marriage penalty

Marriage Penalty or Windfall?

I don’t think that getting married should affect your tax situation either way, but our tax code is a monster containing many latent effects from numerous revisions and additions over time. How much of a difference can getting married actually make in your tax return? It depends mostly on how …

Bunch O Balloons: Crowd Funding Done Right

If you haven’t heard about Bunch O Balloons by now, then you must be living under a rock. Bunch O Balloons became a viral sensation hours after a Kickstarter campaign was launched in order to raise $20,000 to bring the product to market.  Bunch O Balloons revolutionizes water fights and …

Roth Vs Traditional

How Millennials Are Facing Up to the Retirement Challenge

This post is written by Michelle  Presently, around half of all the people in the country are worried over their retirement savings. But, what are they doing to resolve that? Millennials vs Baby Boomers The Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies has found from its 15th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey that …

Awesome Articles

July 2014 Awesome Article Roundup

One of the best things about participating in the financial blogosphere is reading and learning about how other people have attacked challenges, built wealth and won.  From time to time this information can be overwhelming. Reading about how someone retired in their mid thirties with over $1 million, or that …