3 Things 4-13-26
Thing One Don’t Pay That Bill Dealing with the torrent of emotions triggered by the death of a loved one can be difficult. Add to that the settling of a decedent’s financial matters, and the situation can become a stressful and confusing mess. Believe it or not, there are companies hoping to find you in just that state of mind. These businesses buy up the debt of people who’ve passed away for pennies on the dollar and then start calling surviving family members almost immedia
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Thing One All Debt Must Be Repaid Ten years ago, a good friend wrote about an article he'd read about debt. Below is a rewrite with updated stats. It's defintiely worth a read... The article "Managing Debt in an Overleveraged World" by Michael Spence warned that global debt had surged by roughly $60 trillion since the financial crisis — a 75% jump relative to global GDP. At the time, that number felt staggering. The world had failed to deleverage after 2008 and instea
3 Things 12-16-24
Thing One Making A Case For Bitcoin? While doing an interview about the virtues of bitcoin with Jim Cramer, Saifedean Ammous, the author...
3 Things 9-23-24
Thing One Three Charts As we alluded to last week, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee did cut its federal funds rate by a half...
3 Things 6-17-24
Thing One The Rule of 72 (The Simplified View of Compound Interest) If you divide any expected rate of return (or interest rate) into...
3 Things 5-27-24
Thing One Some Gave All, All Gave Some (The following is a repost of some excerpts from an article on study.com that we're sharing...
3 Things 4-22-24
Thing One Yes, The Rich Tend To Get Richer, But So Can The Average Joe Here’s a quote from an August 2020 Wall Street Journal article: ...
3 Things 2-7
02/07/2022 Although MAS is a financial services company, not everything published herein will be about numbers or investing. But no...
3 Things 8-2
08/02/2021 Although MAS is a financial services company, not everything published herein will be about numbers or investing. But no...
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11/27/2020 THING ONE THINGS I WISH SOMEBODY HAD TOLD ME IN MY TWENTIES A recent article with that title had a long list of items on it....