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The Sun
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
How ‘revenge' inspired Coleen Rooney set to become TV's newest power couple with Wayne amid I'm a Celeb and MOTD deals
SHE spent years of her life being the dutiful wife, closely following husband Wayne Rooney's career while hers took a back seat. But now Coleen Rooney is very much taking centre stage - and it's all about getting revenge on anyone who ever doubted her. 5 5 5 The I 'm A Celeb runner-up Coleen, 39, is said to be keen to shut down speculation once and for all that she is only with footy star Wayne for his money - and thinks making her own cash is the perfect way to do that. An insider told us: 'This is just the start for Coleen and she can be very determined when she wants to be. 'She's sick of hearing that she would be nothing without Wayne or she only stays for the money - she's now a multimillionaire in her own right and she's not stopping there. 'She's the reason they got this big Disney deal and I'm A Celeb proved that she's just as big a star as Wayne.' They added: 'She turned down a lot when the boys were little and now her career is as important as Wayne's. It's the ultimate revenge on her doubters.' The Sun has contacted representatives for Coleen for comment. The Sun told last week how Coleen's earnings have now eclipsed those of the ex-England footballer after business ventures made a £1.3million profit. Figures for her firm, CWR 2021, indicate the income from her endorsements and media career more than tripled in a year. Earlier this year, Coleen agreed to a reported £10million deal with Disney which will see her and Wayne appear in a documentary with their four sons - Kai, 15, Klay, 11, Kit, 8, and Cass, 6. Things are really looking up for the couple as Wayne has landed a £800,000 deal to be a Match of the Day regular. Wayne Rooney lands £800k deal to be Match of the Day pundit as he and wife Coleen become British TV's new power couple He is also signed up as a panellist for the channel's 2026 World Cup coverage from the US, Mexico and Canada. A source added: 'With Coleen's amazing Disney contract, and Wayne's new BBC deal, they will officially become one of the country's most influential media power couples. It's a very exciting time.' 5 5 Wayne Rooney's record-breaking career WAYNE Rooney took the football world by storm when he made his debut for 2002 with Everton. He quickly became the club's youngest-ever goalscorer aged 16 years and 342 days and was named the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year. The striker joined Manchester United in 2004 and spent 13 years at Old Trafford. He went on to make 559 appearances for the Red Devils and scored 253 goals. To this day he is still the club's all-time leading goalscorer. Following his spell with United, Rooney returned to Everton for a season. He also spent one-season stints with D.C. United and Derby County at the end of his career. As well as his impressive club career, Rooney is also England's second-highest goalscorer with 53 goals in 120 appearances, behind only Harry Kane. After hanging up his boots, the England icon turned to a career in management. He took charge of Derby County in 2020 and managed to just about save the club from relegation from the Championship at the end of his first season. However, with Derby handed a 21-point deduction the following campaign, he was unable to keep them up again and subsequently left. Then came a 15-month spell in charge of MLS side D.C. United. He failed to impress during his time in Washington and parted ways with the club at the end of the 2023 regular season. Rooney was controversially handed the Birmingham job in October 2023, replacing John Eustace with the club doing well and sixth in the Championship table. However, in 15 games he suffered nine defeats and managed just two wins. He was sacked in January 2024 with Birmingham down in 20th. The club were relegated to League One at the end of the campaign. He returned to management in May with Plymouth Argyle but managed just five wins in 25 games. The United legend now finds himself out of work once again.
