Investing & Taxes

A far more robust version of this blog post lives in Chapter 3 of Rich Girl Nation, “Knowledge is Power.” Grab your copy now! One of the most interesting things about blogging about personal finance (and, by extension, creating an Instagram presence that just screams, “Send me your deepest, darkest fears about investing!”) is that […]

I had an interesting revelation the other day while reflecting on the way I set up my 401(k) at 22. Making $52,000 per year, my taxable income capped out at the 12% bracket ($52,000 minus the standard deduction), so I opted for the Roth 401(k). The “revelation” part came in when I started to flesh […]

I recently came across a personal finance Instagram account that looked different from all the others I follow. There were no motivational Tweets inexplicably shared as Instagram posts. There were no “10% average return” projections. There weren’t even the obligatory, “Stop spending all your money on takeout, you fat cow!” posts. (Can you see why […]

This topic can be provocative. It gets the people going! In the personal finance world, this fact—that you’re likely better off investing on your own rather than paying another human being 1% of your net worth to do it for you—is not really disputed. It’s becoming accepted as the truth. What do I mean by […]