Tag: financial literacy
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![How Long is this Bear Market Going to Last and Other Valid Reasons Why I Can’t Go for A Run.]()
How Long is this Bear Market Going to Last and Other Valid Reasons Why I Can’t Go for A Run.
In lieu of resolutions and all things ‘bettering yourself’ (bleh), I have seen many go-getters sprinting down the seawall like their life depends on it. Good for them, I guess. My boyfriend tells me that running is a good way to ‘clear your head’ and is ‘easy once you get going’. I’d like to formally…
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![Top 7 Tips for the First Time Investor]()
Top 7 Tips for the First Time Investor
I think academic brain power is wasted on the young. Allow me to explain. Because I have chosen a profession that is essentially just committing to doing homework on a deadline forever, I think back in total awe about how prolifically studious I was as a high-schooler and my ability to read and retain multiple…
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![All Things Emergency Funds]()
All Things Emergency Funds
I’m thinking of re-cutting bangs and no, this doesn’t mean I’m having a crisis. For whatever reason, the act of cutting the front pieces of your hair shorter than the rest of your hair has become inextricably linked to the notion of emotional catastrophe. You got fired from your job? Bangs. You went through a…
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![When Can I Retire?]()
When Can I Retire?
This week, I accidentally found out that Mario is 41 years old. I guess that’s what the decades of the running, the jumping, and the smashing the bricks with the head does to someone – it ages them. This type of behavior naturally takes its toll… Who’s going to tell him it’s spinal-fusion time? Arguably…
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![“How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation”]()
“How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation”
Shalom again! Since we last spoke, there’s only been two substantial updates to my life. One is that I finally watched Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (I know, late to the party) and I can’t stop thinking about how the film described the latter half of his life as being like a bird with no place to…
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![On Starting Over, Again, and Again, Etc., Etc. Until the End of Time]()
On Starting Over, Again, and Again, Etc., Etc. Until the End of Time
Hi. It’s me. You didn’t think I was just going to stop bombarding your inbox with unsolicited financial advice and uninvited political opinion, did you? Here we are again, another January past. In less than 5 years I will be 30. I don’t know what my point is there, but it is something I keep…
