If you just got a new job that pays more than your current job. Tips on what you should do with the income boost?

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by reddituser0071 Most definitely don’t increase your lifestyle. Then start the following steps. Use this raise as an opportunity to accelerate your financial goals. Get on a budget and give every dollar a name before the month begins. Don’t add any debt. Step 1 Save 1000$ as a starter emergency fund. This is only a small cushion … Read more

If you are in SF, NYC, or another HCOL area. Your biggest expenses are going to be taxes and housing, with transportation likely a distant third. If you can get the big expenses down, you can eat all the avocado toast you want.

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Guest post by csp256 There is only so much you can do to minimize taxes, but here are the two biggest ways: Contribute the maximum to your 401k (there are several ways of accessing it early; don’t worry) Get a high deductible health care plan and contribute the maximum to your HSA. Leave the money … Read more

Please Do Not Panic – The Last Time Stagflation Keyword Tagged This High Interest It Was 2008…. We’re in the Midst of a Global Synchronous Downturn!

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Please Do Not Panic-> The Last Time Stagflation Keyword Tagged This High Interest It Was 2008. WTF pic.twitter.com/CzjOBx6V6t — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 10, 2018 Data Doesn’t Lie: We’re in the Midst of a Global Synchronous Downturn “Global synchronous recovery.” It’s such a pretty phrase. It sounds great and the mainstream media loves to talk about … Read more

Consumer Price Index Rises 2.5%, fastest since February 2017

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Been reading misleading headlines about low inflation again? That is was “softer than expected” or whatever? So here are the numbers: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics released this morning, was 2.5% higher than a year ago. That increase may have been “lower than expected” … Read more

When The “Hot Money” Gets Antsy, A Currency Crisis Morphs Into A Debt Crisis.

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter You just don’t lend Argentina’s government money. Not in its own currency, because it relentlessly destroys that currency, and not in a foreign currency, because it will default on it. Lending money to Argentina is like trying to run across a 16-lane freeway with traffic zooming by at 70 mph. You … Read more

THEY WERE BRIEFED! Dishonest attacks on Trump CIA nominee Haspel over enhanced interrogation techniques. Congress, including Pelosi, knew and was on board.

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by TFittonJW Advocates for terrorists control the debate on detainee and enhance interrogation techniques. Judicial Watch stands strong for rule of law and facts on how to protect our nation from the terrorist threat. In doing so, we exposed the dishonesty in Congress about EITs! Dishonest attacks on @RealDonaldTrump CIA nominee Haspel over enhanced interrogation … Read more

Back In The Old Days, This Was Called Stagflation

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via Great Speculations This time, indeed, could be different. It certainly is in the realm of possibility, but, the odds are against it. One doesn’t get up on a particular morning and find an entry in the calendar on our smartphone, like “Cinco de Mayo” or “Mother’s Day,” that says “Start Day: National Recession.” In fact, … Read more

UK Police State: man arrested for carrying potato peeler; another gets 8 months for giving middle finger to traffic camera

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by Dr. Eowyn While we were sleeping, the United Kingdom had morphed into a tyrannical police state. Here are four recent cases of police tyranny: (1) Breitbart reports that on April 28, 2018, Scott Walker, 39, was arrested in Dunfermline, Scotland, for carrying a potato peeler in a public place “without reasonable excuse” and faces up to four years … Read more

The Pre-Retirement Preparation Checklist

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by Richard Rosso  Are you prepared? Most important: Are you aware? Aware of the common mishaps and misperceptions that may curtail a happy & healthy retirement? The Real Investment Advice and Clarity Financial pre-retirement preparation checklist can help identify potential mistakes and navigate a smooth transition to a revitalized and fulfilling retirement. Body: Do you … Read more

BREAKING….Trumps hijack 90% empty aeroplane as world looks on in awe

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by John Ward In not very important news, Canadian nutjob pc liberal Kathleen Wynne has the support of just one in five Ontarians, proof positive that her delusionally Groupthink fascist policies have really resonated with the electorate; equally Canadian person Mark Carney has kept UK rates on hold because his earlier feeling that rates should now … Read more

FITTON: BIG–Another miracle — FBI found more tarmac meeting docs. Will give them to us end of the month. Exposed in new cover-up–ponies up two hidden Page-Stzok texts.

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by TFittonJW Caught FBI in another cover-up after we noticed the two texts that mention tarmac meeting — docs FBI gave to Congress. And then the FBI fought giving us those two public docs! Now they admit there are even more docs and will turn them over to us by end of month (or releasable … Read more