If the average American had a $1 million dollar windfall, how might they spend that money in a single day? After all, it’s than the median U.S. household income, according to the Federal Reserve.

For NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal, it was as if he had a wish list ready to go before the money even hit his bank account. Commercial real estate has beaten the stock market for 25 years — but only the super rich could buy in. Here's how even ordinary investors can Car insurance premiums in America are through the roof — and only getting worse.

But 5 minutes could have you These 5 magic money moves will boost you up America's net worth ladder in 2024 — and you can complete each step within minutes. During a guest stint on an of the financial literacy podcast, Earn Your Leisure, Shaq revealed how he’d once depleted his bank account on luxury purchases because he wasn’t aware some of his earnings were earmarked for taxes. “I don’t know no motherf–king FICA.

They took [something like] $200,000!” he recalled thinking at the time. Here’s how the experience shaped Shaq’s perspective on money and wealth-building. In 1999, Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago developed the concept of “mental accounting” which he as “cognitive operations used by individuals and households to organize, evaluate, and keep track of financial activities.

” In other words, people create mental baskets for different sources of income and e.