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It was November 2015 at Rutgers, and I was standing in the middle of a Rite Aid at 11 PM crying over a $9 bottle of generic ibuprofen. I had exactly $12.42 in my Wells Fargo account. If I bought the medicine, I couldn’t afford the bus pass to get to my shift at the …
Statistically, you are more likely to get a divorce than change your bank account. That is a genuinely depressing fact I read once, and after spending a decade dealing with the absolute state of UK banking, I can see why. Most people would rather navigate a messy legal separation than sit through another three-hour phone …
Three years ago, I sat at my kitchen table in Chicago and realized I had effectively set $3,400 on fire. It wasn’t a bad investment or a gambling habit. It was just pure, unadulterated tax illiteracy. I had miscalculated my estimated payments for a side gig and completely ignored the way self-employment tax actually scales. …
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