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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...
Poverty, Bubbles, And The Line
I sat there in the passenger seat of my buddy Don’s car. He was in the drivers seat but we weren’t going anywhere. We just sat, drunk off our asses in the parking lot of a strip club in Baltimore. ...
Sometimes A New Car Might Be Better
Now hold on AF readers, don’t freak out at the title yet. You know a major reason I got to financial independence in my early 40’s was because I bought older used vehicles. The kind we used to call hoopties....
FINCON 2018, The All-Star Game
Wow, FINCON. To say it exceeded my expectations would be an understatement. I’ve figured out money, how to save it, invest it, maximize it’s utility in my life. I reached financial independence in my early 40’s and semi-retired from my...
Which Cities Have The Most Ultra-Rich?
It’s official, according to research firm Wealth-X New York no longer has the largest population of ultra-rich folks. As this Bloomberg piece reports, Hong Kong now has the distinction of having the highest number of people worth at least $30...
How Being Underpaid Took My Career To The Next Level
Way back last century, I was still just a few years into my government career after leaving the private sector. It was a massive cultural change to go to a government job from a small dot com company, and I...
All FIRE’D Up!
Are you ready folks? I was running the other day and this song came blaring out of my headphones. Crank it up while you’re reading and just rawk!! I had a crush on Pat Benatar when I was...
What Alex Honnold Can Teach Us About Living
Okay, if you bothered to open this post after seeing the title you probably fall in one of two camps. The first camp are people who follow the world of outdoor sports and who are possibly climbers or know something...
Are Stagnant Middle Class Wages a Myth?
*Note – I wrote this post just before the Census Bureau released the official 2017 Median Household Income Numbers. I may update these numbers in the future to reflect the 2017 data. You can find my post on the new...
Median Household Income In America Tops $60,000
Official median household income data for 2017 has finally been released. The Census Bureau American Community Survey data for 2017 shows the median household income for 2017 was $61,372, an increase of 1.8 percent. This equates to an increase of $1,492 for a...
Swallow Your Pride And Live Below Your Means Once In A While
Back in 2007, while looking for another adventure, I decided I needed to visit the Galapagos Islands. It’s a Unesco World Heritage site and the place where Charles Darwin solidified much of his theory of evolution. Needless to say the...
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