This is a guest post from Jason Butler. Jason is the owner of My Money Chronicles, a website where he discusses personal finance, side hustles, travel, and more. Jason is from Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Savannah State University with his BA in Marketing. Jason has been featured in Forbes, Discover, and Investopedia. You can find… Read more
5 Things You Need to Know Before Retirement
No matter where you are in your career, the potential of eventually retiring can be a daunting experience to think about. Are you saving enough for the future? If you are, when will you have enough money set aside to be able to retire? The list of questions goes on and on. Even though the… Read more
6 Benefits Of Investing In Gold
As symbols go, there’s nothing more as enduring than gold—it’s been a symbol of wealth and power for thousands and thousands of years. There’s something about this shiny metal that has attracted people from all civilizations across the globe. Gold may very well be the most beautiful of all the metals; in terms of usefulness,… Read more
My Financial Independence Journey: A Unique Perspective
This is a guest post from Joey Cohn, let me know if you would like to guest post on RFI! Joey Cohn is the creator and author of HardlySimple.com. He aims to help people reach and maintain a high quality of life through improving their health and personal finances. You can connect with him on… Read more
Big city life, is it worth it?
I love New York. After Paris, it is probably my favorite city in the whole world. My mum took me there to visit some family when I was 15, and I guess you never forget your first love, well, NY was my first travel crush and has held a special place ever since. An article… Read more
The Ups (and Downs) of High-Tech Finances
2020 was a financially stressful year for many – in fact, at the height of the pandemic, a survey from the National Endowment for Financial Education found that nearly nine in 10 Americans said the COVID-19 crisis was causing stress on their personal finances. As a result of this shift in financial needs and concerns,… Read more
SMBX Review: Invest in small businesses and make up to 9%
This is a review of SMBX, all opinions are my own. With participative economy growing at full speed, and the likes of Uber and Airbnb replacing your traditional taxis and hotels, it was only a matter of time before finance became participative as well. So can you be a bank? Turns out it’s pretty easy…. Read more
Understanding Rates: It’s in Your Interest
From credit cards to home mortgages, interest rates are a common part of life. That’s why it’s critical to know the terms of your debt … and how much it’s going to cost you in the long run. Interest is a fee paid by a borrower to a lender for the privilege of using their… Read more
Where do you keep your wealth?
I first saw this post on Free Money Finance together with an interesting piece of information: the median American net worth is not even $69,000, down for the past few years due to the loss in house equity mainly. Most of this relative wealth is kept in the form of retirement accounts, real estate, and… Read more
Early retirement in the US vs abroad
Every time I go to Antigua Guatemala, a lovely colonial town in the South of the country, I am amazed by the number of retirees who decided to come spend their golden years in Guatemala. I saw a question on Mr Money Mustache about where the best place would be to retire early, so let’s… Read more
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