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Every post in reverse chronological order from the most recent to the blog’s inception:
- How to Get More Than $250,000 Insured by the FDIC
- The Sunday Best (03/19/2023)
- What’s Keeping You From Your Dream Life?
- Rich Friends, Poor Friends
- Business Card Smackdown: Ink Business Cash vs. Ink Business Unlimited
- An Extra Dollar a Day For the Rest of Your Life
- The Sunday Best (03/12/2023)
- Is There An Ideal Age To Retire?
- Top 10 Ways to Lower Your Taxes
- Backdoor Roth IRA 2023: A Step by Step Guide with Fidelity
- The Sunday Best (03/05/2023)
- 7 Reasons I Don't Use Target Date Funds
- Family vs. Work: The Everlasting Struggle for Balance
- Budget Skiing and Other Oxymorons
- The Sunday Best (02/26/2023)
- Why a Fiduciary Duty Matters When Choosing a Financial Advisor
- The Joy of Spending My Money Guilt-Free
- Why Do Financial Advisors Do Crap Like This?
- The Sunday Best (02/19/2023)
- Five Big Reasons to Retire Often
- Debunking 7 Financial Myths Overheard in the Doctors’ Lounge
- FIRE Crossroads 036: FI at 45 With a One-Fund Portfolio
- Comparing Real Estate Funds: DLP Housing Fund & Origin Investments IncomePlus Fund
- The Sunday Best (02/12/2023)
- How to Reduce the Risk of Investing in Passive Real Estate
- Lessons Learned From 4 Years Outside the Maze
- Post FI Notes 024: Retired Cardiologist Combatting Boredom
- Plotting Your Financial Future in the ProjectionLab
- The Sunday Best (02/05/2023)
- Retirement Catch-Up Contributions — It’s Not Too Late
- Retiring Right
- Comparing Real Estate Funds: Trion Properties & 37th Parallel
- The Best Single Credit Card Solution?
- The Sunday Best (01/29/2023)
- The SECURE Act 2.0: Important Considerations for Physicians
- How to Be an Effective and Ethical Expert Witness
- A Fundrise Review After 5 Years Invested
- Top 5 Ways to Start on the Path to Financial Independence
- The Sunday Best (01/22/2023)
- The Most Important Variables in the FIRE Equation
- Why You Should Never Retire
- FIRE Starter 014: Two Highly Motivated MDs
- The PoF Portfolio in 2023
- The Sunday Best (01/15/2023)
- Which Real Estate Side Hustle is Right for You?
- A 2023 Update on My Passive Real Estate Investment Returns
- My Fifth Year of Early Retirement
- Top Paid Medical Surveys in 2023
- The 2023 Backdoor Roth FAQ
- The Sunday Best (01/08/2023)
- How Do You Endow a Scholarship and How Much Does It Cost?
- The Pros and Cons of Being Wealthy
- Backdoor Roth IRA 2023: A Step by Step Guide with Vanguard
- Post FI Notes 023: Freshly FIREd at Fifty-Seven
- The FIRE-Minded Approach to Life Insurance
- 14 Financial New Year's Resolutions for a Better 2023
- The Sunday Best (01/01/2023)
- 22 Ways to Invest $25,000
- Make Your Own Luck: 16 Ways To Win In Finances And Life
- Post FI Notes 022: 2x FI and Working By Choice
- Ether to FI: Bye Bye 2022 & a Net Worth Update
- The Sunday Best (12/25/2022)
- How This Financial Advisor Makes Big Money with Raw Land
- Wealth Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
- FIRE Crossroads 035: Saving $50,000 a Month to Reach FI
- A Fee-Free Way to Anonymously Donate Appreciated Assets
- The Sunday Best (12/18/2022)
- Tax Strategies for High-Income Professionals
- The Honeymoon Phase of Early Retirement
- Post-FI Notes 021: A Super Successful Surgical Subspecialist
- No, You Didn't Travel for Free With Those Points and Miles
- The Sunday Best (12/11/2022)
- The Many Money Mistakes of a Wealthy Doctor
- The Truth About Bear Markets
- FIRE Crossroads 034: Mid-40s with $4.2 Million Net Worth
- The 1% Rule for Spending on Luxury: Live it Up and Still Achieve FIRE
- A Net Worth Tracker That Auto-Updates Daily
- The Sunday Best (12/04/2022)
- Best Retirement Savings Plans for the Self-Employed
- The Broken Clock
- Post FI Notes 20: Newly Retired and Traveling Like Mad!
