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Redwood Materials is a sustainable materials company laying the groundwork for electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling in the U.S. As EVs increase in numbers over the next few decades, many electric cars will reach their end-of-life. When they do, the raw materials contained within the batteries will retain much of their value. High-demand metals (e.g.,…
10 Years of RBD — What’s Next?
Yep, I’ve been writing this blog for 10 years. I already wrote about how and why I started blogging at the 5-year mark. Check that if you’re interested. But instead of rewriting what’s already been written, I want to focus on today and the future. Today’s post is a personal update about my current situation…
Hidden Cash Value in Your Stock Portfolio: Shareholder Voting Rights
Today’s article is a guest post from a young entrepreneur named Preston Yadegar. Preston has built an online platform called the Shareholder Vote Exchange (SVE) to empower individual investors to generate additional income from their existing stock holdings by selling their shareholder voting rights. When you own a stock, each share represents a vote during…
Small and Mighty Real Estate Investing — A Book Giveaway
There’s a recurring “success” story in real estate investing. It goes something like this. A young person reads Rich Dad Poor Dad. Inspired, they buy their first rental property with little to no money down and start earning cash flow. They replicate this investment strategy a few more times in the next year, proudly investing with…
Future Value and the Magic of Compound Interest
The future value (FV) formula is a Finance 101 and retirement planning staple that allows us to estimate what current assets will be worth at a future date. It’s one of the baseline formulas that let us build more complex personal financial models using elaborate spreadsheets or more sophisticated tools like NewRetirement and ProjectionLab. Future…
7 Retirement Income Investments for Do-It-Yourselfers
A former coworker once told me how happy he was with his financial advisor. He’s made me A LOT of money! It wasn’t an appropriate time for me to ask the obvious follow-up questions: define a lot? or what are his fees? Financial advisors play a critical role for many, like my former coworker, who…
The 50-Year Home
My parents were born and raised in the south hills of Pittsburgh. They attended the same high school but didn’t start dating until five years after graduation when they were in a wedding party together. Dad was a high school teacher on the other side of town. He wanted a shorter commute, a big yard,…
The Noise We Don’t Ignore
Inflation is destroying wealth and making food so expensive. The Fed keeps raising interest rates — how can the housing market survive it? The 16th largest U.S. bank failed a few months back. Then the 14th largest bank failed! The COVID-19 pandemic happened. That sucked. Now there’s a stupid war in Eastern Europe. The stock…
Arrived Homes Review: Invest in Rental Homes Hassle-Free
This Arrived Homes review was last updated on 04/26/2023. Arrived Homes is a real estate crowdfunding platform allowing non-accredited investors (all U.S.-based investors 18 and up) to own shares of single-family and vacation rentals. Arrived uses real estate crowdfunding laws to simplify the investor experience and broaden access to a Buffett-approved asset class with no…
How to Leave a Career You Don’t Genuinely Love
Common advice from life coaches and career gurus is to build a career you love so much you don’t want to retire. I appreciate this advice and wish I’d followed it more in my 20s and early 30s. But genuinely loving what you do is a rare privilege. Most people don’t love their jobs, let…
