Add another Millennial murder to the list. This time, doorbells. According to this Mashable article from last week, we’re out here making doorbells. As ridiculous as it might sound, this one actually makes a lot of sense. Technology has made communication so fluid that both the *ding* and *dong* have been rendered obsolete. There’s absolutely[…]
When it comes to debt repayment, there are two prevailing methods. The first is the avalanche method, which has borrowers pay off the debts with the highest interest rate first. It is the most financially efficient since it results in the least amount of expense. Opposite this approach is the snowball method, which has borrowers[…]
Last December, I wrote “When Coffee is Life” to explain why I am obsessed with my favorite drink. And in 2019, I’ve noticed the caffeine conversation growing on a national scale. Almost everywhere I’d turn, *coffee.* Someone left a Starbucks cup on the set of Game of Thrones? Wild. Luckin, the Starbucks of China, went[…]
When I moved to New York City in October 2008, I was terrified of becoming a kid who boomeranged. For those unfamiliar with the term, a “boomeranger” is used to describe members of Gen X and Gen Y who moved back home with their parents as a response to the Great Recession. It’s a term[…]
Over the weekend my wife shared an article with me from Harper’s BAZAAR titled “Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden” by Melanie Hamlett. It’s a stellar examination of the emotional lives of men if not masculinity itself. It details why so many men are terrible at making friends, expressing themselves to other[…]
In investing, correlation tells us how an asset or portfolio moves in relationship to another asset or portfolio on a scale of +1.0 to -1.0. For example, over the last ten years, investment grade bonds have had a correlation of -0.06 relative to U.S. stocks (S&P 500). Meaning, if U.S. stocks went up by 1.0%,[…]
Investing is now a commodity. If you think differently, you’re in denial. Take a look around, the market is flooded with investment products and platforms capable of getting you properly invested for little to no cost at all. It’s true. You can own a fully diversified portfolio of mutual funds for free. Obviously, not everyone[…]
Investing has never been easier. Today, there are more than 200 robo-advisors in the U.S. From platforms that invest “rounded up” purchase amounts on your behalf to applications that offer unlimited stock trading right from your phone. What was once reserved for only the rich is now accessible to everyone. But as the saying goes,[…]
School is closed this week and the girls are home for *Spring Break*. I’m not positive who’s getting a break here, but okay let’s do it. My post this week is actually a follow-up entry to a post I wrote a few weeks ago called, “Parental Advisory Warning”, which touched on the difficulty of setting[…]
I am considered an Old Millennial, which means that as a current thirty-something, I face a distinct set of issues that weren’t on my radar earlier in life. But there’s one issue facing Old Millennials I can’t relate to: being single. I see an abundance of dating apps and think, “Oh wow, it must be[…]