Fox News
10-07-2025
- Business
- Fox News
BYU Freshman AJ Dybantsa Partners With Fanatics for Reported 8-Figure NIL Deal
What is life like being a multimillionaire college athlete before ever stepping foot on the gridiron or basketball court? Just ask AJ Dybantsa, the top-ranked prospect in the nation who is set to suit up for the BYU Cougars this upcoming college basketball season. The 6-foot-9, 200-pound forward out of Brocktown, Massachusetts, has burst onto the scene as one of the most heralded prospects in recent memory. Multiple recruiting outlets rank him as the No. 1 recruit in the 2025 class, and he is widely projected to be the top overall pick in next year's NBA Draft. But before he suits up for the Cougars this year, Dybantsa has been busy in the always-evolving NIL space, agreeing to multiple brand partnerships and carrying an NIL valuation of more than $4 million, per On3. Dybantsa made another big splash this past week, signing a multi-year deal with Fanatics Collectibles, one of the company's most significant NIL partnership deals to date. Fanatics has exclusive collectible partnerships with multiple athletes and welcomed Dybantsa as its newest ambassador in a video clip released on Wednesday. The agreement with Fanatics' memorabilia arm is worth eight figures, according to a source familiar with the deal. The exclusive partnership will be centered around trading cards and memorabilia, including autographs, game-used jerseys, inscriptions and Dybantsa's inclusion in Fanatics brand marketing campaigns. According to Fanatics collectibles, Dybantsa will be featured in a number of upcoming products, among them Bowman U NOW – a program that celebrates moments in collegiate sports – and other Bowman offerings. Dybantsa was already part of Fanatics Collectibles' McDonald's All-American Game deal and has reported NIL partnerships with the likes of Red Bull and Nike. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily.
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Whoopi Goldberg returns to The View to COMPLAIN about multimillion-dollar gig after being blasted for Iran comments
Whoopi Goldberg whined that her multimillion-dollar job co-hosting The View can 'feel like hell,' after returning from a two-week break following backlash over her controversial comments on Iran. The 69-year-old delivered the self-pitying remark at the start of Tuesday's episode, as she and her fellow hosts were met with an especially raucous round of applause. 'Let us say this to you: Thank you for that, because sometimes this gig can feel like hell,' she said, moved by the display. 'And sometimes you feel like people are just angry at you all the time. So, to get a welcome like this this morning, we really appreciate it.' Goldberg had returned to The View on Monday for the first time in two weeks, following a trip overseas and the show's annual weeklong summer hiatus. Before she left, she faced blowback for insisting to her fellow panelists that living in the United States as a black person is just as bad as living in Iran. She appeared to shrug off the controversy by attending a ceremony in Sicily, where she discussed the 'challenges' of being a celebrity. While her salary has not been disclosed publicly, an insider told The US Sun in 2022 that she earned a cool $8million as The View's highest paid host. Goldberg, who has appeared on the show since 2007, is worth an estimated $60million. Her frequent off-the-cuff remarks have gotten her into hot water over the years, including her June 18 comments that human rights violations in Iran were on par with the treatment of marginalized groups in the US. The response on social media was swift ruthless, with comics Bill Maher and Adam Carolla also weighing in to pan the star. After appearing to reference the criticism on Tuesday, viewers again tore into the star. 'Out of touch celebrity says $8 million a year to co-host the View can be hell,' one commenter wrote on X. 'Then donate [your salary] buffoon,' another added. 'Of course it sometimes feels "like hell" for Whoopi. She thinks she's immune from feedback to the garbage takes she and her co-hosts bring to The View?' a third asked. 'What arrogance.' In 2019, Goldberg told The New York Times that she viewed her hosting gig just 'a job.' 'These are not conversations that I'm having with my friends,' she said. 'If they were, we'd be doing it differently. My friends and I can talk about things in-depth in a different way than you can on television.' In November, she claimed she was still on The View after so many years because she needed the money, before comparing the situation to those of millions of other working Americans. 'I appreciate that people are having a hard time,' she said. 'Me, too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, OK? So, I'm a working person, you know?'
