Interview of Dr. Randall Bell, Author of “Rich Habits, Rich Life”
Dr. Randall Bell develops strategies to overcome problems and maximize peak performance.
Dr. Randall Bell develops strategies to overcome problems and maximize peak performance.
Many feel helpless to direct their own success, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Before the children arrive, squirrel away some money. When the children go out on their own you get one last chance to save for retirement.
The future may be uncertain, but the markets are quite reliable in the long run.
With a little preparation, you can save and invest over your lifetime to meet your financial goals and dreams.
A cash flow analysis establishes your current spending and saving rates.
While your student loans may be a daunting sum, it is still possible to build wealth even while paying off student debt.
If a budget isn’t a team effort, one member of the family will hold the purse strings and everyone else will be resentful.
Too much leverage is risky because it endangers meeting your goals.
As our client, you receive an individually designed asset allocation plan to help you achieve your financial goals.
Recency bias is perhaps the most difficult natural bias to overcome.
1031 exchanges can include “boot,” which is an unofficial term for other property received in the exchange.
Financial Christmas gifts don’t need to be a piggy bank. They can be more serious and more meaningful than that.
There is a complex way, but we don’t recommend the strategy.
Rubio and Lee do make definite improvements but sadly, this good is largely undone by a well-meaning but naive tilt of the playing field towards parents.
We have 1,292 posts on Marotta on Money, but here are the 10 most visited posts on our blog.
For those of us who don’t like playing the lottery, does the lottery have anything to offer us?
You shouldn’t invest in what you don’t understand.
Contrarian indicators have paid off historically.
The average married couple has dreams of multiple children, annual vacations, and homeownership, but planning for these expenses can be challenging.
You might think that you can’t qualify, but many well-paid families are eligible.
For those who do not want to be investors, a fast-track repayment may be best. But for those willing to save and invest, there is a better option.
The process of defining your sectors is an attempt to identify the quintessential features of your strategy and formalize your selection criteria.
It is good to take the two categories which are most similar and use them as underlying sector divisions within the same larger asset class.
This is a complete list of the budgets and purposes of the federal agencies that begin with the letter A.
Each quarter brings a different set of returns for each asset class and subcategory.
We are not normally fans of credit card offerings, but this one might be worth using as your primary card.
You’ve been named the executor of a relative’s will – now what?
Is it fair for the government to confiscate a full quarter of the average person’s earnings every year? Where does it all go?
Who do I choose to be the executor of my estate? What will their basic duties be?
At first glance, AUNZ did not have great returns in 2014. But is that the whole story?
The loudest tend to drown out competitors regardless of whose reasoning is better.
With three young energetic boys, the growing costs of college education weigh heavily on my mind. Here are the age-based benchmarks we use to ensure that our 529 college savings is on track to meet our goals.
Regardless of income level, overspending causes poverty.
Their attorney, New York-based Barry Lax, says the two ballplayers are the latest professional athletes abused by predatory financial advisors.
These noble-sounding goals intuitively appear useful, but the federal government has only two ways to encourage change and neither of them helps in this case.
Stop borrowing from your future self. Each day you fail to save is another day where you tighten the ball and chain around your ankle. You deserve better than that.
Unless McConnell is willing to risk a government shutdown, he will ultimately have to acquiesce to Obama’s wishes.
While I agree with the study, I don’t know that I agree with the prescribed solutions suggested.
The Whiskey Rebellion established the sovereignty of “we the people” to tax and oppress any selected group.
Despite their complexity, these exchanges have the potential to save vast amounts of money.
A typical college degree is worth up to a million bucks over a career, but that’s not true for every degree.
Unlike the markets, members of the Fed are able to make decisions that are in exactly the wrong direction if they don’t limit themselves with a rules-based system.
Because of inflation, today’s 20-year-olds will need over $7 million to have the same lifestyle when they retire.
The U.S. dollar was first regulated by the Coinage Act of 1792 and prescribed as 371.25 grains of pure silver. The eagle, worth $10, was 247.5 grains of gold. One cent, worth a hundredth of a dollar, was 24 grains … Read More
Quantitative easing is a sneaky way to make everyone dealing in U.S. dollars pay off the U.S. debt.
Government officials argue that consistent deficits are good for the economy, if we were only willing to go high enough.
We finally found a great building and decided to purchase it!
Sometimes the best advice is when a competent advisor tells you that you are wrong.
Willful violations of ERISA legislation carry criminal penalties of up to a year in prison for the plan sponsor and a fine of up to $100,000 for the corporation.