Building Wealth

Some argue that economic “winners” and economic “losers” share the same habits. That claim is false, with two exceptions.

Do men and women in the U.S. become wealthy as a result of good habits or good luck? Here’s my take.

Next year or next month or next week, we could wake up one morning to total financial chaos. Here’s what you can do about it.

The U.S. has accounted for 40% of the increase in global wealth since the financial crisis in 2008 – and 58% of the rise since 2013.

Making “getting rich” financially my supreme and overriding goal was ruthlessly effective, but there are other ways of being rich.

There’s a big difference between making your kids’ lives a little easier and turning them into entitled monsters.

If you develop skills, work hard, persist through tough times, defer gratification and take responsibility, you will accumulate wealth.

Mental calculations leave you no money to save and invest, and no chance to increase your wealth. It doesn’t have to be that way.

It’s your behavior rather than luck, fortune or “the breaks” that ultimately determines your financial well-being.

Americans who don’t own stocks have sat out one of the greatest decades of wealth creation in history.