Financial Zip

In the times we live in money is tight. Gas prices are really high. If you haven’t noticed the price of groceries has gone way up. I remember just last year eggs were $1.59 and now they are a little over $2.50. The hardest thing you face is keep your spending [...]

You are turning 50 and you realize that everything you have done to save for retirement (or not done) is about to come due. Looking at your banking account it doesn’t look promising. In fact it is down right depressing. Your retirement accounts resembles Al Capone’s secret vault, empty and lots of [...]

So it has been roughly three months since I started this endeavour to create a personal finance website.  I have grown in leaps and bounds and I am very excited aobut the future of financialzip.com.  I started this website with intention of provideing information that can help define what it means to be financially independent [...]

If you are going to achieve financial independence in your lifetime, whether you are starting late or beginning early in life has to do with avoiding or minimizing debt. So today I wanted to go over so simple steps to lower your interest rate.
Understand something here that you are a customer of a corporation [...]

I worked for American Express for 5 Years as a business card consultant. I learned that what the credit card companies do to take your hard earned money is nothing less than stealing or legalized loan sharking. It can be pretty bad as some of you all know. If you think [...]