This is Part II of an interview with Julie, a College Advisor, who talks about whether the old 4-year college model even makes sense. Please also see related posts: Interview Part I – The Rising Cost of College And College Savings and Compound Interest   Michael:    Hi, my name is Mike and I used to [&hellip

In this interview, Julie – a college advisor, offers her perspective on the rising cost of college, which has become financially unfeasible for most middle class families in the last 25 years. Please see related post on Compound Interest and College Savings THE INTERVIEW: Michael:    Hi, my name is Mike and I used to be [&hellip

Editor’s Note: Author and recovering hedge funder Lars Kroijer provided this guest-post, making the case that most of us would be better off acknowledging we do not have an edge over markets.  Most of us can’t consistently “beat the market,” but many of us pay a lot in fees to try. Please also see related [&hellip

An astute reader pointed out some qualifications to my Friday post on 529 college savings accounts – specifically, reasons not to fund them.  The most compelling reason, coincidentally covered in the next day’s New York Times, is that funding your 529 accounts is not as important as funding your 401K retirement account. The New York [&hellip

My littlest one turned four years-old last weekend[1], and my eight year-old is taking a Texas-Public-Schools-3rd-Grade-State-Mandated-Standardized-Test this week[2], so you can probably guess what’s on this ex-banker’s mind: That’s right! Good guessing![3] Time is quickly running out for me to save money for their college tuition.[4] The only thing scarier than those scary scary clown [&hellip