The car sharing economy is now everywhere. I originally published this post in 2013 and am now updating it in 2021. It hit me the other day that I’ve been sitting on a goldmine of wealth and knowledge living here in San Francisco, the startup capital of the world. As a 12 year resident of […]
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Why work if we’ve got Obama? I had this rhetorical question asked to me so may times while Obama was President. Recently, I’ve had a couple tennis friends ask me, “Why work when we’ve got Joe Biden?” It’s an interesting attitude I’ve picked up again as I plan to re-retire once there’s herd immunity. Let’s
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Bank fees stink. Let’s find a way to do away with them. First Republic is one of four banks I do business with. They are a boutique bank known for their quality of service. When you go into one of their branches you don’t stand in line and wait for a teller to serve you
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Imagine diligently saving $100,000 over 10 years only to wake up the next day to see $93,250 in your account. Now imagine having to fork over $99,000 of your $1,000,000 nest egg right before you plan to retire. The Cyprus president has basically negotiated a 6.75% tax on all deposits under €100,000 and a 9.9%
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Are you trying to know when to take profits? It’s tough to know for sure since stocks are considered funny money and provide zero utility. If you never take any profits in stocks, then you’ll never utilize your stocks for anything good or useful in your life. The last thing we want to do is
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With stocks at record highs, you may not feel wealthy. Weird huh? It’s a raging bull market with big technology companies and artificial intelligence leading the way. Surely, your stock portfolios are close to record highs. But maybe not. In this post, I want to explore why some of you might not feel wealthy with
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Why do people like to reveal their income? Is it due to arrogance and pride? Or maybe it’s because these people are so insecure with themselves they feel a need to boast. It hit me the other day that none of the people I know in the top 1% have ever revealed their incomes to
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The following is a guest post by insightful reader JayCeezy. He is a veteran investor who shares his perspective on investing, retirement, and risk tolerance. If you want to learn how to lose a million dollars and live to see another day, read on! How To Lose A Million Dollars Kidding. It was a lot
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Making money from home is more important than ever thanks to the pandemic. If you have children to support, then making money from home is what you need to do. Why wife and I have been making money from home technically since 2009. 2009 is when Financial Tips started. Since 2009, Financial Tips has grown
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If you want to have a successful career, you need to understand how employers take advantage of employees to save money. Ever since hobnobbing with Marissa Mayer at her penthouse party, I could tell she was destined to do bigger things than just be an early Google employee. Since taking the reins at Yahoo!, the
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