The Investing Starter Kit Blog

A simple way to start gathering information about our spending and income, so that we can be prepared to invest.

Happy Independence Day. Here at MGB, we adhere to the thesis of the 1619 project , that our country was really born when the first...

IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account and the last post about a Traditional IRA is HERE . A Roth IRA has some of the same rules,...

Join on Juneteenth at 8:15pm at the Magic Johnson Cinema in Harlem, to watch this incredible film together.

Summer break is here, and many young people will be working at a summer job or internship. While earning a paycheck is exciting, it can...

The last post on Step 6 is HERE . This is a big step! Calculate your net worth, assets minus liabilities, just once a year, to get a...

Start an 'abundance fund' with $500 in a checking or savings account, for those unexpected costs that pop up. This is an essential step for preparing to invest.

MGB Ice Cream Social on May 19 at Lenox Sugar Hill Creamery

We all need somebody to lean on. With money and investing, I have found that having an 'accountability buddy' can really help people...

Have you been practicing Step 1 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process ? If so, you have seen that the S&P 500 closed at 5,062.25 on...

We have all played the fool with our finances. It's an unfortunate but necessary part of the game. Investing and financial fluency are...

Step 3 is HERE . The previous video for Step 3 is HERE . (sometimes hearing the same thing, said slightly differently, or just totally...

Regularly taking ‘DigitTally,’ keeping track of our numbers, increases our financial fluency.

Kendrick Larmar’s Super Bowl Halftime show was Black Excellence at its finest. Watch it again HERE Beyoncé finally won a well deserved...

This is the first step for financial fluency.

A great man, who held the nation accountable to its ideals. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Justice for all. We need to remember...

Dear Reader, The next MGB Investing Starter Kit Workshop will be on April 22 at 6pm ET. The link to sign up for $98 is HERE . Thank you...

Money is a store of value and an easily transferable means of exchange, created entirely by our collective belief in it.

Calculating our personal net worth is bracing but very useful.

Learning how to use Google sheets/Excel/Numbers or any spreadsheet software is a great step in anyone’s financial fluency journey. It...

Here’s a video about the S&P 500–the first step in our MGB Investing Starter Kit Process. https://vimeo.com/1009328435/fb70336917 Have...