Telegraph
03-07-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
The tycoon who gave away his fortune to 20 people
As an engine failed on Carl Barney's flight out of Nevada, the aircraft floated upward – then plummeted. 'A stunning silence followed, a sense of futility and fate,' remembers the 84-year-old multimillionaire, who was born into a threadbare existence in wartime Britain and went on to make his entrepreneurial fortune in the USA. As the plane nosedived from 12,000 feet on that clear evening in January 2014, he remembered the meeting he would miss and then thought: 'I'm going to die.' 'I wasn't scared. My life didn't flash before my eyes,' he recalls. Instead, he thought of his recently updated will and the 20 family, friends and former employees who would receive large sums of money. It made him happy to imagine their reactions but he also considered: 'What a shame, I won't be there to see their faces.' Barney braced for the crash – but it never came. As the plane made a sharp curve and levelled out, it dawned on him that he would survive. In the years that followed, Barney drew up a plan. Instead of waiting until he died, he would give away his fortune now, carving out 20 sums of six figures or more for each of those people in his will. He would do it with a condition: they were to spend it within the next five years and solely on their own happiness. Barney was born in Maidenhead, in 1941, in the post-war rationing years. 'I remember licking my plate clean, we all did,' he says, speaking today over Zoom from his light-filled Pacific coast home in California. He left Britain at 17 and hitchhiked to Australia with £86 and three shillings in his pocket. Three years later, with a taste for seeing the world, he arrived in America, this time carrying $100. For the next two decades, he worked various jobs and made money in real estate before entering education management at 39, building a multimillion-dollar network of private colleges. He was in his 60s when he came to a realisation: 'I was wealthy. I thought 'now what?'' The picture of a prosperous life, tanned with thick white hair and in the kind of shape that belies his age, Barney is precise and considered when he speaks, gracious but pragmatic. He explains: 'My wealth became a problem. A lot of people would like that kind of problem. I'm not a big shot. I don't like planes and yachts and a big lifestyle. I didn't want to just throw it around.' With no children, he had given little thought to what would happen to his vast fortune beyond contributing to causes he cared about. 'In the last 10 or 20 years, I've spent more money on charities than myself,' he says. So he wrote a will. 'A lot of people say, 'I'll leave it to the hospital or church or some big charity.' I think that's a mistake because none of us get successful and wealthy without a lot of help. I made a list of people who, in one way or another, had contributed to my life, and allocated a certain amount of money that I thought would be impactful in their life.' To overlook them, he says, would have been an 'injustice'. The will rested in the far reaches of his mind until that 2014 flight. In the months that followed, he asked his financial advisor and executive coach what they thought about bringing bequests forward and turning them into pre-quests: gifts that expressed gratitude while he was still alive. 'My coach kept saying, 'This is ridiculous, you can't do this to people, how are they gonna react?'' But Barney kept returning to it: 'It was a personal, emotional and mental struggle. It's just not done. Was it authentic? Would it alter the friendship? And how can I give away this money while I'm still alive? Maybe I would need it.' He thought about what was motivating him: he wanted to give his friends the gift of happiness, as he writes about in The Happiness Experiment: A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness, his book about what happened next. And so, one at a time, he began inviting them to his home for dinner to share some news. Collin*, 54, an employee and friend of 20 years, and his wife Rachel*, 47, arrived to an intimately set table, with a chef-prepared meal of beef filet and red wine, on 27 December 2020. 'The invite came at least a month beforehand,' remembers Collin. 'It was intentionally vague. I thought he was either going to tell us he was dying or getting married.' Barney had flown them from their home in Oregon and, while they ate, he turned the conversation to happiness. 'When we finished, he eased in. He told me how much I meant to him and that I was in his will. I remember being choked up. I thought for sure he was dying.' Rachel, who had just been made redundant from her corporate job; was overwhelmed when Barney revealed a six-figure gift: 'Collin and I stared at each other. I had tears in my eyes. I just kept saying thank you.' Just as he would for all his beneficiaries, Barney explained that this money was not to be spent on paying off debts or bills but to invest, now, purely in things that bring them joy. To assist, he would give them a financial advisor and happiness coach to identify what they derive their happiness from and plan their spending accordingly. Barney didn't need to approve the plan but once it was ready, he would send the money. It was a lot to take in. 'He was pretty particular from the get-go about how he would do this,' remembers Collin. 