![The businesses of Black Wall Street in its heyday [Image source: America in Color: The 1920s, Smithsonian].](https://www.tictoclife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/black-wall-street-tulsa-1200x675.jpg)
Imagine a thriving community of Black-owned businesses and residences in the era of Jim Crow. It happened in Oklahoma where Black Wall Street was born.
Category: Finance
FIRE often involves mathematical analysis of your personal finances and holistic strategic approaches to your financial goals. Our Finance articles address this.
This category includes content about financial topics. This may relate to personal finance, investing, financial independence, and early retirement.
We review four charities for racial equality for our donation, Chris gives an update on his Yearly Theme, and we review our January 2021 monthly budget!
What does GameStop stock mania mean for the future of individual investors vs Wall Street? And do you own GME via VTSAX, VTI, and Vanguard?
![2020 may not have been the year we expected within our FIRE budget, but that doesn't mean we didn't make the best of it! [Photo: Pacific Park early in 2020 before the world shutdown.]](https://www.tictoclife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pacific-park-2020-1200x675.jpg)
Our FIRE budget reveals how we live a luxurious lifestyle on about $41K/year as two 36-year-olds in an MCOL city on a coast! Steal our tricks to reach FIRE!
We review homelessness prevention programs for our donation, detail record high dividends in our December budget, and award a grant to Direct Relief!
Our 2020 financial mistakes cost us over $40K! Here’s how you can avoid the same failures in 2021 and lead a richer year.
A message from the future warning me of the true cost of college may have changed the course of my financial life.
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The Architect Who Made Nothing
Not every dollar is earned equally. Are you spending your least valuable dollars in such a way as to waste your most valuable resource, your time?
![So confident in my FU money, I spent much of late 2010 traveling the world after I was escorted out of the building when I said "no". [Shot from the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland]](https://www.tictoclife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/what-is-fu-money-1200x675.jpg)
FU money gives you control over your own destiny. It lets you take risks and act with confidence & patience to become even wealthier while protecting yourself.
Investment strategy can make you rich at the risk of losing it all or offer average returns (which might be enough!). What’s better for you? Read ETF vs stock.