Compound Interest: Time Makes Money

Listen up because this is the money hack nobody teaches you in school. Compound interest

is literally interest earning interest, and it's the closest thing to free money you'll ever find.

Picture this: you save $100 a month starting at 20. By 65, you've got $151,550

with just $54,100 of your own cash. Your twin waits until 50, saves way more aggressively,

and only ends up with $132,147. That's the power of time doing the heavy lifting for

you. :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/compoundinterest_final-5c67da5662ba458f8d9d229ab4ca4292.png) Here's what's wild. A $10,000 deposit at 5% interest grows

to $64,700 in 10 years with monthly compounding versus just $50,000 with simple interest.

That's an extra $14,700 for doing absolutely nothing different except choosing the right