Taxes are nerve wracking for most people. With an increasing number of Americans falling into debt each day, tax debt greatly adds to the financial stress. Therefore, it’s very important to find ways to relieve yourself from the burden of tax debt. Read on to know how you can go about doing this successfully. 1) [...]
My mother is not very financially savvy – and when I try to explain anything to her; it can often times take the better part of an hour. It may be her age or the fact she never had any financial education being a stay at home mom, but I like to try to give [...]
Photo by: A Fighting FaithNo, I’m not talking about the ol’ “Bill Gates will send you money if you forward this email” spoof. I am talking about Microsoft’s Usability Research team. Clearly Microsoft has a lot of new products that need testing, and it can’t all be done in house; they need a larger audience [...]
Photo by: herzogbrMy old man used to tell me, “Hank, you want to find yourself a CPA that will walk you RIGHT UP TO the door of jail, but not let you go in.” I think that’s pretty good advice – take what you can, when you can (legally) because the Government is not going [...]
Photo by: takashy How is it that when we can readily see public sector and professional athletes salaries on the web and not bat an eye at it. I’m sure they discuss these things over caviar all the time and it isn’t that big of a deal; but why does middle class America think it [...]
Photo by: emdot Only 0 days 5 hours 2 minutes left until Hanks Holiday Handout drawing! To make my goal of having my net worth be $1,000,000USD by 2020 I need to have a plan laid out. Yes it will change through the years, My wife and I will get raises; we won’t get the [...]
Only 5 days 2 hours 14 minutes left until Hanks Holiday Handout drawing! Good Morning Hank, I was reading this article from Morningstar and they said in it: “Mutual funds are required by law to pass along any income and capital gains they’ve earned throughout the year. These distributions typically take place near year end, [...]
I’ve had 2 posts worth of BAD investing decisions so far (1, 2). I didn’t want people to think I’ve not made any GOOD decisions, because I have, just not as many yet. I’m still young, had no financial education, and had some bad financial advice early in my career. But I’m riding the wave [...]
So I’ve been asked this one a time or 2 before and I honestly hear different things for different people all the time. The general consensus is “it depends on your financial situation” about 99.99% of the time. Isn’t that how it is with ANY financial question? There’s no “silver bullet” or “one size fits [...]
So I just finished up the book 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. It has the standard self-promoting fluff that you have to dig through and weed out, but once you get through that, he’s actually got some pretty ingenious ideas that I think I may find myself implementing in the very near future…
