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What Is The 70-20-10 Budget?

Clever Girl Finance

If you don’t feel like you truly have a strong handle on your finances, one possible cause for that is using a budgeting method that doesn’t work. While not everyone needs a to-the-penny balanced budget, some type of budgeting strategy or template is really important if you want to know where your money is going month after month.

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Worried about your future Social Security benefits? Fleshing out current concerns and common myths.

Yardley Wealth Management

I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on Social Security with Tracey Longo at Financial Advisor Magazine for her article Advisors Concerned As Covid Speeds Projected Social Security Shortfall. While there always seems to be a future funding shortfall for Social Security, it’s a political problem, not a math problem.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Top 40 under 40.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, I was sitting there reading Industry Standard, remember that magazine? And I was learning about money, reading all the books, all the magazines, watching the shows, and I was also studying social psychology. You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets. I hate budgets myself.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

One, it doesn’t have a budget allocation from Congress. They’re a budget, they’re a check writing organization. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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The 48 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Find your niche, whether that’s creating illustrations for children’s books, webcomics, magazines, or even greeting cards. Evaluate potential start-up costs and figure out how to budget for them.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

The first big article, I think it was Fortune Magazine, Bethany McLean took a year for the stock to collapse a full year. That’s less than one 100th of 1% of the annual budget. So here’s the math, Barry. . ’cause people just aren’t gonna be believe that a company like Google can be dethroned.

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