Examining the cost of living between 2000 and 2019: Inflation has played a big part in shrinking the American middle class.
Most Americans are familiar with Alice in Wonderland. The Red Queen’s race in the story highlights Alice running but remaining in the same spot. Many Americans can relate. They are working harder yet somehow feel stuck. Putting more and more energy just to stay in the same spot economically. And many are unable to keep […]
Millennials will be crushed under debt: Non-housing debt now reaches $4+ trillion in the United States.
Millennials continue to face the struggles of living in a world where they are deep in debt and the idea of buying a home is becoming more of a farfetched pipe dream. As recently as 2009 non-housing debt stood at $2.5 trillion. Today it is over $4 trillion, a 60 percent increase in 10 years. […]
The total market value of Crypto Currencies has fallen by $700+ billion with Bitcoin falling to $3,738 from $20,000 in December.
The crypto currency market is in total free fall. If you flash back to late last year, there was a FOMO movement regarding crypto currencies pushing the total market value of roughly 2,000 coins to $1 trillion. First of all, this was clearly unsustainable. While many aspects of block chain, smart contracts, and crypto currencies […]
Financial Independence, Retire Early: The FIRE Movement.
I’ve been intrigued by the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement for many years now. There have been a few camps of thought when it comes to retirement. (1) You have those that say save very little of your paycheck and put it away in a 401k for 30 or 40 years and then you […]