'I don't think anyone's ever given me a thousand bucks, much less this. I'd be a liar if I said I didn't start thinking of all the things I could buy.' He had reservations too: 'I had not done anything to deserve this money. If he had died and left it in his will, that's easy. [But] I was still working for Carl; it was no strings attached but I worried there'd be a huge imbalance.' Barney later tells me that he had contemplated this reaction: 'I said to the people: 'This must not impact our relationship in any way; you don't even have to remain friends with me. You can think of me as dead if you like. You don't have to write to me and tell me what you're doing with the money, you don't have to send me photographs of your fabulous vacations.'' Collin and Rachel went to bed whispering about their plans. Ready to accept, they worked on their happiness plan in the following weeks. They renovated their small lakeside cabin, installed a hot tub and bought an off-road vehicle so they could share their windfall, including with Collin's three grown-up children, while staying true to Barney's request that it be spent on themselves. They joined a gym, paid for a weekly trainer and took a cruise to Japan and Korea. They didn't tell anyone. 'To this day my mom barely knows how much was involved,' says Rachel. Collin adds: 'It wasn't the kind of money that would change our lives for generations. We spent it mostly at the cabin. We were humble, we didn't brag.' Rachel remembers: 'We're usually cost conscious. Spending that much money in that amount of time felt uneasy. Watching the amount go down felt indulgent.' Five years on, it is spent. 'The most fun part was actually taking a really long look at our shared values,' remembers Collin. 'Not a week goes by where we don't talk about it.' Did it make them happy? Their smiles answer. 'It made me feel special, to know he cared about us that much. It made us closer to Carl. If he had died and left the money, a lot would have been left unsaid.' The pursuit of happiness Each of Barney's dinners followed the same script – a conversation about happiness until dessert signalled the reveal. Recipients included his executive assistant and his housekeeper of 25 years. The beneficiaries were not wealthy, although many were 'comfortable'; only one was in financial difficulty. One former employee with cancer used it to gain treatment: 'I told her use the money purely to save your life.' He doesn't reveal the percentage of total wealth he gave away, rather he calculated how much he was spending, adjusted for inflation, put money aside for eventualities like medical treatment and 'came to a point where I would have enough for myself and the rest I could use for other things'. For each friend, he determined a different amount: 'I did not want to overwhelm them more than they were going to be overwhelmed; I wanted to be sure it was going to have an impact. 'I wanted to do it right. It's a lot of money, more than they'd had before. It was also fairly sudden.' And he told each, specifically, why he was grateful. 'If I'd have just tossed the money at them, they wouldn't have been comfortable. I knew I should explain – do you remember the time you did this or when you stepped forward? – that I would not be here today and successful if they hadn't given me that help. Typically the reaction was, 'Oh, no, that's nothing', that they didn't do anything worth this amount of money. In economic terms that was true. But this was not economic.' For Barney's long-standing friends Asher*, 60, and Catherine*, 59, accepting didn't come easy. On a Friday evening four years earlier, the couple had been guests at his home when they received a call that their pregnant daughter, already mother to their two-year-old granddaughter, had been killed by a drunk driver. Their lives were shattered. 'We were emotionally paralysed,' remembers Asher of their mental state when Barney invited them back there four years later. 'I know Carl and could see he was building to something,' says Asher. When he revealed his plan and a sum 'many multiples' of six figures, Catherine remembers: 'I was gobsmacked.' Asher was instantly reluctant: 'My first thought was that this was neither earned nor deserved. It was not part of our relationship; I was worried it would change. I declined and could see Carl was disappointed.' He suggested they think about it. Over the following weeks, they did. 'As we thought more, I told Asher that if someone gave you $50 on your birthday you would accept,' remembers Catherine. 'This was no different – a gift just with many more zeros because Carl had many more zeros.' Asher began to come around: 'I thought if Carl had died, I would have accepted money in his will. Why would I not accept it when he was alive and could enjoy seeing us grow from it?' After four months, he wrote his friend a letter, accepting. 'After losing our daughter, monetary comforts had become meaningless,' remembers a tear-brimmed Catherine. 'We could never be truly happy again.' They decided that the money could help them live again and wrote a plan to spend it on health and fitness, time efficiencies, their home, indulgences and future happiness. 'Financially we were comfortable. We could buy a car or go on holiday,' says Asher. It became 'boost' money. 'We bought a better car, flew first class, stayed in luxurious resorts.' Beyond the car, they did it 'incognito', although they used a little money to help a loved one in need. They hiked up Kilimanjaro and spent money on thorough health checks. Asher's only constructive criticism to Barney: 'He asked us to spend the money too fast.' Some still remains. Their greatest gift, the couple agree, was a life coach who they saw for 18 months, something they had never previously invested in: 'It gave us hope and purpose. It's through that that we learnt to live again.' 