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Author: Paula Pant

February 25, 2011Written By Paula Pant

Your Money Should Make Buckets of Excess Money

Want to learn how to double … triple … even 10x your money?

Read on.

If you’re like most people, your only money-making asset is your ability to work. Take that away, and you’re sunk.

But here’s a little-known truth: our ability to work is limited by our time, energy, and desire. Our money’s […]

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February 25, 2011Written By Paula Pant

The Revolution Has Begun …

Let me tell you what this site is NOT about.

It’s not about clipping coupons. It’s not about putting your dreams on hold. It’s not about wasting your life in a cubicle, under a flickering florescent light, battling rush-hour traffic, so that you can barely eek out an existence.

This site is about using money […]

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February 24, 2011Written By Paula Pant

The Surprising Reason I Read AARP Magazine … In My Twenties

Guess what magazine I’m always reading?

If you guessed something targeted at 20-somethings or 30-somethings, you’re wrong. I love AARP magazine — the bimonthly publication of the American Association of Retired Persons.

It shows up in the mailbox at my 70-year-old parents suburban home, but I steal it away to my city apartment and devour […]

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February 24, 2011Written By Paula Pant

Why Retirement is an Old-Fashioned Idea

I was reading through the January/February 2011 edition of AARP Magazine* which featured an interview with George W. Bush. Regardless of how you feel about his Presidency, one comment he made that rang true: retirement is an “old-fashioned” term.

You never retire.

More people are beginning to recognize that retirement – the notion that one […]

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February 24, 2011Written By Paula Pant

Why a Fixed-Rate Mortgage is the Best Choice

When you buy a home, you will learn that there are two kinds of mortgages: fixed-rate and adjustable-rate.

What’s the difference?

A fixed-rate mortgage gives you an interest rate that never changes. An adjustable-rate mortgage gives you a volatile interest rate: in times of slow economic growth and low inflation, the interest rate will be […]

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February 22, 2011Written By Paula Pant

Your House is a Lousy Investment

Here’s the truth about houses: Unless you’re a landlord, your house will probably be the lousiest investment you ever make.

The myth about home ownership is that it’s a great investment — a way to “build equity” rather than “throwing your money away on rent.”

Hogwash.

Here’s the truth: When you rent, you pay […]

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February 22, 2011Written By Paula Pant

The American Dream … or the American Nightmare?

The traditional American Dream is home ownership, but everyone who  lived through 2008 – 2010 knows that home ownership, for many, became the American Nightmare.

What went wrong? (Aside from subprime mortgages and other things outside of our control):

1. Many people bought a home because it’s the “adult” thing to do … […]

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February 22, 2011Written By Paula Pant

You Are Not Entitled to Retirement (and That’s Great News)

Retirement is such a part of our cultural fabric that it’s viewed as a basic human right.

It’s the final chapter in the American Dream: a home, a family, a secure retirement.

But it hasn’t always been this way.

For much of American history, people worked until they were too sick to work anymore. […]

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February 22, 2011Written By Paula Pant

The Crucial Reason Why You Must Think BIG

Money management can get really complicated — if you let it.

People ask me all kinds of nuanced, nitty-gritty questions:

“Should I invest in Company XYZ, given that their price-to-book ratio is not up to recommended standards?” “Which of these five developed-market small-cap value funds do you recommend?” “Should I pay an early-withdrawal penalty […]

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February 22, 2011Written By Paula Pant

The Afford Anything Philosophy …

Welcome to the anti-frugality blog.

You CAN afford anything you want, if you learn to take the right steps.

This is a blog for people who are tired of the extreme-frugality blogs. This is a blog for people who are tired of reading that you should skip that trip to Aruba, enroll at your second-choice […]

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