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The Internet Invitational Pays Out $4 million. Here’s What a $1 Million Prize is Worth After Taxes

This year’s Internet Invitational, Barstool’s YouTube golf tournament, carries a $4 million purse, up from $1 million last season. The finale airs Thursday, November 12, per the episode schedule, and somebody is about to receive a very large check. You’re probably not winning a golf purse. But the trap that…

Thousandaire · Nov 10

Old 401(k): Leave it, Roll it to an IRA, or Move it to your New Plan?

You changed jobs, and a balance is sitting in the old employer’s plan. Nothing forces a decision, so most people make none. That is a decision too: it quietly picks the fees you pay, the rules you live under, and the paperwork you will face in ten years.

Thousandaire · Nov 6

Florida’s Amendment 3 Passed: What the Bigger Homestead Exemption Is Worth

Most of the election-night coverage was about who will run Congress. For Florida homeowners, the result that changes next year’s tax bill was further down the ballot. Amendment 3, which raises the homestead exemption, needed 60% of the vote to pass, and unofficial returns on Wednesday morning put it above…

Thousandaire · Nov 4

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What the Fed’s Median Income 2025 Survey Shows, and What To Do with Your Own Number

Every three years the Federal Reserve publishes the most detailed public picture of American household balance sheets. The 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances results, released October 9, 2026, put the median family’s net worth at $215,900. The mean is $1.24 million.

Thousandaire · Nov 4

Beneficiary form or Will: Which One Controls Your 401(k), IRA and Life Insurance

If you hold a 401(k), an IRA, a brokerage account or a life insurance policy, a form you filled out years ago probably decides who gets that money, and your will probably does not. That is why the end of the year is a good moment to check them. The…

Thousandaire · Nov 2

How To Vet a Financial Advisor in 15 minutes, Using Three Public Records

You can check a financial advisor’s license, disciplinary history, fees, and conflicts of interest before you ever sit down with them. It takes about 15 minutes and three records, and all three are public: a registration lookup, a short relationship summary called Form CRS, and, for investment advisers, a longer…

Thousandaire · Oct 30

Long-term disability insurance at open enrollment: pre-tax or after-tax premiums?

Your open enrollment form has a line for long-term disability, and next to it a choice most people skip: pay the premium before tax or after. That one checkbox decides whether the benefit you collect on your worst financial day gets taxed. The rule takes a minute to learn, and…

Thousandaire · Oct 29

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How To Use Medical Receipts as an HSA Cashcow

You can pay this year’s medical bills out of your checking account, leave the HSA money invested, and pay yourself back tax-free in 2046. Or sooner. Just spitballing. The IRS doesn’t set a deadline on the reimbursement. Whether that’s worth doing depends on your cash flow, your HSA’s investment menu,…

Thousandaire · Oct 28

Anthropic IPO and your index fund: you already own the “winners”

Anthropic has filed to go public, and the “how to play it” lists are coming: the chipmakers, the cloud providers, the backers. If you own an S&P 500 or total-market index fund, you already hold most of those names, in size. The real question is whether to double a bet…

Thousandaire · Oct 27

How Capital Gains Tax Works, and the Legal Ways to Owe Less (or Nothing)

Your portfolio crushed this year. Noice.

Thousandaire · Oct 26

Pay off your mortgage early only if your rate clears this break-even

Every extra dollar you send to mortgage principal earns exactly your mortgage rate. Guaranteed, no market risk, no statement to check. So the question isn’t “pay it off or invest?” in the abstract. It’s whether your rate beats what a safe investment pays after tax, and right now the answer…

Thousandaire · Oct 23

What a $100,000 salary is really worth in every state

A $100,000 salary buys about $115,000 worth of life in Arkansas and about $90,000 in California. Same paycheck, a $25,000 gap. We ranked all 50 states and D.C. by what six figures actually buys, then went one step further: how fast that salary gets you to your first $100,000 invested.

Thousandaire · Oct 22

Asset location at $85K: Which fund goes in the 401(k), the Roth, and the Brokerage Account?

