By The Banker | Blog Posts
The air is just different owning business equity rather than earning a fixed income with a salary. Can you smell it? I left Goldman in 2004 and have been downwardly mobile, career-wise, ever since. I’ve also never been happier. I’ve written before that one of the keys to feeling and being wealthy is do something
By The Banker | Blog Posts, Personal Finance, Wall Street
This is a continuation of a theme started earlier, in this post On Entrepreneurship, Part I Founding an investment firm A friend from college once explained to me that, growing up, he didn’t realize his family was wealthy. His dad worked at an investment firm, and they had a comfortable lifestyle, but my friend noted
By The Banker | Blog Posts, Personal Finance
A salary is Fixed Income Earning a salary, working for someone else, is earning ‘fixed income,’ which means you hope it comes close to covering your lifestyle expenses. Like all fixed income, however, it will be limited. In the case of your salary, the limitation of your fixed income comes not from prevailing interest rates,
By The Banker | Blog Posts
Please see my earlier post: Cars I – On Not Getting Fleeced Here’s several ideas that may help you pay the right amount for your car. 1. Cars are not investments. Unlike houses, cars only lose value over time.[1] Cars are big consumer goods that depreciate quickly in value. 2. As a result, all money