I’m De-Risking My Portfolio
The VTSAX Total Stock Market Index Fund went up 20.99% in the crazy year called 2020. So far in 2021 as of this writing it’s up another 18.3%. That makes for a total increase of 39.29% since Jan 2020, two...
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Is It Best To Take The Safe Path?
One of my favorite professional cyclists retired at the end of 2016. Had this blog existed then I would have written about it at the time since her story relates to career and finances. Alas, I’m doing it now. Evelyn,...
Emotions Have No Place In Your Investment Strategy
Chances are when someone smiles at you you will smile back. Even when you’re having a crappy day. Emotions and their expression are contagious. It’s human nature. According to this article from Psychology Today: Happiness extended up to three degrees...
Are Millennials Afraid Of Risk?
From October 2007 to March 2009 equities lost a sobering 54% of their value. Many millennials were just getting started in their careers during this time, and many more were still in college watching the horror show from the proverbial...
My Health Insurance Company Wants Me To Be Unhealthy
It was New Year’s Eve 2016, and I had 394 running miles for the year. I’ve always been a little bit of a numbers guy, so it bugged me that I might end the year that close to 400 and...
Failure And The Art Of Abseiling
This post is about failure. Yes I know. That’s a topic that’s been written about quite often. J Money over at Budgets Are Sexy did a cool post a little while back listing out some major failures in his life...
Sensationalizing Risk
Modern media has a way of sensationalizing things, if you haven’t noticed. This is probably because it works, it’s good for views, which is good for advertising dollars. Combine that with the phenomenon of things going viral on social...
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