I found a great article on Kiplinger's highlighting the opportunity cost of America's trillion dollar deficit. Some numbers worth mentioning: a trillion dollars could buy 5.6 million homes. Or it could employ all 2.8 million residents of Kansas (including children) full time for the next 23 years. …
Saving Money
Paying Yourself First: How to Make it Work Part 2
In part one of this two part article I talked about the theoretical part of paying yourself first. Planning our the month's income and expenses to spend every dollar on paper before the month begins, making sure you allocate the money first to your number one priority, such as saving, investing, …
Paying Yourself First: How to Make it Work Part 1
There are hundreds, if not thousands of financial gurus out there, all spewing the same advice: live on less than you make, pay down debt, avoid credit, invest early and often, etc. It begins to sound like a broken record with them all saying the same stuff. But what I've begun to see is that many …