While the cat’s away the banks will play…that’s how I feel right now. I’m having a great time in Europe getting ready to move to Asia but I keep getting notifications of stuff happening back home with my financial accounts. The latest thing was this gem below that my 5.05% CDs are being called. Oh...| Get Rich Slick!
The BLS reported the consumer price index for inflation today and it’s not looking good. You can read the boring report here or you can see nice graphical charts of the information over at CNBC here. The eye popping numbers in some items: I haven’t yet checked insurance but I’m assuming that’s also up if...| Get Rich Slick!
I wrote a post about having to manage many “money calendars” and that process has now become more intense especially as I travel through Europe, Middle East and Asia this Fall. I have now added a ‘travel’ calendar to my calendar portfolio. One of the things I have been dreading is getting some of my...| Get Rich Slick!
Back in April 2024 I wrote a post entitled, “The Gold Bugs, Like Cicadas, Are Out of Hibernation” and the tone of the article was skepticism of where the price of gold was going. In that post I wrote that I have some physical gold and I also own a few gold mining ETFs. I did sell off some of my gold ETFs after they rallied but I still hold shares and physical gold. | Get Rich Slick!
September and March are my favorite months because those are the months most of my municipal bonds pay me tax free interest. For the month of September, I racked in $623.84 in tax free income. I also have a leveraged municipal bond ETF that paid me $81.56 tax free interest and a non-leveraged one that...| Get Rich Slick!
