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The 3 Ways Investors Can Manage Their Money
Managing your investments can feel like an overwhelming (or boring) task to many people. There are a lot of important decisions that need...

Ben LeFort
5 min read


5 Money Moves Every New College Graduate Needs to Make
Graduating from college is a pivotal moment in your financial life. Making the right financial decisions can set you up for a successful...

Ben LeFort
8 min read


What Is Lean FIRE? The Frugal Path to Financial Freedom
As the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement continues to grow and attract people from all walks of life, new variations...

Ben LeFort
5 min read


The 4% Rule: How to Easily Live off Your Wealth
Imagine for a moment you have just retired or become financially independent. You have spent your entire adult life saving as much as you...

Ben LeFort
4 min read


Should I Pay down My Mortgage or Invest?
One of the longest-running debates in personal finance is whether it makes more sense to pay down your mortgage early or invest. If your...

Ben LeFort
7 min read


How to Become a Millionaire or Reach Any Savings goal
The name of my company is "Making of a Millionaire" so you would think I would talk all the time about the goal of becoming a...

Ben LeFort
5 min read


How to Drop out of the Rat Race in 2 Simple Steps
The idea behind retirement and the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement is to have enough money saved and invested that...

Ben LeFort
5 min read


Should I Leverage My Home To invest?
Once you have paid off your non-mortgage debt and maxed out your retirement savings accounts, you might start to explore different...

Ben LeFort
5 min read


6 Things You Need to Know About Personal Finance
There are hundreds of millions of blog posts, videos, and podcasts on the internet talking about personal finance. A lot of that...

Ben LeFort
7 min read


3 Questions That Will Reveal How Your Brain Makes Decisions
I recently picked up the brilliant book, “Nudge” by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein and read it cover to cover. This is one of my...

Ben LeFort
4 min read


Has the FIRE Movement Lost Its Way?
The Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement is based on an incredibly simple concept. Once you have generated a certain...

Ben LeFort
4 min read


Should I Use Retirement Savings to Pay down Debt?
Two things are undeniably true when it comes to managing money. Being in debt is bad. Saving for retirement is good. In an ideal world,...

Ben LeFort
4 min read


How does credit mix affect your credit score?
Your credit score reflects your creditworthiness. It indicates whether or not you’re likely to pay back your creditors. Needless to say,...

Ben LeFort
4 min read


Homeowners Are the Big Winners from Inflation
Some assets perform better than others during periods of inflation. The question many homeowners have is how their investment in their...

Ben LeFort
4 min read


Can a $1,000 Wedding Really Make You a Millionaire?
Anyone who has planned a wedding in the past 10 years knows two truths. Weddings are expensive. Weddings are stressful. I have always...

Ben LeFort
4 min read


The Unbelievably Simple Way to Beat the Best on Wall street
The more I write about investing the more I realize just how frustrated, confused and hopeless many people feel about investing. These...

Ben LeFort
5 min read


How to Start Building Wealth with $25 a Month
I often hear people say they don’t want to start investing for their future or their retirement right now because they only have a few...

Ben LeFort
4 min read


Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First: The Case Against Saving for Your Kid's Education
You can't help anyone before you help yourself.

Ben LeFort
3 min read


The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Relationship and for Your Wallet
The right way to talk about money with your significant other.

Ben LeFort
4 min read


Are You as Wealthy as You Should Be?
The wealth equation is a simple way to determine where you are on your financial journey. However, accuracy is the price of simplicity.

Ben LeFort
3 min read
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