- Ask and You Shall Receive: Giving Tuesday 2022
- The Sunday Best (11/27/2022)
- How to Teach Teens About Investing
- Retiring into Uncertainty
- The 10 Worst Cases of Hyperinflation in History
- Ether to FI: Halfway to FI? (a Net Worth Update)
- The Sunday Best (11/20/2022)
- Death, Divorce, and Life Transitions: Important Financial Considerations
- Top 5 Ways to Take Advantage of a Strong Dollar
- The Sunday Best (11/13/2022)
- Financial Advice for "Low-Income" Doctors
- 10 Lessons Learned Along This FIRE Journey
- How, When, and Why to Buy I Bonds in 2023
- The Sunday Best (11/06/2022)
- The Different Levels of Wealth Categorized and Explained
- Why Your Future Is Going To Be Awesome
- Family FIRE Travels: Krakow, Poland
- The Sunday Best (10/30/2022)
- Does High Inflation Destroy the 4% Rule?
- 4 Lessons From 4 Years of Retirement
- The Sunday Best (10/23/2022)
- Creating a Safety Net For Your Life
- Financial Progress After 3 Years of Living Like a Resident
- Which is Better? Chase Sapphire Preferred versus Sapphire Reserve
- Top 5 Ways to Keep Taxes Low in Retirement
- The Sunday Best (10/16/2022)
- How to Use Tax Diversification to Reduce Taxes Now AND in Retirement
- Financial Independence Without Delayed Gratification
- You Spend How Much? Clearly, You Lack Imagination.
- The Sunday Best (10/09/2022)
- Financial and Retirement Planning for Physicians
- Three Years Ago, He Stopped Ironing Shirts
- A Big List of Tax Loss Harvesting Partners
- The Sunday Best (10/02/2022)
- Take Advantage of 100% Bonus Depreciation While You Still Can
- Six Reasons High Earners Fail to Get Rich
- In Defense of FIRE
- The Sunday Best (09/25/2022)
- 9 Financial Mistakes Physicians Make & How to Avoid Them
- 7 Best Real Estate Syndication Tax Benefits
- Three Years of FIRE and the Point of No Return
- The Sunday Best (09/18/2022)
- 7 Great Tax Benefits of Investing in Real Estate
- How to Invest with a Looming Recession
- The Coming Housing Market Downturn
- The Sunday Best (09/11/2022)
- Syndication Returns Explained
- The Four Backstops to the Four Percent Rule
- Crowdstreet: An Honest Review of the Largest Online Real Estate Investing Marketplace
- How a Taxable Brokerage Account Can Be Better Than a Roth IRA
- The Sunday Best (09/04/2022)
- Is the Wealth Effect Making You Think You’re Rich?
- What the Happiest (and Unhappiest) Retirees Know
- FIRE Crossroads 033: Government-Issued Golden Handcuffs
- Starbucks: Buy the Real Estate, Not [Just] the Coffee
- The Sunday Best (08/28/2022)
- Cut Your Tax Bill With a Flexible Spending Account
- We All Knew This Would Happen
- 7 Things You Can Do When You're Done Saving for Retirement
- The Sunday Best (08/21/2022)
- Ominous Predictions
- Minimizing the Impact of a Sabbatical on Your FIRE Date
- The Sunday Best (08/14/2022)
- 8 Common and Costly Retirement Planning Mistakes
- 20 Unique Ways to Change Your Spending Habits
- Most Physicians Who Qualify for Loan Forgiveness Don't Know It, and Time is Running Out
- The Sunday Best (08/07/2022)
- 5 Reasons Passive Income MD Prefers Real Estate Over Stocks
- Why It Seems Like All Doctors Are Quitting Medicine
- Next Level FIRE
- The Sunday Best (07/31/2022)
- What Will Your Tax Rate Be In Retirement?
