hey what's up guys welcome back to money live TV Mike the CPA here I have a very
special video for you guys so I really encourage you to watch this from start
to finish as we talk about why I think having a job is no longer enough to get
ahead financially have you ever felt like what you're doing is not you're not
really getting ahead have you feel like things are do you feel stuck do you feel
like you're trapped in debt do you feel like things are so expensive well I have
a couple of things I want to share with you as to why that is and and which will
explain why I think having the job just will not get most people ahead to where
they want to be financially anymore and the current economy we live in in fact I
think it's nearly impossible to get ahead anymore with just a with even just
a good job. I found for myself the harsh truth was that
when I looked up my numbers of how much I needed to retire and based on how much
things cost nowadays in 2018 I realized that it was gonna be a very slow going
process and that I needed to change in order to prepare myself financially in
the future for what's ahead so let's go ahead and dive right into the
information all the links all the websites you're gonna see today guys and
the articles are is going to be linked up in the description section down below
so make sure if you want to read more about them make sure to check it out so
I think it really starts back in 1970 around 1971 when Richard and Nixon took
us off the gold standard it says why did the u.s. abandon the gold standard and
if you read these articles and there's several of them online I look at the
cute kitty cat but if you read the articles it basically indicates that one
of the primary reasons there's two primary reasons that the government took
us our currency the dollar bill off the gold standard one it was mainly for the
purpose of economic growth by the dollar bill no longer being linked to an assets
the government then could print money whenever it needed whenever it felt the
economy was in trouble and it's stimulate the economy its stimulate
economic growth by just printing money the other thing it could do by the
dollar bill no longer being tied to gold was it could then manipulate the
interest rates it could move the interest rates up or down and so it
since then 1870's if you look at interest rates the
interest rates have fallen from about a high I think of around fifteen percent
down to two to three percent of where they are today so very very low interest
rates over the past you know 30 40 50 years that's the direction interest
rates have gone now of course and then the last part with coming off the gold
standard the the US are the foreign foreign countries could no longer buy up
the u.s. gold supply and the u.s. gold reserve so that was another reason the
US came off the gold standard for the dollar bill now we're on my budget 360
of course when you take off the US dollar bill off the gold standard and
you create more money into the economy you can you can adjust the supply of
money what happens well inflation happens starts to happen
over time so says the cost living shuffle we continually hear about the
middle class shrinking but where are they shrinking too much of the
disappearing act has come at the hands of inflation that is their income is no
longer sufficient to support the items that we once categorized as part of the
middle class a car a home a college education for the kids and basic health
care for many Americans these items are all getting out of reach and for those
that purchase them they are required to go into massive amounts of debt with
banks so this is kind of a cool graph I found a cool chart that basically
compares the cost of goods from 1975 to what they cost in 2015
obviously these have gone up since 2015 because we're in 2018 so back in the
1970s believe it or not homes only cost around $50,000 they're very expensive
whereas today you guys probably noticed that homes cost two hundred and seventy
thousand three hundred thousand even four hundred thousand or more depending
on where people live so what I found is that homes are five to eight times more
expensive than what they used to be when our parents purchased them in 1975 a new
car would only cost you around four thousand dollars fast forward to 2015 a
new car is now costing people around thirty thousand dollars an average and I
think that's still around the average of what it is today in 2018 in nineteen
seventy five public college with only here around $2,000 but now public
colleges around $19,000 in 2015 and that number continues to go higher every year
what about private college private college would run you around $4,000 in
1975 jump fast-forward to 2015 $42,000 gasoline only 59 cents a gallon
in 2015 gasoline is between two to three dollars a gallon so as you guys can see
this is a common trend prices just keep going up mainly due to inflationary
concerns and this is what happens when more money can be printed and the supply
of money increases things go up the cost of living increases but unfortunately
wages do not keep pace with the inflation according to the street US
standard of living has fallen more than 50 percent using the using the year 2000
as a numerical base from which to zero all of the numbers real wages peaked in
1970 at around $20 an hour today the average worker makes $8.50 an hour more
than 57 percent less than in 1970 and since the average wage directly
determines the standard of living of our society we can see that the average
standard of living in the US has plummeted over 50% 7% over the span of
40 years so basically in a nutshell everything costs more so compared to
when our parents were around their dollar actually purchased them more
goods and services back then then our dollar does today therefore every dollar
we work for we actually work harder and harder for less and less money because
the purchasing power of our dollar has declined
I graduated from school that was a lot of high paying jobs stock markets going
up real estate markets real estate prices were really cheap you can buy a
condo for $18,000 on the beach in Maui you know today you don't do that because
the government has mismanaged our economy and so and so you guys younger
guys you have you have to be 10 times smarter than me so if you're not even if
you go to college it doesn't doesn't guarantee you you'll do well I thought
this was the interesting articles many Millennials actually wish they had grown
up in baby boomers times if you read the article it basically talks about many of
the Millennials would actually give up their cell phones believe it or not in
order to have the quality of life their parents once had of having pensions of
having retirement of having having a steady income a steady job and having a
place to live a house that they could actually afford now as prices go up so
does the likelihood that people will go into debt and if you look at student
