Compound interest can help turbocharge your savings and investments, or it can quickly lead to an unruly balance, keeping you stuck in a cycle of debt. Its magic can help you earn more — or owe more.

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Five key facts on how to apply compound interest to become rich are essential to know. Every day, someone wants to know how they can become rich. The discipline of savings is so crucial to ...

Michael Benninger is the lead editor of banking at Forbes Advisor, with more than 10 years of experience in the personal finance space. His writing has been published by the Los Angeles Times, ...