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April 17, 2025Written By Paula Pant

The Millionaire Formula They Don’t Teach in Business School

There are two paths to business ownership.

One path — creating a new company — has a 10 percent success rate.

The other?

When entrepreneurs buy an established, existing business, 75-85 percent succeed.

We don’t hear about this path often.

But maybe we should.

This dramatic difference challenges conventional wisdom. The myth says that buying […]

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March 25, 2025Written By Paula Pant

Why Financial Mistakes Are Unavoidable (And What to Do About It)

In today’s podcast episode, we hear from a listener who wrote in with a problem: 

They contributed to a Roth 401(k) while in a 32 percent tax bracket. Later, they realized they could have waited until their income dropped to a 24 percent tax bracket and done a Roth conversion instead. 

Now they’re stuck wondering: […]

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February 19, 2025Written By Paula Pant

The 60-Year-Old Who Lost Everything | “Trust, But Verify”

Picture this: You’re in your 60s.

You’ve been married for more than 40 years.

You raised six children full-time, while your spouse built their career, earning $200,000 annually.

All those years, you believed you were building a comfortable retirement together.

Then the divorce papers arrive, alongside a devastating revelation — there are no retirement savings.

 […]

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February 12, 2025Written By Paula Pant

The Counterintuitive Truth About Inflation — and the Only Asset Class with QUADRUPLE Protective Power

Well, this morning’s inflation report shocked — *checks notes* — absolutely no one who’s been grocery shopping lately.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest inflation report this morning, and it’s the worst report since August 2023.

The consumer price index rose 0.5 percent last month, and the bulk of the rise — 30 percent — comes from […]

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February 9, 2025Written By Paula Pant

The Real Winners of Today’s Big Game 🏆

Today, millions will watch the Super Bowl.

But while most eyes are on the field, I’m thinking about the many winners who made their move when opportunity knocked:

The local Airbnb hosts who spotted this opportunity when New Orleans was announced in 2020, learned to analyze properties and secure financing, and turned their preparations into peak-season […]

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January 22, 2025Written By Paula Pant

Why Are Smart People Still Stuck on the Real Estate Sidelines?

Over the past decade of teaching real estate investing, I’ve noticed something fascinating:

… almost everyone falls into one of three distinct patterns.

Today, I want to share these patterns with you.

As you read, you’ll likely see yourself in one of them. More importantly, you’ll understand why these patterns exist — and what to do about […]

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January 15, 2025Written By Paula Pant

The Wealth-Building Secret Inspired By a Bicycle Team

For 76 years, the British Cycling team tried – and failed – to win the Tour de France.

The pattern seemed unbreakable.

Until 2012, when everything changed.

That year, a British cyclist won the Tour de France. Another took second place. And for good measure, the team claimed 8 gold medals at the London Olympics.

 […]

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January 6, 2025Written By Paula Pant

The Wealth-Building Shift Nobody Sees Coming — Inside the Edge Economy

Welcome to the world, Generation Beta.

The babies born 2025 through 2039 are the newest generation, coming after Gen Alpha.

They’re the first generation to be born into a world powered with AI, just as Gen Z was the first born into a world with ubiquitous internet.

They’ll soon be rolling their eyes and saying, […]

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November 25, 2024Written By Paula Pant

Bill Bengen Created the 4% Rule. Now He Thinks We Can Withdraw More

Once upon a time, in southern California in 1994, there lived a man named William Bengen.⠀

His friends called him Bill.

Bill was a Brooklyn kid who studied aeronautics at MIT. He wrote a breakthrough paper on advanced model rocketry. He spent 17 years as an executive at a soft drink company. […]

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November 20, 2024Written By Paula Pant

What Happens When Retirement Saving Becomes an Identity?

You’ve spent decades being the responsible one. The disciplined saver. The person who maxes out their 401k, lives below their means, and actually understands what “tax-loss harvesting” means.

Then your financial planner looks you in the eye and says: “You’re not going to be able to spend what I think you can spend […]

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