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You hear a lot about how great a Roth IRA is for saving for your retirement - after all, who wouldn’t want their money to grow tax-free and be able to withdraw it tax-free too - but there are some additional benefits to investing in a Roth IRA that exceeds just saving for retirement...[and this article] highlights 4...

Whatever the end goal of financial freedom looks like for you, there are a 5 simple key first steps that everyone must take to get there. All you need to do is decide that you are ready to transform your life for the better, and you will be well on your way to living the life of your dreams.

To protect one's wealth against risks one must own physical gold. Acquiring gold mining shares...[instead]would be a mistake. This article proves that contention.

We believe what we believe will make us rich, what feeds our euphoric confidence that the bubble-music will never stop and our credulity that bubbles which we know will pop will not pop until we've safely cashed out.

The next time the stock market has a large decline, examine your emotions. Are you exuberant or despondent? The answer will tell you if you are an investor or merely a speculator.

Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all sense something is deeply, systemically wrong with the U.S. economy. These nine structural dynamics generate secondary dynamics, all of which are toxic to social mobility, sustainable prosperity, accountability, and democracy:

During the longest bull market in modern history, the S&P 500 surged a whopping 418% over the 9.5 years between November 1990 and March 2000 but, in mere months, this famed bull market may lose its title as the “longest” in the modern era because, according to data and analysis from LDL Research, the current bull market will take over the claim to fame in late August 2018. In today’s chart, we show every bull market since WWII, including the top six which are covered in more detail.

Albert Einstein once said that compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world yet, sadly, many people do not fully understand the power behind it. If they did, they might make smarter financial choices and see their finances improve almost immediately. In this post, I’ll walk you through the basics of compound interest and show you why you need to start taking advantage of its amazing power.

It seems that in order to live the American dream, you need to be super rich or gave a great credit score. Most people have ups and downs with their finances over their lives, however, and this can lead to a less-than-perfect credit score that can be difficult to fix. Many people speculate, though, that the way our credit is scored might be changing in the future so to be able to stay ahead of the credit game, we need to learn what the changes are going to be and how to keep up. Below are a few of the top predictions that most are making and how they can affect most people’s credit scores in their files.

There are a number of factors that can influence how much your pint of beer will cost. Cost of living is certainly a primary factor, but taxes, availability, type of establishment, type of beer (craft beer vs macro brew), and local tastes are also a factor. Analysts at Deutsche Bank recently gathered critical data on how much a pint of beer costs in various major cities around the world.