- Retirement is Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be
- Post FI Notes 019: $5 Million at 55 and Needing Guidance
- Getting Paid What You’re Worth as a Physician: How to Know Your Value and Get It
- The Sunday Best (07/24/2022)
- Federal Rate Hikes and How They'll Impact Your Wallet
- Five Years Retired from Surgery
- How to Thrive as a Physician in a Broken System
- The Sunday Best (07/17/2022)
- 3 Real Estate Lessons Learned from Our Last Investment Property
- 20 Personal Finance Charts To Help You Build Wealth
- Post FI Notes 018: FI Within 5 Years of Fellowship
- Asset Protection Made Easy
- The Sunday Best (07/10/2022)
- Estate Planning On My Mind
- AcreTrader Review: My Investment in Cash-Flowing Farmland
- Seven Lessons From Two Years of Financial Freedom
- FIRE Crossroads 032: Working Nights in Another State - A Sustainable Approach to FI?
- 5 Ways to Retire With $5 Million by Age 55
- The Sunday Best (07/03/2022)
- Why WCI Hates Parent PLUS Loans
- Drawdown Strategy Revisited After 3 Years of Retirement
- FIRE Crossroads 031: $1.1M With Two Pensions Pending
- 3 Years of Homeschooling & Worldschooling: What We've Learned & What's Next!
- The Sunday Best (06/26/2022)
- Sir Isaac Newton’s Revenge on Wall Street
- A CPA Dissects and Critiques a FIRE Plan
- Why Work When You Can Afford to Retire?
- The Sunday Best (06/19/2022)
- 7 Ways to Increase Your Savings Rate
- Historical Market Return and Current Expectations
- Social Security & Early Retirement 2022: Know Your Bend Points!
- The Sunday Best (06/12/2022)
- Yes, You Can Beat the Stock Market
- The Boring Early Retirement Truth: It’s What You Make It
- Post FI Notes 017: Couple in Mid-Sixties Seeking Nirvana
- Family FIRE Travels: Rome, If You Want To
- The Sunday Best (06/05/2022)
- 5 Reasons You Should Not Self-Manage Rental Properties
- I Took a 90% Pay Cut and I Couldn't Be Happier
- FIRE Starter 013: Just Starting Out in Residency
- Common Financial Advice that Makes No Sense for Physicians
- The Sunday Best (05/29/2022)
- The Brutal Tax Treatment of Widows and Widowers
- How a NYE Windfall Was Our Biggest Money Mistake of 2021
- Family FIRE Travels: Catania, a Sicilian City
- The Sunday Best (05/22/2022)
- Pros and Cons of Investing for Cash Flow
- Going Undercover: The Truth About “Free” Financial Seminars
- FIRE Crossroads 030: A Physician and Pharmacist are Almost There!
- Building Wealth in a Bear Market
- The Sunday Best (05/15/2022)
- Would Working Part-time Make You a Better Doctor?
- Why This Retired Physician Owns No Bonds
- FIRE Starter 012: Orthopedic Surgeon With a Lucrative Side Gig
- Earn 2.25% to 15% Back on Purchases With These 2 Credit Cards
- The Sunday Best (05/08/2022)
- How To Profit With Real Estate in a Difficult Economy
- Working Less is Worth Every Penny
- FIRE by Trial
- The Sunday Best (05/01/2022)
- What It Actually Takes to Eliminate Debt
- Who are the Happiest Retirees?
