Goodbye Intuit Mint: Top Budgeting Apps to Fill the Void
Mint Personal Finance Budgeting app is being retired.
Personal Finance
The Fall of Personal Capital
Personal Capital, a popular wealth management and financial planning platform, recently changed its name to Empower. This rebranding came after the company was acquired by Empower Retirement, one of the largest retirement plan providers in the US. However, the transition to Empower hasn’t been entirely smooth for the company, as it has been facing a … Read more
Are you working for free?
Are you working for free? I hope you value your time enough not to do so. Believe it or not, it’s possible you might be working for free without even realizing it. This is true if you work for a company that has a “use it or lose it” PTO policy and you don’t use … Read more
Investing fees are obsolete
I remember when I started investing around 1996 or so. At the time I believe you could pay around $40 in commissions for a transaction with companies like Fidelity. But online brokers were coming into the game to change things forever. If memory serves me right, my first transactions had transaction fees around $19.95 per … Read more
Healthcare in America is Simply Extortion
Many people know that the number one cause of US-based bankruptcy is medical expenses. But when talk of fixing this arises, debate typically is focused on who should shoulder the cost of insurance. Is it the individual? Is it the government? Should we have universal coverage? Single payer? I think the conversation needs to change. … Read more