Not personalized financial advice - your money, your choice Ben walking through the Portland Japanese Garden. The average number of cells in a human body can range from 20 to 40 trillion. If you include bacteria in the cell count, that number doubles in many cases (est. 38 trillion bacterial cells). 20 trillion is also the number of dollars estimated as part of Japan's massive foreign asset holdings and government pension fund investments in the Yen carry trade complex. Fun f

Not personalized financial advice - your money, your choice. Save, save, save.  I’ve heard this from many family members and initially interpreted it as ‘Put money into a savings account.’  Basically ‘save’ = ‘savings account’. It wasn’t until I was almost 20 that I understood what they actually meant was, yes, put money into savings accounts, but REALLY what they meant was invest in broad-market index funds for retirement.  This doesn’t mean that a savings account isn’t stil

Not personalized financial advice - your money, your choice Trail running in Colorado. A way that I would spend tax-free retirement funds. 1,974. That is the number of Alex Rodriguez’s career RBIs. It’s also the year President Gerald Ford signed IRAs into law. IRAs solved two critical retirement problems: Accessibility : Workers without pensions finally gained a tax-advantaged way to save independently. Portability : Employees could now roll over savings when changing jobs, k