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The Sunday Best (5/19/2019)

The Sunday Best is a collection of articles I’ve curated from the furthest reaches of the internet for your reading pleasure. Every week, I scan […]

12 Ways to Simplify Your Taxable Brokerage Account

My taxable account might be my favorite account. It holds about half of our retirement assets, is immediately available, and is more flexible than any […]

6 Lessons I Learned from Failed Business Attempts

Behind most successful ventures are a string of failures. It’s true. A person’s first grand idea rarely works out. The key is to fail forward […]

Stealth Wealth and Financial Independence: A Q&A with PoF

A while ago, I was interviewed by a site much bigger than this one for a story on stealth wealth and financial independence. Knowing this […]

The Sunday Best (5/12/2019)

The Sunday Best is a collection of articles I’ve curated from the furthest reaches of the internet for your reading pleasure. Every week, I scan […]

Don’t Forget To Do a Risk-Benefit Analysis When Investing

A comment I see not infrequently on the forums and Facebook Groups I haunt goes something like this: “If you want $100,000 in retirement income, […]

Christopher Guest Post: Can I Retire Yet?

I have the distinct pleasure of welcoming Chris Mamula back to the site. The prolific writer who started Eat the Financial Elephant, took over the […]

Rewards Made Easy: The Best Cash Back Credit Cards

Every time you swipe a credit card, the merchant pays a fee in the neighborhood of 3%. Businesses that want to be profitable will factor […]

href=”http://www.physicianonfire.com/category/sunday-best/”>The Sunday Best is a collection of articles I’ve curated from the furthest reaches of the internet for your reading pleasure. Every week, I scan […]

The 10 Percent Rule: Limiting Lifestyle Creep

We have the 1% rule for rental properties, the 4% rule for safe withdrawals in retirement, and now the 10% rule from Dr. James Turner […]

Healthcare Costs in Retirement – Don’t Make this Big Mistake

Today, we’re going to talk about the healthcare costs all will face in retirement, at least under the system we currently have for traditional-age retirees, […]