Personal Finance

By saving money, investing it in blue chip dividend growth stocks and reinvesting dividends and new capital, I plan to generate enough dividends to make me financially independent in a few short years without having to endure a lower standard of living.

For most Americans their biggest worries revolve around 3 major topics: having enough for retirement, paying for college, and paying for medical expenses. The article below looks at the breakdown among different American subgroups from the survey provided by Gallup.

Payment of money is referred to in a multitude of ways - it just depends on the circumstances. Take a look.

Savings statistics in the U.S. are terrible...because, [while] saving money is simple, prioritizing is hard. It’s very easy to...cut back on lattes to save money, but those little things...are not going to make a big dent in your budget. To truly save money you have to focus on the big picture issues, including things like transportation and...how new the car is that you own. Let me explain why that is the case.]

You’ve probably heard it a million times from financial “experts” – the key to financial success is saving. The idea is that if we save more now then we’ll have more to spend later and, while that’s true at the individual level, it’s actually disastrous advice in the aggregate. Here's why.

Couples can be a galvanized force to either greater wealth or rapidly deteriorating their combined net worth. Below are the top 6 unfavorable money behaviors exhibited by couples. Be open to the signs and fix them - or walk!

Should the Millennial cohort pay off their student loan before investing in the stock market as a means of saving for retirement or do a little bit of both? This article discusses the different options and comes to an interesting conclusion.

There is a consensus in the investment markets today believing that student debt is a major credit problem rivaling other credit problems that were disastrous over the last 30 years... This article seeks to explain the lies, damned lies and the statistics surrounding the student debt myth in the United States.

From corrupt politicians and drug cartels to tax cheats and alimony deadbeats, everybody’s laundering money these days. Let’s say you have a little spare cash and you would prefer to keep it out of the grubby hands of various tax authorities, or you don’t want your spouse to know about it, or your kids. Fear not. With a little financial detergent, your dirty money can be rendered more or less untraceable. Here's how.

The difference between only having a bank account in your home country and having an additional bank account in another country is major. Here are the top 10 reasons why.