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You have found the right website and you won’t need a degree in finance to understand and put to use the information presented. This website is written by a couple of average guys who happen to be personal finance geeks in our spare time. We spend hours surfing the net reading the latest articles on topics like budgeting, investing, debt relief, and numerous other financial and economic issues. Then we strip this information down (taking out the unnecessary numbers and jargon) and present the important parts that matter to the every-day, average person.

Personal-Finance-Basics.com makes no promises to make you rich. But hopefully, we can help you get you started on a path to that sense of financial freedom and independence that we all dream of.

In all our cases, this will happen one day at a time. Through small victories. It’s a path that potentially lets you lead your life without the burdens of excessive and unnecessary debt to others. A path that frees you to pursue the passions that you’ve always aspired to but have been limited by. It’s a starting point that teaches each of you, and us for that matter, to make smarter economic and financial decisions in our lives. To think ahead of the curve. We hope to help teach you and maybe even, you can teach us something in return. That way, we all win in the end. We all grow richer together- or simply grow out of debt together. And that, right on cue, leads us to rule number one (and the most important rule) in economics and finance and one we’ll return to often on this website:

Financial success is NOT a zero sum game. Repeat: It is NOT a zero sum game. You can win, and we can win too at the same time if we all agree to help each other succeed. Economies grow in unison and so does everyone’s personal wealth with it if we play our hands smartly. So, whether you are fresh out of school and want to start saving, investing, and being in control of your finances from day one; or you have let your money management get away from you; or you just want to find interesting personal finance articles with commentary – personal-finance-basics.com is the website for you.

Enjoy, comeback often, and may all of you become the master of your finances.