- FIRE Crossroads 029: Two CRNAs Seeking Work-Life Balance
- Family FIRE Travels: Malta in the Mediterranean
- The Sunday Best (04/24/2022)
- Physician Early Retirement: Keys to the FIRE
- Mr. Fates' Reflections on 3 Years of Early Retirement
- FIRE Crossroads 028: Geoarbitraging to Partial FIRE
- Inflation in 2022, the Rule of 72, and What to Do
- The Sunday Best (04/17/2022)
- Alignment of Interests When Investing in Real Estate
- Creating a Withdrawal Strategy when Accidentally Retired Early
- Post FI Notes 016: In Control of Your Time and Your Wealth
- Family FIRE Travels: Athens, Greece
- The Sunday Best 04/10/2022
- Making Golf a More Affordable Retirement Hobby
- Room for Error in Retirement
- FIRE Crossroads 027: Perhaps FI, Perhaps Not, But Working Toward It
- Analyzing All 69 Completed RealtyMogul Equity Deals
- The Sunday Best 04/03/2022
- Balancing Your Financial Goals
- NFL and IOU: 10 Debt Lessons You Can Learn From Football Players
- FIRE Starter 011: An Anesthesiologist and Pediatrician in Debt
- Play Money: Invest AND Have Fun!
- The Sunday Best 03/27/2022
- Crypto and NFTs: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Why We Need Different Types of Financial Independence
- FIRE Crossroads 026: Brewing a Path to FI
- Family FIRE Travels: A Week in Medellin, Colombia
- The Sunday Best 03/20/2022
- The Worst Financial Gifts to Give to Your Children
- 7 Streams of Income: The Millionaire's Secret
- FIRE Crossroads 025: On the Way to FIRE in South America
- The Future is Unknowable. Spend it All or Sock it Away?
- The Sunday Best 03/13/2022
- What Is a Limited Partner in a Syndication?
- 40 Reflections on Life on the Eve of a 40th Birthday
- FIRE Crossroads 024: Coasting to fatFIRE
- Charityvest: A Better Donor Advised Fund
- The Sunday Best 03/06/2022
- If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get, So Keep Asking
- The 15 Worst Ever Pieces of Financial Advice
- FIRE Crossroads 023: Single & Frugal Equals FI by 40
- Taxes on a Million Dollars of Earned Income
- The Sunday Best 02/27/2022
- Remote Work: A Viable Alternative to FIRE?
- Do The Weird Things Now While You Still Can
- FIRE Crossroads 022: Giving Up $700,000 a Year
- 6 Years of Physician on FIRE: Blog Stats and the Year in Review
- The Sunday Best (02/20/2022)
- 3 Ways Real Estate Investors Can Benefit From Inflation
- Creating Active and Passive Income Streams After a Late Start
- FIRE Crossroads 021: 60 Years of Expenses Saved at Age 46
- My Top 5 Airbnb Pet Peeves & How to be a Good Host
- The Sunday Best 02/13/2022
- Ether to FI: 2022, The Best Year Yet & a Net Worth Update
- Exploring the Relationship Between Happiness and Intelligence
- Post FI Notes 014: $20 Million with a Unique Asset Allocation
- FIRE Crossroads 020: Should They Pay Off the Mortgage?
- 6 Weeks of International Travel During Peak COVID
- The Sunday Best 02/06/2022
- 10 Reasons Doctors Spend Too Much Money
- An Epic Fail at Early Retirement
- FIRE Crossroads 019: When $10 Million is Not Enough
- The Sunday Best 01/30/2022
- Inflation and the Case for Real Assets
- The Radiologist's Guest House Fiasco: a $300,000 One-Bedroom in the Woods
- FIRE Crossroads 018: Grossing 7 Figures Annually as a Dentist
- Tax Loss Harvesting with Fidelity: A Step by Step Guide
- Top 5 Tax Loss Harvesting Tips
- Tax Loss Harvesting with Vanguard: A Step by Step Guide
- The Sunday Best 01/23/2022
- 6 Steps to Hire A Virtual Assistant & Why You Should
- Working Toward FIRE Made Her Miserable, So She Changed Course
- FIRE Crossroads 017: A Coast FI Physician from the Land Down Under
- The Curious Splurges of Benjamin Wallace
- The Sunday Best (01/16/2022)
- Investing in International Real Estate
- The 90/10 Rule of Retirement
- FIRE Crossroads 016: 42 with a $4.2 Million Net Worth & FatFIRE Plans
- 5 Things You Didn't Know Empower Can Do For You
- The Sunday Best (01/09/2022)
- Financial Independence Is Not The Holy Grail
- Turning 50: Rethinking the Perfect Day
- FIRE Crossroads 015: 2 Dentists, Nearly $2 Million, and 2 Different Goals
- Money is Fungible & Why That Matters
- The Sunday Best (01/02/2022)
- Should Physician Investors Get A Real Estate License?
