Wall Street misleading Main Street is nothing new. Stockbrokers are just salesmen. Investments newsletters are even more so. When looking at the returns stated by investment newsletters, many probably assume that they can take...
Read MoreWhat?? No progress? Looking at my balance sheet you will see absolutely ZERO progress from my April balances. Uh oh. So what happened? Well…you remember when banks got in trouble for having their 0ff-balance-sheet debt?...
Read MoreGetting a raise during a recession feels great. If you only listen to the news you’d think everybody is losing their job, getting their pay cut, and being forced to take furlough days. While the economy might be in a...
Read MoreIf you’ve ever purchased an HDTV from an electronics retailer, then you’ve likely been talked to about HDMI cables. See, HDMI cables themselves are pretty amazing technology. It wasn’t that long ago that it...
Read MoreWhen buying a new laptop it’s too easy to be seduced by wanting to upgrade to better parts. Let’s add some more RAM. Or maybe a bigger hard drive. What about a bigger battery? It’s easy to get sucked in and...
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I’m Will, the creator of HackingTheBank. No, this site isn’t about actually hacking banks. This blog is all about maximizing personal finance decisions so that we win instead of the banks.
I started this blog in 2010 when I graduated college with $43k of student loans and a negative net worth. Since then I’ve achieved milestones like getting married, buying a house, and tripling my income. During this time my wife and I managed to earn over 12,000,000 miles and points and used those points to travel to over 50 countries. And all of these points came from banks; neither of us travel for work.