It’s perhaps been discussed to death and covered so many different times that it’s becoming somewhat of a cliché, that being just how exactly one goes about making their money grow. The principle is simple — invest whatever money you have with the aim of ideally having it generate an income passively, but that’s perhaps where all the barriers start forming.

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It could be argued that the worldwide financial crisis that began in 2007-2008, and still resonates today, was fueled by financial illiteracy. Writing on the US News site in August 2016, entrepreneur and performance coach Josh Felber argued that the crisis was caused, at least in part, by people forgetting some very basic lessons about money, perhaps especially this one: “Don’t borrow more than you can repay.”