Tag: young adults
Sitting at her computer in the oversized studio apartment she shares with her boyfriend in Portland, Oregon, Melanie Lockert received confirmation on Dec. 10 that her ordeal was over: $81,000 in college and graduate school loans were finally paid off. She had two reactions. The first was an existential panic. “Who am I without debt?”…
The above video qualifies as Personal Finance 101 – one critic dismissed it as nothing more than “common sense.” But that’s appropriate for the audience and worth sharing with teenagers and young adults in your life who are just starting on a financial path. The speaker, Alexa von Tobel (three years before she agreed to sell her online advisory company to…
