By Paula Pant
“So to me, this is not a money management question.”
That’s what I told a listener partway into this episode — right after she told me she’s 42, makes $140,000 a year, and has $686,000 saved.
She wasn’t asking if she could afford a family gap year. Her numbers already answered […]
By Paula Pant
Nine days after catastrophic floods, two men trapped 557 feet underground in a hydropower tunnel were found alive — one of the rescuers wasn’t even wearing shoes.
That’s the story we open with today, but it’s not the only headline. The August jobs report tripled expectations, and […]
By Paula Pant
“Joe, I want to first talk about the elephant in the room.”
Before we get into any retirement math today, I need to talk about something personal: the disaster that just hit Nepal, my home country. My family is safe, but I’ve spent the last several days thinking, oddly enough, about why […]
By Paula Pant
Joseph Moore is a crypto billionaire.
That’s technically true, and it means almost nothing. He printed over a billion tokens of his own currency, bought a sliver of the supply for a few hundred dollars, watched the exchange multiply that price by every token in existence, and became a “billionaire” on paper.
He hollered […]
By Paula Pant
“Joe, if you had to choose between retiring as soon as possible or paying off a mortgage, what would you go for?”
I ask Joe that right at the top of this episode, and his answer ends up being more prophetic than either of us realized.
Joe and I help […]
By Paula Pant
Jack Raines liked his boss on Hinge.
It wasn’t reciprocal. A few months later, three beers deep at a bar, he told her he was quitting — then found a $250 plane ticket to Barcelona and left the country […]
By Paula Pant
Why did I just buy my first bond ever, after years of being 100% invested in stocks?
It comes down to a single number: 5.2%. That’s the highest 30-year Treasury yield we’ve seen since 2007, and it’s reshaping the calculus for every other investment out […]
By Paula Pant
The stock market is near record highs. Unemployment is low. So why does it feel like young people have never been more pessimistic about money?
Beth Kobliner has been writing about personal finance for over 30 years, and she says today’s 20- and 30-somethings have […]
By Paula Pant
“Joe, how much did you spend on your wedding?”
That’s how this episode kicks off, and it sets up the theme running through everything else.
Joe and I help a couple figure out if their plan to retire together in […]
By Paula Pant
Is there really a housing shortage — or do we just have a lot of wealthy people buying up all the good stuff?
That’s the question kicking off this episode.
Joe and I also help a woman simplify a $1.5 million portfolio she’s managing on her own for the first time.
And we help a […]
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