You’ve got three accounts now: a 401(k), a Roth IRA, and a fresh taxable brokerage account. Somebody told you to put the bonds in one and the stocks in another, to “locate your assets” and save thousands in tax.

Thousandaire · Oct 21

Tax-gain Harvesting: How Much 0% Gain Room You Have Before December 31

For 2026, a married couple can realize long-term capital gains at a 0% federal rate until taxable income reaches $98,900. A household earning around $85,000 sits well below that line. The room expires on December 31 and does not carry into 2027.

Thousandaire · Oct 20

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Thousandaire · Oct 20

How Much To Contribute To Your 401(k) in 2026, As a Percentage of Your Paycheck

The IRS lets you defer $24,500 into a 401(k) in 2026, and another $7,500 into an IRA. On an $85,000 salary, the 401(k) cap alone is 28.8% of gross pay. Almost nobody hits it, and you don’t have to. You need a percentage you can defend, and the limits tell…

Thousandaire · Oct 19

Should You Change Your Investments Before the Midterms? Here’s the Math on Sitting Out

The midterms are on November 3, and for the next few weeks your feeds will be full of charts, predictions and confident people telling you what the results will do to your portfolio. Some of that will make you want to do something.

Thousandaire · Oct 12

Do Electric Cars Save Money? We Ran the Numbers for All 50 States

Gas just had its most expensive September on record, averaging $4.33 a gallon according to AAA, and the national average is still around $4.35 this week. That makes the case for an electric car sound obvious. It isn’t. The federal clean vehicle credits ended for EVs acquired after September 30,…

Thousandaire · Oct 8

HDHP vs. PPO: Which Health Plan Actually Costs You Less in 2027?

Open enrollment packets are built to be skimmed. Four plan names, a grid of deductibles, a premium per paycheck, and a deadline. Most people pick whatever they had last year, or whichever premium looks smallest. No judgement.

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Thousandaire · Oct 8

Is House Hacking Worth It at 7% Mortgage Rates? Run This Test Instead

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 7.28% last week, up from 6.34% a year earlier [1]. If you’ve been eyeing a duplex, you’ve probably already heard the verdict: house hacking is dead, the numbers don’t cash flow anymore.

Thousandaire · Oct 6

Should I Still Own Bonds? The Math After Their Worst Quarter Since 1994

If you opened your 401(k) this week, the bond slice is the part that looks, well, pretty crappy. The 10-year Treasury yield just posted its biggest quarterly jump in three decades, and a broad total bond market index fund lost around 3.5% for the quarter.

Thousandaire · Oct 1

High-Yield Savings vs. CDs vs. T-bills: What You Actually Keep After Tax

The best savings rate on the comparison table is not the rate you earn. It’s the rate before the IRS and your state take their cut, and those cuts differ by account. Run the after-tax numbers and the winner changes for a lot of readers, especially anyone in a state…

Thousandaire · Oct 1

Index fund concentration risk: how big an AI bet you’re actually making

About 38 cents of every dollar in an S&P 500 index fund now sits in just ten companies, and most of them are riding the same AI spending wave. That alone isn’t a reason to sell anything. The real concentration risk usually isn’t the index fund. It’s everything you stacked…

Thousandaire · Sep 29

Your Coast FIRE number, with a Kid on the Way

You’re 34, with about $45,000 invested and a baby due. At some balance ahead of you, you could stop saving for retirement completely and still retire comfortably at 67. That balance is your Coast FIRE number, and for a lot of people at your stage it’s around $140,000 in today’s…

Thousandaire · Sep 23

Should You Contribute to a Trump Account? Take the Free $1,000, Then Do the Math

Your kid can get $1,000 from the Treasury for filling out one form. Take it. The harder question is what to do with your own money after that. The account lets families add up to $5,000 a year, and for a household at your stage, that $5,000 has better places…

Thousandaire · Jun 11

Some Americans Are Turning to Plasma Donation to Cover Rising Expenses

Across the country, a quiet financial workaround is moving from the margins into the mainstream. Faced with rents that keep climbing and grocery bills that refuse to settle, a growing number of Americans are rolling up their sleeves at plasma centers to bring in extra cash. What was once associated…

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