What is an Inflation Hedge? And How Can You Hedge Inflation In Your Portfolio Through the Use of Treasury Bonds What is an inflation hedge you ask? An inflation hedge is typically going to be any security or investment instrument within your portfolio that can be used for hedging against inflation by providing a rate of return to the investor that is equal to or higher than inflation. The best tools that are used for Inflation Hedging include things that are [...]
Call of Duty Zombies Money, The Finances of Zombies In this blog post, we talk about some Call of Duty Zombies money, and give a full on Financial Analysis from a personal finance perspective about some of the harsh realities of money, momentum, and how personal finances work from the perspective of this video game. I've been remote in my job for about the last month or so now, and so I've had a lot of extra time to sit around [...]
What IQ Do You Need for the Series 7? About 115, More or Less In this blog post, we talk about what IQ do you need for the Series 7, as I use things like my CPA exam IQ reference blog post as an example, sources relating to the statistics of one's IQ with a finance degree, and a whole lot of personal experience with this and other related finance exams. My general take on the subject is that in order [...]
How to do an SEO Website Audit, Advice from an Intermediate SEO Guru In terms of SEO knowledge, I would probably consider myself somewhere in between Intermediate and Advanced, and if I'm being quite honest, I am maybe towing the line towards the advanced level of SEO. I am by no means the Matthew Woodward of SEO yet, and while I have built 7 different websites from scratch, one that sold for $25,000, one that hit nearly 2,000 visitors per day, [...]
How Long to Become an Expert in Your Field? How long to become an expert in your field is quite an interesting question, in that it is something that I have become absolutely obsessed with for two very different, although somewhat similar fields, the fields of Finance and SEO. I have heard things like it takes 1,000 hours to become an expert in your field, it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in your field, and other, more generalized answers, [...]
What Are The Basic Principles of Insurance? What I'm Learning Studying for My 2-15 Life, Health and Variable Annuity Insurance License In this blog post, we'll answer the question of what are the basic principles of insurance, which is very much correlated with the financial topics that I have written about in length previously on this blog. Basically, I am currently going for my 2-15 Insurance license, and I have been reading nothing but insurance history and regulations for the last [...]
Is Turbotax Better than Taxslayer, and Is Taxslayer Really a Free Tax Software? Is Turbotax better than taxslayer, is the main focal point of this blog post, and is something that I will keep to a very brief 500 word blog post, for no other reason than the fact that I have written about this already at length in another blog post, click here to read about this more. The reason I decided to make a follow up post on this [...]
The Finances of Apartment Leasing, Why You Should Always Read your Lease Thoroughly! The Finances of apartment leasing are actually something that I find extremely interesting, and that I have only just started to touch on recently in the past few months, due to a friend of mine being in the field and teaching me a lot about the industry. Out of the myriad of things that I've learned about apartment leasing, there are two big takeaways that I found can [...]
Why Your Credit Score Matters, and How to Get a 700 Credit Score In this blog post, we'll answer the question of why your credit score matters, and will walk through how you can noticeably increase your credit score over time, as well as what the benchmark credit score typically is, how you can effectively utilize credit in order to bump up your credit score, and much much more. Having a good credit score is actually something that I had previously [...]
Why do You Need Previous Year AGI When Filing Your Income Taxes? The Truth Lies in Identity Verification In today's blog post, we look at some more tax information, and will answer the question of why do you need previous year AGI in order to properly file your income taxes. For starters, there are some additional deductions that you may be able to get on your tax return if your Adjusted Gross income falls within certain limits, but mainly, it is [...]
