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Pass The Dough: This Season's Highest Paid NFL Players Pass The Dough: This Season's Highest Paid NFL Players

Pass The Dough: This Season's Highest Paid NFL Players

NFL season is back and with it speculation about the size of the league’s superstar contracts.

While much was made out of Pittsburgh Steelers’ Le’veon Bell’s contract stand off that ultimately made him the highest paid running back in the NFL at $12.1 million per year, data shows us that the real big bucks are made by NFL quarterbacks. In fact, the top five highest salaries (and beyond) this season all consist of quarterbacks.


Top 5 Money Mistakes That College Students Make Top 5 Money Mistakes That College Students Make

Top 5 Money Mistakes That College Students Make

Just as how your college student’s choice of study will affect his or her future career, so will the spending decisions he or she makes now affect his or her financial future.

Research by federal debt consolidation firm Consolidated Credit on how students today rely on credit cards found that 63 percent of college students say they’ve made a purchase without having the funds to pay the bill.


Broke & Famous: 6 Celebrities Who Went Bankrupt Broke & Famous: 6 Celebrities Who Went Bankrupt

Broke & Famous: 6 Celebrities Who Went Bankrupt

Former MLB starting pitcher Livan Hernandez has filed for bankruptcy. Throughout a 17-year career, he made more than $53 million. Today, he says he’s worth less than $50,000. According to court documents obtained by the Miami Herald, Hernandez owes around $1 million to about 50 creditors; as well as an undisclosed amount in back taxes and $220,000 to a local businessman.

He joins a group of rich and famous individuals who’ve endured the setback of bankruptcy, many of whom, like our current President, were able to bounce back.


The 5 Richest People in The World 2017 The 5 Richest People in The World 2017

The 5 Richest People in The World 2017

Do you aspire to create wealth for yourself?

If the answer is “yes!” then you might be inspired by the following people; they’re the current top five richest in the world.

And all of them are self-made billionaires.

So, just how did they earn their massive wealth? And how much are they worth?

5. Mark Zuckerberg

Net worth: $58.5 billion

Source of wealth: Self-made; Facebook

While a sophomore at Harvard University in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook.com – an early version of what everyone knows today as simply, Facebook.


NFL's Financial Winners & Losers NFL's Financial Winners & Losers

NFL's Financial Winners & Losers

In a recent interview with ESPN E:60, running back Trent Richardson revealed that friends and family spent $1.6 million of his NFL earnings over the course of 10 months in 2015.

Bad investments, poor budgeting, regretful spending choices and surrounding yourself with the wrong people have lead many former NFL players into the hole of financial oblivion. Others, however, made it to the other end of the financial spectrum – making investments or doing deals that made them mega rich.


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