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Show Me The Statements

Conversations between family members about money are taboo and highly stigmatized, even today. So I always find it fascinating when people plan their financial future around the death of their parents knowing that, in all likelihood, they haven’t had a single discussion with them about their finances. Maybe they helped you with a down payment[…]

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Commit To Something

Last week, it was reported that billionaire investor and Miami Dolphins owner, Stephen Ross, planned to hold a fundraiser for Donald Trump at his Hamptons mansion. For $250,000, donors could attend a luncheon, take a photo and sit down for an intimate roundtable discussion with the president. Despite defending his decision to hold the fundraiser,[…]

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Complete Forgiveness

Back in 2016, when Heather and I wrote The Millennial Money Fix, the student loan crisis was an afterthought to both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. With the exception of Bernie Sanders, the issue failed to make it to the top of the priority list of those running. Instead, other important issues like healthcare, immigration[…]

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Finance Memes

You may think of memes as childish and trivial images found on the Internet, but memes are smarter than you think. The word “meme” was first created by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene”. Dawkin coined meme to explain how our cultural information spreads genetically. However, the concept of the Internet meme[…]