In a piece I wrote last week, I mentioned that lots of people have at best only a vague idea about what the numbers in their lives look like. I also added that this I-see-nothing approach to one’s financial life is, to say the least, not optimal, and then I […]
This is a long’ish piece — about 2,400 words. It might take you twenty minutes or more to read it. It might’ve taken me twenty years or more to think it. And it for-sure took me many, many hours to do my best to make it entertaining as well as […]
Quick! Which would you rather have: a 30-year mortgage at 4% or a 15-year mortgage at 3.25%? I thought I knew the answer — the 15, right? — until I recently spent a good deal of time what-if’ing the numbers. And what I found surprised me.
Looking at a couple of statements from your day-to-day checking account, I tell new clients in our first working meeting, is like looking at the lab results your doctor orders when you have a physical. Staring out from those pieces of paper [pdf files] are a bunch of numbers that […]
We start with this: <> Do you know what that means? If not, then please allow me to take you back to yesteryear, and to little-you sitting in your little chair in arithmetic class, so that I can re-introduce you to your dear old friends, […]