loan debt today in 2018 the numbers are shocking
it's article was published in May of 2018 the total u.s. student loan debt is
about one and a half trillion dollars in 2018 over forty four millions of
Americans are indebted with student loan debt and the average monthly student
loan payment for a borrower between the ages of 20 to 30 is 351 dollars per
month if you read these different statistics you'll easily discover that
the average student loan payment for fourth an average person is between two
to four hundred dollars a month depending on how indebted they are and
their interest rates and things like that
we often hear in the news and the media that the average whatever inflation is
anywhere from two to three percent annually on average but there are many
things out there that rise so much faster than inflation things such as
homes cars health care costs and you know it
tuition tuition rises much faster than inflation according to this article
published by us today today the nation's top 50 private universities as ranked by
the US News and World Report are upping their tuition by an average of three
point six percent annually a handful are even raising their tuition rates by more
than four percent according to their websites and some are even doing it five
percent or more and I'll be honest with you guys over
the years I've looked at articles that relate to the actual inflationary
increase in tuition and now it definitely it certainly depends on what
school you're looking at but for many schools the rate of inflation annually
is anywhere from four to seven percent here is leis University for example so
back in 2016 to 2017 their price was around forty-seven thousand dollars or
forty eight thousand dollars to attend that university four-year school but now
they've increased their price have around fifty thousand dollars which is a
their tuition is rising by about five percent annually and like I said many
schools are are increasing their tuition at a rate of seven percent annually
which is why the average student with their wages not keeping pace based on
what we read here and how the standard of living has diminished as the
purchasing power of our dollar has diminished over time unfortunately
students are going more and more into debt in order to try to get ahead
financially more much more so than their parents ever were because their dollar
just no longer buys them enough because our younger generation especially
Millennials and those who are younger don't have the financial means or don't
have many of the same opportunities their parents once did they are much
like more likely to slip at home longer eight years a free room and board is
long enough that is the feeling of an upstate New York couple who's been
trying to kick their thirty year old son Michael Rotondo out of their house as
incentive they gave him money to get started they even sent him several
letters to vacate but the son says he was not given enough notice so as you
can see this based on these simple graphs and you can read the article but
but I want you guys to notice that if you look at the graph even going back to
1964 the numbers have been increasing the number of young adults who live at
home has been increasing since then because this the cost of living just
keeps going up and obviously as Millennials in the younger generation
are living at home longer they're putting off marriage and one of the
other things they're putting off is Parenthood many of them are waiting
longer not only to get married but they're waiting longer to have children
all right guys I just want to start wrapping up the video right here
I know we talked about a lot of the challenges our younger generation faces
and just adults face now in our everyday world but in the next video in a
follow-up video I'm gonna discuss some solutions of what I think people need to
get do to get ahead financially in 2018 I know and I remember looking when I
learned this information I came to realize that the amount of money I
needed in order just to not only maintain just a basic standard of living
but also now to have to fund my own retirement I came to realize that what I
was doing just even at my job a good job a job were and I'm not actually my
employer here by any means so please don't misunderstand me and I'm not
talking to people who are financially irresponsible here I'm what I'm talking
to those who want to get ahead financially to those who are are
financially responsible even if you are frugal even if you're strategic with
your finances it's becoming harder and harder and harder to get ahead by just
having a job there so what's the solution so that in the next video we're
going to talk about that but it was a hard pill for me to swallow to learn
that what I was doing might not be enough to get me to where I wanted to be
in the future and so as I wrap up this video right here I encourage all of you
to stop and think about what you're doing right now think about where you
want to be financially think about your goals is it enough is what you're doing
gonna be enough to get you to where you want to be in the future think about it
I challenge you to think about it I challenge you I know it's a hard thing
is a scary thing to think about it but I want you to honestly deep down think
about that kind of stuff and and see if your head than on the right path but
because of these factors guys because of things just keep going up exponentially
and many things are increasing much faster than the rate of inflation health
care homes you know cars tuition all these things that many of our parents
had as basic necessities are you know are a lot of them are basic necessities
that these our younger generation has a harder and harder and harder time of
getting ahead and so in the next video we're going to talk about that of ways
to get ahead and what I'm doing right now to get ahead financially based on
the economy in 2018 and beyond I hope you guys enjoy this video I know this is
something a little different than what I normally
produce here on this channel but I hope it made you guys think and I would love
to hear your opinions on this do you guys think a job is enough anymore do
you think that a person with one income can still get ahead especially if they
have a family to have kids can they sit still save for retirement I
would love to know your thoughts I would love to hear what you guys think about
this subject this is a subject that is not taught in school and I don't think
anybody's gonna tell you this information
nobody's gonna pull your head out of the sand nobody's gonna tell you that
whether or not you're on track to hit your goals but I think that if you when
we look at the big picture I find at least for myself that I need more than
just a job to get ahead financially in this economy and I would love to know
what you guys think about that all right guys I love you have a wonderful week
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