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After the stock market, real estate investing is the next most accessible form of putting money to work, in my opinion. I bought my first apartment in 1996, using the proceeds from the life insurance payout that I had received after my father's death. After living in it, I sold it five years later for double what I had paid for it. Very satisfying. That's an example of the market going up, and I got lucky, to be honest. But something I like about real estate is: if the marke

A dollar today is worth more than a dollar next year, and investing can help take advantage of that difference.

Every adult—over 18–should have these three documents.

Paul is an MBA Candidate at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania!

To watch the podcast episode, click HERE . Fun experience recently doing this podcast . My message is always basically the same! But...

Watch the video by clicking HERE What some call a budget or a spending plan, we call a 'money plan' because it's about planning how our funds are used, with our long-term goal of financial freedom, in mind. Here is previous post on Step 9: https://www.theinvestingstarterkit.black/post/step-9-create-a-new-money-plan And here's the link to the post I mention in this week's video, a flow chart on how you might think about deploying your money: https://www.theinvestingstarterkit.

Celebrating the resistance and Black resilience!

A neat way to assess what your options are if you have some extra cash.

If debt is feeling like a burden, there are many pathways out.

A midsummer night's check in.

Our company's whole purpose and mission are to help America achieve racial wealth parity, by making stock market investing more...

A simple way to start gathering information about our spending and income, so that we can be prepared to invest.

Happy Independence Day. Here at MGB, we adhere to the thesis of the 1619 project , that our country was really born when the first...

IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account and the last post about a Traditional IRA is HERE . A Roth IRA has some of the same rules,...

Join on Juneteenth at 8:15pm at the Magic Johnson Cinema in Harlem, to watch this incredible film together.

Summer break is here, and many young people will be working at a summer job or internship. While earning a paycheck is exciting, it can...

The last post on Step 6 is HERE . This is a big step! Calculate your net worth, assets minus liabilities, just once a year, to get a snapshot of your financial picture. Watch the video for more. Have you taken any of these actions? Will you? How is it going for you? Let us know in the comments! And as always, thanks for reading this. All 12 steps of the MGB Investing Starter Kit process are HERE Step 1 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process is HERE Step 2 is HERE --Keep a

Start an 'abundance fund' with $500 in a checking or savings account, for those unexpected costs that pop up. This is an essential step for preparing to invest.

MGB Ice Cream Social on May 19 at Lenox Sugar Hill Creamery

We all need somebody to lean on. With money and investing, I have found that having an 'accountability buddy' can really help people shift their relationship with money and investing. We call it a Check-in Chum, and it's so important that it's both step 4 and tool 4. The last Check in Chum Step 4 video is HERE. The last Check in Chum Tool 4 video is HERE. And the latest video is below: Click the image to go to the Step 4 video on Vimeo How to find a Check in Chum: use your mo

Have you been practicing Step 1 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process ? If so, you have seen that the S&P 500 closed at 5,062.25 on...