5 Money Rules That Stopped Working

The Money Advice Your Parents Swore By Is Now Wrong
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Which money rules stopped working? The five your parents swore by: buy a house, keep cash in the bank, max out your 401(k), buy the S&P 500 and stay loyal to your company.

Every money rule your parents taught you still sounds smart. That’s the problem. One of them costs the typical homeowner about $16,500 a year on top of the mortgage. Another ended with about 8,000 people at Meta getting a layoff email, some at 4 in the morning. Net Worth Calculator: https://www.alux.com/nw High Net Worth Individuals’ Favorite app: https://www.alux.app

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0:00 – Introduction: The Rules That Still Sound Smart
0:37 – Big Rule 1: “Your House Is Your Best Investment”
1:14 – 1.1 Owning a Home Costs About $16,500 a Year on Top of the Mortgage
3:05 – 1.2 Home Prices Are Rising Slower Than Inflation
5:03 – 1.3 Home Prices Fall When Cities Let Builders Build
6:58 – 1.4 In Year One, 88% of Your Mortgage Payment Is Interest
9:17 – 1.5 The Typical First-Time Buyer Is Now 40 Years Old
11:29 – 1.6 Paying Off a Cheap Mortgage Early Loses You Money
13:29 – 1.7 Owning a Home Can Cost You a Better Job
15:32 – Big Rule 2: “Money in the Bank Is Safe”
15:50 – 2.1 Cash in the Bank Has Lost Almost a Quarter of Its Buying Power Since 2020
17:51 – 2.2 Big Banks Pay $2 a Year on $20,000 of Savings
20:12 – 2.3 The Money You Deposit Legally Belongs to the Bank
21:32 – 2.4 Your Bank Earns More on Your Savings Than You Do
23:06 – 2.5 Your Brokerage Can Pay You Almost Nothing on Your Cash
25:06 – 2.6 Even a 4% Savings Account Loses Money After Tax and Inflation
26:28 – Big Rule 3: “Max Out Your 401(k) and You’ll Retire Comfortably”
26:54 – 3.1 The 401(k) Was Never Designed to Pay for a Whole Retirement
28:40 – 3.2 The Employer Match Is the Only Part That Still Works
30:32 – 3.3 Your 401(k) Is Locked Until You’re 59 and a Half
33:11 – 3.4 Part of Your 401(k) Belongs to the IRS
35:31 – 3.5 A Fee Under 1% Can Cost You $136,000
37:25 – 3.6 Social Security Already Spent Your Taxes, and It Runs Short in 2032
40:23 – Big Rule 4: “Just Buy the S&P 500 and You’re Diversified”
40:41 – 4.1 Nine Companies Make Up 39% of the S&P 500
42:20 – 4.2 Your Index Fund Is a Giant Bet on AI
44:32 – 4.3 Your Fund Buys More of Whatever Already Got Expensive
46:48 – 4.4 Japan’s Stock Market Took 34 Years to Recover
49:12 – 4.5 The Next Ten Years Will Probably Pay Less Than the Last Ten
51:18 – 4.6 In 2025, Stocks Outside the US Nearly Doubled the S&P 500’s Return
53:29 – Big Rule 5: “Be Loyal and the Company Will Take Care of You”
53:58 – 5.1 People Who Switch Jobs Get Bigger Raises Than People Who Stay
56:07 – 5.2 Your Job Is Being Priced Against AI
58:13 – 5.3 Pensions Are Almost Gone, and Some of the Ones Left Broke
1:01:09 – 5.4 Your Raise Was Decided Before Your Review
1:03:04 – 5.5 The Longer You Stay, the Harder a Layoff Hits
1:05:01 – 5.6 Your Company Will Always Put Itself First
1:07:51 – Bonus: Every Broken Rule Needed Someone Else to Keep a Promise

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