In case your school forgot to include this in a financial education lesson plan, we’ll introduce COLA to you right now. COLA is an acronym that stands for Cost Of Living Adjustment and is an annual figure calculated by the government that measures how much inflation has gone up in the past year. But we [...]
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We’re not going to recommend a single stock, bond, mutual fund, or commodity to you today but this topic still is critical to getting your youth investment off to a rousing start. Beginning investors often get tied up trying to analyze and understand 100 different stocks all at once. Nothing wrong with this if you [...]
Realizing you need better personal money management skills is the first step for most young adults, especially after four college years of nabbing pennies off the sidewalk just to immediately blow the whole wad on beer and fast food tacos. Doesn’t sound right? Our apologies if you were the odd duck who grasped the idea [...]
As a young entrepreneur, it’s likely you’re quite comfortable with the tools of the digital age but you might not realize exactly how much of an information revolution you’re in the midst of. The old way of print is dead. The internet killed it. Magazines, newspapers, and books are in the midst of being changed [...]
Jason Hartman was fortunate in that he was exposed to the teachings of a number of motivational and financial gurus early in life, a lucky happenstance that allowed him to apply his own natural entrepreneurial gifts to achieve success in business quickly. Real estate became his specialty. As stated, he was one of the lucky [...]
Adults love to dispense encouraging words for those with the vision of investing young in their own small business, and the younger the better. How about the seven-year-old girl who, along with her mother, headed out to a fair in Portland, Oregon to set up a lemonade stand to sell refreshing summer drinks for a [...]
How important is it that you make money young? If you claim it’s very important, you’re in luck because if you want to do it, there are predictable ways to make it happen. The trouble we usually run into when teaching the younger generation about building wealth in the early years is a lack of [...]
Ah, to be young and insanely rich. You can do it, you know, no matter how crappy the current economy is. The truth is that young wealth can be built while you’re…uh…still young. This website’s founder and namesake, Jason Hartman, is a perfect example, having become a real estate millionaire several times over while still [...]