Tag: millennials

Millennial: Can Job-Hopping Help Retirement Savings?

Millennials have been coined the “job-hopping generation,” and I’ve contributed to that stereotype. I started my career at 22 and have job-hopped almost every year since. For many of those years, I was young and restless, and there was another part of me looking for more fulfilling work and pay that reflected what I was…


Millennials Set to Overtake Baby Boomers in Australia

Australia’s population is going through a generational shift, with the baby boomers no longer being the largest demographic in Australia as the cohort continues to shrink while the millennials expand through migration. According to the 2021 census, baby boomers and millennials now each has over 5.4 million Australians, or 21.5 percent, tieing first as the…


The Future of Starter Homes and What That Could Mean for First Time Homeowners of the Future

Affordability and manageable maintenance of properties, typically on the smaller side, has attracted first-time home buyers for decades. However, as anyone who has purchased a home in the last few years will tell you, it’s a competitive and pricey market for homes of all varieties, and many wonder if starter homes are still a viable…


Starter Homes for Future First Time Home Buyers

Affordability and manageable maintenance of properties, typically on the smaller side, has attracted first-time home buyers for decades. However, as anyone who has purchased a home in the last few years will tell you, it’s a competitive and pricey market for homes of all varieties, and many wonder if starter homes are still a viable…


Millennial: Take Your Money to the Next Level

Millennials may still feel quite young (despite those pesky gray hairs and less-than-fine lines), but in so many ways, we have adulted. So it’s time for our money management to grow up a bit, too. Your financial to-do list is small but mighty in your 20s. Setting up automatic transfers to a high-yield savings account,…


The Face of Investors Is Changing, More Millennials Participating: CBA Study

New research found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the trend of millennials becoming self-directed investors, with the most favoured investments being property and shares. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conducted a study of 1,000 people during April 2021 and revealed 43 percent of millennials in the group were investing with the intention to create…


EpochTV Review: The Re-education of Today’s Youth

Commentary There is an old saying, courtesy of the French, that for decades held true in American politics. If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 35, you have no head. Distressingly, this phrase has become far less accurate in the last 10 to…


EpochTV Review: Freedom and the Ballot Box

Commentary It’s endlessly irritating that nearly a year past Nov. 3, 2020, you still can’t post on social media any kind of question regarding the “most secure election in history” without at the very least having your post slapped with a fact check. You don’t even have to suggest there was any outright fraud, or…


I Refuse to Work: China’s ‘Lying Flat’ Culture Comes to America

Commentary I speak from experience when I say the following: China is not a fun place to live. Constantly monitored, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, citizens find themselves victims of a perverse social credit system. Like something quite literally out of the British TV series “Black Mirror,” innocent people are punished…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (June 28)

E-cigarette company Juul is set to pay a $40 million settlement in connection with the teen vaping epidemic. The company will also have to limit ads and sales of its products. Most millennials are living paycheck-to-paycheck. But that’s not because they earn less. Experts say it’s because they fall into a trap called “lifestyle creep.”…