Compound Interest is your money growing for you by itself, and then the money that it grew, also continues to grow, creating the phenomenon called Exponential Growth. Much like a snowball, the more times you roll it, the bigger and faster the diameter gets. That is exactly what you would want your nest egg to do. Albert Einstein is credited for saying that Compound Interest is the greatest mathematical invention of all time. The financial industry has done us a disservice for how little they ...