Latest Newsletters
The illusion of control bias is the tendency for people to think that they have more control than apparent over events. It’s like wearing a rabbit’s foot to an exam [...]
Financial innovation has opened a new and more efficient avenue to connect investors with borrowers. One of the technologies evolving since the mid 2000's has been the Peer to Peer (P2P) marketplace. Since their inception a decade ago they have grown from $0 to $54 Billion.
When studying finance in preparation for the Series 65 exam there was an emphasis on specific investment objectives. The "safest" investment objective was "Preservation of Capital" and its primary goal [...]
The day after our home flooded, I went back for a few essentials that did not make our initial rescue. The trip began with a friend and I sitting in traffic [...]
This year has been full of firsts. It was the first year we started as a family of 5, first time we moved cross country and into a new home [...]
As Hurricane Harvey began to move East so did the waters gathered in the reservoirs North and West of our home. After 4 days of torrential downpour the hurricane had moved on. The sun was shining. Then we fl......
As the kids go down for a nap and the waters begin to stabilize I gather some of our thoughts over the last couple days, and the days to come. [...]
We all put off unpleasant tasks. In surveys 95% of all people admit to procrastinating, with about a quarter of them saying it is a chronic, defining characteristic. Our innate [...]
1. Happiness The overarching reason why we want to become debt free is that it can lead to increased happiness. Here are 18 reasons for getting out of debt and [...]