'The whole experience showed us that there are clouds that will never go away, but it is possible to flourish,' Asher reflects. 'It was unbelievable that someone would be this generous.' Barney's focus on a flourishing life was not accidental. His website carries the slogan 'love of the good for being good', from Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism – a defence of self-interest and denouncement of altruism that attracts fierce controversy for promoting individualism and free markets. Many of the millions that Barney's Prometheus Foundation has given away are to endeavours that further this philosophy. Were his gifts acts of selflessness or self-interest, for them or for him? 'Both, but not in the same proportion,' he says. 'I knew that the whole idea of my friends flourishing, pursuing happiness, succeeding and doing wonderful things would make me smile, in the same way it does when people watch their children. 'They were acting in the movie of their life and I was able to watch.' He has lived by Rand's teachings and Aristotle's, who philosophised that happiness was the ultimate human goal, all his life, long before he read around them: 'When I left England at 17 it was in pursuit of the good life, adventure, discovery. I've done that ever since.' That pursuit of happiness, he says, sits at the heart of the American dream 'despite all its problems'. 'I love the idea that life is to be enjoyed. We have the right to pursue our own happiness.' Last year, Barney appeared among the Los Angeles Times' list of California's 100 biggest donors to the White House race, following a $924,600 contribution toward Trump's campaign. But he is keen to avoid politics today: 'I want to stay positive. If I started getting into politics over the last 50, 100 years in America there's a lot to complain about.' Does he think negativity and strain have stolen people's attention? 'I think this is exactly what's been happening. People have lost sight of what's really meaningful, what it means to have a good life.' What it means, and whether it is possible, to pursue your dreams. Mike*, 63, and Kate*, 37, had worked, for years, at keeping their own business going. When Barney invited them for dinner in spring 2020, they were struggling to make ends meet. The three had been friends for 17 years and would often dine in each other's homes. This time, Barney asked the chef to make sea bass – Kate's favourite – and began talking. Mike describes 'utter disbelief' at news of their windfall. 'We were both speechless,' says Kate. 'It was a lot of money and we were in debt,' remembers Mike. 'It was unbelievable to us that someone would be this generous.' They accepted without hesitation and worked on their plan for two months. Despite their struggles, the couple loved their life and were already 'quite oriented to thinking about happiness'. But Mike says, 'Thinking about happiness when you don't have a lot of money to put towards it is a very different exercise to thinking about it when you do. Now we had the means to do things we could not previously.' They flew to Crete and Croatia for their 20th wedding anniversary, and took weekend breaks in Santa Barbara. Mike took their teenage daughter climbing in Yosemite and skiing. They made their home 'like new' and installed patios to work, stargaze and exercise from. They also shared some of their gift, helping an orphaned friend of their daughter. 'We were able to pay for some niceties, like driving lessons,' says Kate. 'Sharing was one of the big joys for us.' Mike describes Barney's benevolence as 'contagious'. 'When someone does something like this for you, if you had a trace of cynicism in your soul it evaporates. We probably paid it forward in many ways you couldn't calculate because we were just happier people.' For Kate, the great unexpected gift was how it eased the burden of worry she was used to. 'In the past when we spent money to repair something or wanted to go on vacation there was a push and pull; can we afford it, should we spend it on something else? It can dampen the enjoyment. Having Carl say here's this money with the instructions that it was for our happiness made it so richly enjoyable in a way I hadn't experienced before.' Is money necessary for the pursuit of happiness, I ask Barney later. 'Yes and no,' he smiles. 'It's [about] enough money. If you want a lavish, Trumpian or billionaire's lifestyle you're going to need a lot of money. It depends upon what your dreams are. 'I made more money than I could have expected or even wanted to. I only ever wanted enough to be economically free,' he says. His pre-quest concept proved to him that cash was only the start. 'It was the thinking and the commitment to happiness, and then what happened afterwards – what they did with that, that made the difference.' Indeed, alongside stories of his life and beneficiaries, he includes tips and planning templates for others to do the same in his book. Barney's Happiness Experiment showed him that giving doesn't have to wait. 'It should be done now,' he says. And not only money – property, possessions, time and mentoring too: 'You can give up so many things to people while you're still alive.' Five years on, with most of the money spent, Barney still hears from his beneficiaries. They are all still his friends – and many did send him photos from the holidays they bought with his money. 'If it's not one friend one day, it's another. It happens in a steady stream. They write and share the dreams that they've accomplished and I still get that warmth and love back from them.' For if he has learnt one thing it is this: 'Happiness is not just something that happens to you.'
