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The Ant and the Grasshopper – Personal Finance version
January 22, 2024
If you need a refresh on the parable of “The Ants and the Grasshopper”, here it is: The ants spent all summer working and storing
If you need a refresh on the parable of “The Ants and the Grasshopper”, here it is: The ants spent all summer working and storing
“Investing” can be so abstract and intimidating. Like how do you DO it. Well this is how! Optimal investing takes a few minutes per year
The S&P 500 just hit a record high for the first time since January 2022! It’s been almost two years! (2023 was the first year
Forgetting to invest in our example, resulted in an almost $2 MILLION dollar mistake. Don’t let this be you. Stop what you’re doing and make
Investing in anything on this chart is WAY better than leaving your money sitting in cash. But stocks are the obvious winner. Which stocks do
I just can’t get hype about a high-yield savings account. It has such a great name. HIGH-YIELD! Just what we love, right?! Yields that are
This is good news if you’re in your 50s. Every dollar you save and invest this decade will DOUBLE by the next. Plus, in your
We posted about the updated 2024 contribution limits a couple months ago, but since then we have been getting a lot of questions about the
Going back every decade all the way to 1900, only two decades have been negative. And both were just barely negative (1930s and the 2000s
This is a screenshot from my actual Fidelity account showing the performance of my investments in 2023. I made zero trades last year (other than
If you need a refresh on the parable of “The Ants and the Grasshopper”, here it is: The ants spent all summer working and storing
“Investing” can be so abstract and intimidating. Like how do you DO it. Well this is how! Optimal investing takes a few minutes per year
The S&P 500 just hit a record high for the first time since January 2022! It’s been almost two years! (2023 was the first year
Forgetting to invest in our example, resulted in an almost $2 MILLION dollar mistake. Don’t let this be you. Stop what you’re doing and make
Investing in anything on this chart is WAY better than leaving your money sitting in cash. But stocks are the obvious winner. Which stocks do
I just can’t get hype about a high-yield savings account. It has such a great name. HIGH-YIELD! Just what we love, right?! Yields that are
This is good news if you’re in your 50s. Every dollar you save and invest this decade will DOUBLE by the next. Plus, in your
We posted about the updated 2024 contribution limits a couple months ago, but since then we have been getting a lot of questions about the
Going back every decade all the way to 1900, only two decades have been negative. And both were just barely negative (1930s and the 2000s
This is a screenshot from my actual Fidelity account showing the performance of my investments in 2023. I made zero trades last year (other than
