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  • More than you ever wanted to know about IPOs

    This company had an IPO! They’re Going Public! If you’ve ever heard that statement and wondered what it means, you’re not alone.  IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, which is when a company goes public. Oh, you don’t know what that means either? This article is long and has a lot of background around initial Read more

  • Save Me From Retirement

    In an earlier post, WTF is a 401(k) I spent a lot of time … ranting about pensions, and explaining why a 401(k) system is better. I didn’t, however, spend a lot of time explaining what a 401(k) actually is. So today I’d like to explain a bit about the different options for retirement accounts Read more

  • Special Edition: How the Coronavirus is affecting the Stock Market

    How the Coronavirus is affecting the Stock Market (and what to do about it). Read more

  • What is the stock market?

    For most people, I’m guessing that only time they interact with the stock market is when they’re at the airport or some other public place, and see the tickers go by. You hear the phrases, things like “Markets are down today”, or “Stocks really took a hit”, or maybe even “Dow’s up 200 points”. But Read more

  • What is a Stock?

    In Episode 9 of the first season of the Bad With Money podcast, Gaby Dunn asked financial expert Sallie Krawcheck “What is a stock?”, and I began to realize how large the knowledge gap is in financial literacy. That episode was the initial inspiration I had for starting this blog, because I knew I could Read more

  • WTF is a 401(k)?

    In the realm of personal finance, one of the first pieces of advice you’ll hear is to take advantage of your company’s’ 401(k) match. This assumes two things. First, that you work in a traditional corporate environment that offers a 401(k) with a match. Second, it assumes you know what that what a 401(k) is. Read more