30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Fall Below 4% for First Time Since June
The mortgage rate for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on…
The mortgage rate for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on…
Mortgage rates rise back above 7% CNN
“Time is money,” my father used to tell me when I was a boy. He didn’t like how I dawdled with my chores. I didn’t understand what he meant back then. To me, time and money were two very different things. As a kid, I had lots of time but very little money.
Now, as a nearly fifty-year-old man who has written about personal finance for the past twelve years, I get it. Dad was right: Time is money â and money is time.
This notion is the central lesson of Your Money or Your Life, the personal-finance classic by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. “Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for,” they write. “You are the one who determines what money is worth to you. It is your life energy. You ‘pay’ for money with your time. You choose how to spend it.”
The authors say that because you spend time in order to earn money, you’re also spending time whenever you make a purchase. This has some powerful implications.
Because of the time factor, Dominguez and Robin argue that you don’t earn as much as you think you do. You may be paid $33 an hour, but your real hourly wage is less than that. Possibly much less.
72k salary is a good hourly wage when you think about it. When you get a job and you are making about…
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The newly redesigned $100 bill was announced in 2010, but due to production delays it won’t be put into circulation until later this year.
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In case you hadn’t already noticed it in the news, it seems we are hitting a turning point in how the rest of the world perceives this lifestyle that you and I have been enjoying. First, we were ignored. Then, there were a few stories that just focused on the strange lives of Mr. Money […]
Because of the upheaval caused by the current COVID-19 pandemic, now is the ideal time to apply for a Veterans Affairs (VA) refinance on your VA mortgage.
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Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the new and used car market has been tumultuous, with unprecedented price hikes and major supply shortages reaching a crescendo in 2022. With some new car models taking months to order, many drivers have turned to used vehicles â but even those have been hard to come by. At the same […]
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You may want to buy a life insurance policy covering your parents and naming you as a beneficiary if you expect a significant financial impact from their deaths. Insuring a parentâs life can pay for burial expenses, fund an inheritance, ⦠Continue reading â
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