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The Stocks That Could Make Your Grandkids Rich as Kings
One of the best ways to amass great wealth is to invest for a very long time. Young people are the ones with the most time. Get your young loved ones started investing as soon as they're able. 10 stocks we like better than Vanguard S&P 500 ETF › We publish a lot of articles on how you might become a millionaire -- and it's true, you could become a millionaire. But young people can aim much higher than that: They could become multimillionaires, because they have a lot more time in which their money can grow for them. Here's a look at a handful of investments that have a lot of room to grow over the coming decades. See if you want to recommend any to your kids or grandkids. It's rarely too early to get your kids investing and on the path to smart money management. First, though, here's a review of how money grows, because it's important to understand what's possible: Growing at 8% for $6,000 invested annually $12,000 invested annually 5 years $38,016 $76,032 10 years $93,873 $187,746 15 years $175,946 $351,892 20 years $296,538 $593,076 25 years $473,726 $947,452 30 years $734,075 $1,468,150 35 years $1,116,613 $2,233,226 40 years $1,678,686 $3,357,372 50 years $3,718,030 $7,436,061 Calculations by author via See? Multimillionaire status is possible! It does take time, though. If your kid or grandkid is, say, 10, they have 50 years until they turn 60, which is a somewhat early age at which they might retire. For compounding to do amazing work, you need three things: time, meaningful investments, and a good growth rate. Simply investing in the S&P 500 can be all you need. Over many decades, it has averaged annual returns close to 10%. I've been a little more conservative in the table above because 10% average returns are not guaranteed. Here, then, are some investments to consider. I'm focusing on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) here, because they're very much stock-like, while also being funds. They trade like stocks, but each of these is invested in an array of companies, offering instant diversification. A low-fee S&P 500 index fund is hard to beat, and even Warren Buffett has recommended it for most people. It will immediately have you invested in 500 of America's biggest companies -- including all of the "Magnificent Seven" -- which are Apple, Amazon, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. You might cast an even wider net by investing in an index fund that aims to deliver the performance of the total U.S. stock market, or one that tracks the total world stock market. Here are three solid broad-market index funds to consider: Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEMKT: VTI) Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (NYSEMKT: VT) The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has averaged annual gains of about 13% over the past decade, and 16.2% over the past five years. If you want to aim for a little faster growth, consider the Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEMKT: VUG). It tracks the CRSP U.S. Large Cap Growth Index, which is focused on faster-growing large companies. It recently held 166 stocks, with about half of them in the technology sector and close to 27% divided between the consumer cyclical and communication services sectors. Over the past decade, this ETF has averaged annual gains of 15.5% -- and 17.3% over the past five years. To aim for even fatter returns (while accepting more risk), consider one or two ETFs such as the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEMKT: XLK). It recently held 69 stocks, involved in businesses such as semiconductor equipment, internet software and services, IT consulting services, computers, and peripherals. Over the past decade, this ETF has averaged annual gains of 20.3%, and 20.2% over the past five years. Note, though, that when market downturns happen, as they occasionally do, high-flying growth stocks such as those in ETFs such as these may drop sharply in value -- often recovering eventually. As you aim to help your grandkids (or kids) become multimillionaires, here are some things to keep in mind: Whether you're buying into one of these ETFs or some stocks, buy to hold. That means you keep an eye on the investments, in case some situation develops where selling might be smart. With these broad funds, though, holding for decades is more likely to be safe and effective. Note, too, that the amount invested every year matters a lot. Young people may only manage, say, $100 or $500 per month. But as they grow and enter the workforce, it's important to keep investing and to invest more each year, as they're able. Their earliest invested dollars are the most powerful, as they have the most time in which to grow. They may need to take some of this money out for school or a down payment, but it's good to keep as much as they can growing for their far-off futures. It's also vital to keep inflation in mind. We might think that retiring with $2 million can put us on easy street, but in 50 years, that sum might have the purchasing power of only $400,000 or so. Thus, for best results, young people should aim to invest aggressively. At some point, perhaps as they approach and enter middle age, they may find that their portfolios have grown enough to fund a comfortable retirement. At that point they might just retire, or keep saving and investing, but with a little less urgency. So do your young loved ones a favor, and give them a nudge in the direction of financial independence. 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