July 6, 20170Comments

Is Renewal Rip-off (RR) Coming for You?: Some card companies enable vendors to keep reaching into your pockets forever. How to stop the rip-off

Someone offers you a publication or some kind of service at a dirt cheap six months or one year introductory rate. You’ve always wanted the publication so you are delighted

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

April 27, 20170Comments

What to Do with Twenty Five Thousand Dollars: Some commonsense strategies on how to invest a windfall or make it last

Recently a friend asked me what to do with $25,000. He didn’t tell me if he wanted to invest it for growth or make the money last as long as

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

April 6, 20170Comments

Help! I Need Somebody to Explain the ABCs of Personal Finance: Studies find Americans’ financial understanding is poor. Many could be headed for financial disaster.

Financial illiteracy in America is widespread. And it is not just for millennials or baby boomers or the poor or women or men. The problem goes across the board. Millions of Americans

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

March 23, 20170Comments

Why Don’t I Have Any Retirement Assets? Why Must I Keep Working?: Excuses! Excuses! Are you a manana investor? Why not use tax time as the time to take control of your life and start down the road toward financial independence

It’s amazing the number of reasons people give for not starting on a savings and investing plan that will immeasurably improve their lives, as well as those of their loved

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

March 16, 20170Comments

For Some People, Money Will Always Be a Problem: Are you or will you be one of them? How not to be. Are you patient enough to become financially comfortable? Try some lethargy.

I personally know some of these people with money problems. And it is terrible to see their lives of quiet desperation. It is painful because most of their money problems

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

September 7, 20160Comments

Financial Turning Points: How one couple, with a commitment to sensible spending, saving and investing, went from nothing to financial independence

They, let us call this couple Dick and Jane, married relatively late in life---one was in his late 30s while she was in her early 40s. They were united by

by Gregory Bresiger

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