Written By Paula Pant
Let’s take a look at some stats from the holiday weekend.
How much are people spending?
What does this tell us about the economy?
How confident do households feel about their income and budgets?
Let’s look at the numbers and see what stories they’re telling us.
U.S. shoppers spent a record $11.8 billion online on […]
Written By Paula Pant
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Which means in 48 hours, your inbox is going to explode with “savings.”
Except here’s the thing: most of those “savings” aren’t savings at all.
Let me break down what’s actually happening to your brain during Black Friday.
Truth #1: You can’t save money by spending it.
That 40 percent off Instant […]
Written By Paula Pant
Remember the last thing you bought ….
…. that’s now collecting dust in your closet?
You thought it was a great deal, but now it’s just making you feel guilty?
Yeah, me too.
Here’s what nobody tells you about the price tag: it’s lying to you.
That $500 treadmill […]
Written By Paula Pant
What did you really buy the last time you made an impulse purchase?
I’m not asking you to name the item itself.
My question goes deeper.
The last time you made an impulse purchase — I guarantee — you wanted to feel a particular feeling.
Maybe […]
Written By Paula Pant
I’m just going to come straight out of the gate with a hot take:
If you need a 50-year mortgage, you can’t afford the property.
Before you grab your pitchforks, let’s explore the new concept of a 50-year mortgage, which just entered the zeitgeist this week.
We’ll run the […]
Written By Paula Pant
Imagine asking ChatGPT to build you a $1.2 million portfolio … and then actually following it.
That’s exactly what one of our listeners considered doing.
She used AI to design her entire allocation, then called into the Afford Anything podcast to ask:
“How’d the robot do? What would you tweak?”
On a recent episode, Joe […]
Written By Paula Pant
Hey everyone. Sooo … the Fed cut interest rates on Sept. 17.
You’re probably thinking:
“Wow, Paula. That news is three weeks old. You’re finally writing about it now?”
Yep. Yep.
“What are you going to tell us next? Hey everyone — We landed on the moon! Pearl Harbor attacked! Dewey defeats Truman!”
Fair point.
[…]
Written By Paula Pant
I paid rent today. I also collected rent today.
Ever since I moved to New York City, I’ve had this uncommon experience on the first of every month. It flies in the face of how society teaches us to adult.
The conventional thinking is that a person graduates from college, gets a […]
Written By Paula Pant
So … this is awkward. Someone is pretending to be me via email.
I’ve dealt with Instagram impersonators for years (until I got that blue checkmark — finally!), but this is my first time being impersonated through email.
Someone created a fake address and somehow scraped email addresses of my Instagram followers to send out […]
Written By Paula Pant
We cover five pillars: Financial psychology, Increasing your income, Investing, Real estate, and Entrepreneurship. It’s double-ii FiiRE.
Today, we’re diving into Pillar Five: Entrepreneurship.
Pillar V | Entrepreneurship
Earlier this month, we covered the first four pillars in this newsletter.
But it wasn’t until Friday that we published our long-awaited interview with Lori Rosenkopf, the Vice Dean of […]
