5 Financial Planning Moves for Women in Their 20’s

July 16, 2012

Whoever said, “Life is short” did a disservice to thousands of people.  Life is not short.  Life is long.  Research on longevity shows that in married couples that live to age 65, life expectancy for at least one of them is age 94.  When you think about it, 94 years is a very very long time. Someone who is 94 years old this year would have been born in 1918 – does anyone know what was going on in 1918? We were in the middle of World War I, Mississippi was the first state in the Union to ratify prohibition, and Woodrow Wilson was the President of the United States.   In the 1910s, only 14% of homes had a bathtub, only 8% had a telephone and the speed limit in most cities was 10 miles per hour. Continue reading “5 Financial Planning Moves for Women in Their 20’s”