Your income probably doesn’t keep up with price increases (inflation). How much more do you pay for houses, cars, meat, sugar, vegetables, and milk than 10 years ago? Did your salary go up by the same percent? Answer: likely not even close. Even if you look at the politically adjusted census bureau data for historical […]
Financial Independence
American Slave: Freedom Killer #1.1 – You, Dude, It’s You
Let’s face it: You are your worst enemy if you allow it, and the child apple tends not to fall far from the parental tree. Ya, ya, you were born poor into a debt slave family, raised as a slave by your parents, taught as a slave via public education, and encouraged to stay a slave by commercialized media. […]
How Much Of My Life’s Time Do I Spend Buying The Rest Of My Lifetime?
In 1999, when I was 27 and the world was about to end due to the Y2K computer bug and another thousand years of decadence, the technology company I’d worked at for one year gave me a choice: Option A – move from the west coast to the east coast with more stock, more pay, […]
Are You An American Slave?
Are you free because you are a citizen of the United States? That’s what we’re taught. We all stand at sporting events to sing that we live in the “land of the free,” or at least most of us still stand. So, here’s a simple question for you: What is freedom? How would you explain it to a […]
American Slave: Freedom Killer #1 – Your Parents
Are your parents rich, and did they teach you how to get rich and stay rich? More than 95% of you will answer “No!” What do you remember from your financial management, investing, and real estate class in high school? Nothing? That’s because the class didn’t exist. If you went to college, you could have studied […]