I’m going to be taking it a bit easy on the blog this holiday season but I still plan to post most weeks. Today I wanted to do a short post on an interesting graphic I stumbled across. I found...
Last week I did a short post showing the official median household income data for 2021 as a whole and by state. I started doing posts like that in 2017, and since inflation is the topic on everyone’s mind I...
Inflation continues to rage in America and just hit 8.6% for the 12 month period ending in May 2022. Regular Accidental FIRE readers know that I’m a geography geek and whenever possible try to highlight aspects of personal finance from...
Inflation just hit 7.9% recently, life is starting to get expensive. Regular Accidental FIRE readers know I constantly scour the internet for online tools that help show the variance of different elements of personal finance based on geography. It’s a...
Oil prices have soared in recent weeks putting gas prices at near record highs in the U.S. America is a very car-obsessed and car-dependent country so gas prices are what’s in the news. But don’t think that rising oil prices...
The VTSAX Total Stock Market Index Fund went up 20.99% in the crazy year called 2020. So far in 2021 as of this writing it’s up another 18.3%. That makes for a total increase of 39.29% since Jan 2020, two...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has had time to crunch the numbers of the U.S. labor market for calendar year 2020 and the official data are coming out. Prior to March 2020, the U.S. labor market was on fire. From...
When reading financial articles you no doubt come across the term CPI very often. CPI stands for the Consumer Price Index, and it’s calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics under the U.S. Department of Commerce. They define it on...
Tax season is now over and if you get a refund from the government you’ve either already received it or know how much you’re getting. I’ve written before about why getting a tax refund isn’t an optimal financial move. When...
It’s common knowledge that college tuition costs have been escalating rapidly. And nothing reflects this more than the student loan crisis in America. As of November 2018 Americans owe $1.56 trillion in student loan debt. That’s almost 3 times the...
*Note – I wrote this post just before the Census Bureau released the official 2017 Median Household Income Numbers. I may update these numbers in the future to reflect the 2017 data. You can find my post on the new...
How bad is financial illiteracy in the US? How about the world? Bloomberg ran this piece discussing a three question financial literacy test which was given as part of the Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey to 16,000 people in 15 countries. Here...
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