Earn more. Spend less. Invest the rest.
What account should your retirement savings go into? As dilemmas go, this is a pretty interesting one: where should you park your retirement savings to maximize their potential? Let’s say
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Student loans suck, but they can be dealt with. Student loans are a bizarre parasitic industry that targets the most naïve and least prepared members of society, only to saddle
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Calls and puts may sound enticing, but it’s best to steer clear. Investing can be a fascinating pastime, as well as a very rewarding hobby – both figuratively and literally.
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Financial independence – year one. It’s been seven months and 17 days since I declared financial independence, cut ties with my employer, since I ended my 11.5-year career at Amazon,
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Lifestyle inflation is a near-certainty, but it’s yours to control. As we grow older or earn more money, it becomes so much more tempting to spend more on nice things,
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Free books are everywhere – the Internet is your friend! Hi! I’m GL, and I’m a bibliophile. I used to have a two-books-a-week habit: I used to scoop up free
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There are some mighty questionable gigs out there… Earlier, I wrote about my least successful and most successful gigs. And now, to finish off this strange, strange trilogy, I’ll talk
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What would you never invest in? The key to achieving financial independence is “earn more, spend less, invest the rest.” Each component of this trifecta is important in its own
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Making quick cash is possible, but there are several nuances… Last week, I wrote about some of my attempts to make quick cash, and how they backfired on me. Fortunately,
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It’s difficult but not impossible to retire with kids. Your typical personal finance blogger is a straight white male in North America. There are some exceptions, of course, but my
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