Investing your money isn’t easy. There are tons of high-pressure decisions to be made and the amount of information you have to sort through to find the quality stuff is near impossible sometimes. Despite this, it’s important to push through the difficulties in order to help out your future self in retirement. There are a [...]
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Stock Market Swings Don’t Matter
Last week the Dow Jones had a its quickest collapse ever at 1,000 points and a rough day overall dropping 348. Due to the trouble in Greece, political unrest in Thailand and the Icelandic volcanic the markets have been a little rocky lately. But these reasons don’t really matter and could just be weak attempts [...]
My Curriculum for Money Education in High School
Ever since I started learning about money in the summer of 2008, I’ve been fascinated with the lack of money education in our lives. No one teaches us anything about money, yet, every single person in this world deals with money every day. America’s a nation that repeatedly struggles when it comes to money, but [...]
Why 99.7% of People Should Avoid Actively Trading Stocks
When it comes to investing your money for retirement, long, or short-term savings there are a couple of boats you can find yourself in. Certain people subscribe to the buy and hold strategy. Usually these people purchases cheap index funds or mutual funds and hold them for decades since the stock market has historically returned [...]
Vittana: Help a Student in a Developing Nation Go to College
Peer-to-peer lending has soared in popularity lately. You can make loans to entrepreneurs around the world with Kiva or you can help someone with their debt through Lending Club. A new p2p company that I was recently introduced to is Vittana. Vittana wants to get people around the world to college. In America and other developed countries, [...]
Foreign Savings Accounts and CDs (Not Just For Those Abroad)
As currencies like the Euro and China’s yuan become more popular, the days of the dollar dominating the world’s financial markets could be a thing of the past. So what does a weakening dollar mean for the 90% of people who read this site who have 100% of their money in dollars? Well, diversification is a [...]
Lending Club Update – 5 Months Later
I started a Lending Club account last year and I’ve been really impressed by the company during my time there. For those new to Lending Club, LC falls under the category of social peer-to-peer lending. It can work one of 2 ways for the average customer. One, a person can apply for personal loans from [...]
Savings? Check. But, Now What?
Today we have a guest post from Evan who blogs about the stock market and personal finance at stockinvesting101.net. Technology has made it fairly easy to save money these days. You can set it up to where you have money taken directly from your paycheck and put into retirement accounts or saving accounts. You should [...]
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Hi, my name's Austin Morgan. I teach English in Japan and write about money for twenty-somethings. Feel free to contact me with any questions and I hope you enjoy the site!
