The online bank and financial provider ING is running a campaign right now about hitting ‘your number’ for retirement and how we all have a number we need to reach to be able to retire comfortably. The fascinating thing is that this is coming from a rather progressive company that is a leader in new banking strategies, yet they are promoting a concept (hitting your number) that is ancient in the financial planning world and has been proven to be flawed for a number of years now. Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, gas is pretty out of control at $4+ per gallon, but let’s keep our heads about us and think a few things through before rushing out and joining the Green Revolution.

First off, I have to admit that anytime I hear someone say we need to reduce our ‘carbon footprint’ or conserve our precious natural resources and be friendlier to the environment, I want to go by a Hummer. Not the chinsey Jeep looking kind, but rather the one Arnold made famous in the mid-90’s that is Military grade and can climb the Empire State Building.

Please realize, too, that I live by numbers as they rarely lie and help eliminate the emotion of buying so many of us get caught up in.

With that said, please don’t Read the rest of this entry »

The following ad is being run right now by Chase Credit and is the most despicable, self serving, sabotaging message that I’ve ever seen promoted by a financial institution.

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Creating a foundation to build wealth upon is critical. It’s like any other building project in life, the stronger the foundation, the bigger and more successful you can build.

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We’re finally here at the end of this series. If you haven’t read the other levels of the Wealth Foundation, I highly encourage you to do so by clicking on the ‘Wealth’ category to the right. This 7th and final foundation is Leaving Your Legacy. Most people define this as the impact they want to leave on the world after they die and this is a great perspective to have. Another twist to leaving a legacy comes from Read the rest of this entry »