Why I want to teach about Investing and Wealth Accumulation Note:  The following will read a bit oddly because I removed some personal family data, such as name, etc… Reason 1, What happened in the recent past, a brief family history: The Great Depression and our recent family history Before Great Grandma was born, life […]
The post Growing Money Smart 1 – Why Teach Investing and Wealth Accumulation

I haven’t been on the site much lately, but believe it or not that’s actually a good thing!  Let me explain: These past few months I’ve been really researching the stock market hard.  I’ve been trying a lot of financial experiments with small amounts of cash (around 2k per investment experiment) all while conducting these […]
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I’ve made the sacrifices and invested my money from hard work.  I’m constantly in a state of trying to grow wealthy, but after some hard thinking and talking to some folks that aren’t on my quest to become rich, I have to wonder if I’m making a mistake and even worse, am I a bit […]
The post Am I Foolish For Trying To Become Rich?

I’m going to step outside of what I typical write about and ask “Who will buy the widgets of tomorrow”? What I mean is if the labor force is being replaced by the advance of all types of robots (see my article called Fighting to stay in the middle class for more on this topic) […]
The post Who Will Buy The Widgets?

I’m going to tell you a secret, that you may or may not have realized…  Suddenly the deck is stacked against you in the wealth building process, especially if you are trying to climb up to the higher income and social classes. First I’m going to come out and identify the reasons I believe the […]
The post Fighting To Stay In The Middle Class and Higher Classes

Hi all! Yes it is possible to get rich on a middle class income, but it’s not easy.  I have to admit, even while typing this title, even I started to get dubious about the chances of such an  ambitious goal. So why am I typing  this article if I question it myself?  Because I […]
The post Get Rich On A Middle Class Income

Lately, I see and hear people complaining about not having enough money or even jealous of me because I have more money saved than they do. I have to wonder if they are even playing the wealth accumulation game? Case in point, one such person is my buddy that makes about 20k more than I […]
The post Are You Even Playing The Wealth Accumulation Game?

According to my calculations, I’m a millionaire! Hurray for me, are you excited for me because I’m rich?  Don’t be, because I’m not really rich…  actually far from it still. While I have a paper net worth over 1 million dollars, I’m still just normal middle class guy.  Think I’m nuts, here’s why I’m a [&#8
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Why Invest for Your Child! I recently heard an argument that investing for a young child is a horrible thing to do!  At one time in history, this may have made a lot of sense, but that was before the internet and those are what I consider old thoughts.  Still earning your own way and […]
The post Why You Should Invest for Your Child

Story of the Fourth Financial Little Pig After the failure of raising the first batch of three little pigs, the parents decided to try a different approach for the fourth little pig.  Wait, you didn’t know that the raising and development of the three little pigs was a disaster?  Let me explain: Failure of the […]
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