We're on a roll here at 10KaYear HQ. Or maybe it's that one of our New Year's Resolutions is to write more - well, not just more, but better, stuff you can take action on. So... 2016 might have come in with a bang, or a shudder, or you may have slept through it (a popular choice for us 30-somethings...). But, no matter how you look at it, 2016 offers us all a clean slate. And … [Read more...]
Use Your Tax Refund to Buy Gold
The "Gold Standard" was dropped ages ago. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't consider one of your own. We're about to make a semi-crazy argument - even crazier, it might seem, for people living paycheck-to-paycheck, or working on a side hustle, or struggling to plan for things like college savings for the kids, or retirement planning for Mom and Dad. But we're going there … [Read more...]
One Thing Germans Do More Than Anyone
Time to learn some economics from our friends in Deutschland. It appears that there is one thing Germans do more than anyone (at least in the industrialized world): pay with cash. That's right, bringing the paper money and forgoing credit cards (or heck, even debit cards) appears to be quite the trend - and it has been for a long time - in Germany. An article that recently … [Read more...]
