’RE IN ONE

Because you can’t keep blaming it on government or the universe, focus on
solutions — We have a tendency to play the waiting game on housing prices. We
say we’ll wait to do this or that until rents or the cost of property comes down
or interest rates decline. But what if what we expect and anticipate never
happens? And, even if there’s some cooling…

Money

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Money

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Aldric Chen

·3 days ago

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ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM INCOME ENVY? ME TOO.

I’m still learning to overcome. What about you? — Oh, trust me. You are not
alone. My eyes are red and dry from income envy. Quite often, too. Now, I am not
saying this out of one-time spite. You might think, well, you will grow out of
it. Well. …

Money

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Money

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Ben Le Fort



·3 days ago

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MY HAPPINESS DOESN’T COME FROM STUFF AT ALL

What makes real people happy — Happiness is in the frequency, not the intensity.
That’s the punchline of an article I wrote last week about how to spend money to
maximize happiness. I reviewed research that showed that frequently spending
money on small indulgences like a daily latte makes most people happier than
large but infrequent…

Happiness

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Happiness

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Paulo A. José

·3 days ago

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WHY I’LL NEVER LEAVE CORPORATE AMERICA

It’s insane. — The closer I get to financial independence, the less I want to
quit my corporate job. The 9 to 5 and Monday to Friday working week model has
become the standard in all industries around the world since the late 1930s
because it was ideal for the manual labor done…

USA

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USA

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Opher Ganel

·4 days ago

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CAN A LIFE INSURANCE RETIREMENT PLAN HELP BOOST YOUR FINANCES?

Answering 7 crucial questions you should be asking… — If you’ve ever thought of
life insurance, it was probably colored by the instinctive unease of thinking
about your mortality — the fact that one day you’ll no longer be around. After
all, that’s the main reason to buy life insurance — making sure that your
passing, as traumatic an…

Lirp

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Lirp

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