- A Hundred Grand Lost On an Employment Contract
- FIRE Crossroads 014: FI Goal of $1 Million by Age 30
- Understanding the 5% Rule Of Real Estate
- The Sunday Best (12/26/2021)
- Their Finances After 2 Full Years of FIRE: Up More Than $1 Million
- Post FI Notes 013: ESI Money Reflects on 5 Years of Early Retirement
- FIRE Crossroads 013: 50 with 5 Years to fatFIRE
- Christopher Guest Post: B.C. Krygowski
- How to Buy a Car the White Coat Investor Way
- The Sunday Best (12/19/2021)
- How to Protect Against Inflation
- Post FI Notes 012: Mostly Retired at 55 with a Military Pension and Millions
- FIRE Crossroads 012: Millionaire Engineer with a Box Company Side Hustle
- The Best Tool for Tax Planning
- FIRE Starter 010: New Attending Practicing Geoarbitrage in the Heartland
- The Sunday Best (12/12/2021)
- Why Creating Additional Income Streams is No Longer Optional
- Unlimited Upside
- Post FI Notes 011: Up Kilimanjaro & Back to Europe for Good in Their 30s
- FIRE Crossroads 011: Two 36-Year Old Physicians Halfway to a FI Goal of $5 Million
- Taking a Cruise During the Pandemic
- FIRE Starter 009: A Resident in the Red Questions His Career Choice
- The Sunday Best (12/5/2021)
- End-of-Year Financial Checklist for High Earners
- Are You Ready to Retire? Probably Not
- Post FI Notes 010: A Chemically Engineered Transition to Retirement
- FIRE Crossroads 010: Dentist on the Cusp of FI in His Early 40s
- Giving Tuesday 2021: You Request. We Give.
- The Sunday Best (11/28/2021)
- The Massive PSLF Overhaul: What You Need to Know
- Five Lessons from Un-Retirement
- Post FI Notes 009: An Encore Career with a Startup
- FIRE Crossroads 009: Dominating as a Dermatologist
- A Passive Investing Strategy to Accelerate Financial Independence
- The Sunday Best (11/21/2021)
- 3 Rules for Using Real Estate Investing to Create Passive Income
- They Don't Need More Money, But He Wants More
- Post FI Notes 008: A Decamillionaire Entrepreneur & Physician
- FIRE Crossroads 008: 2 Physicians, 3 Young Kids, 1 Desire to FIRE
- How We Spend When We Splurge
- FIRE Starter 008: Maxing Out Absolutely Everything
- The Sunday Best (11/14/2021)
- 5 Myths Surrounding Teaching Others About Money
- Accidental FIRE Updates His Net Worth Update & Has Some Regrets
- Post FI Notes 007: An Exceptionally Low Withdrawal Rate & No Desire to Spend More
- FIRE Crossroads 007: $2 Million Net Worth at Age 39. Time for a Career Change?
- FIRE Starter 007: An Emergency Vet in the Pacific Northwest
- The Sunday Best (11/7/2021)
- 5 Reasons Not to Buy Indexed Universal Life Insurance
- How To Build Generational Wealth
- Post FI Notes 006: Gone to Carolina With the Rule of 55
- FIRE Crossroads 006: Mile High, Mostly FI, Working in Finance and Wine
- FIRE Movement Growth in Spite of the Pandemic
- FIRE Starter 006: $800k Increase in 14 Months
- The Sunday Best (10/31/2021)
- 5 Reasons Doctors Prefer Passive Real Estate Investing
- If You Don’t Understand the FIRE Movement, Read This
- Post FI Notes 005: Expat Living in Panama
- FIRE Crossroads 005: Newly FI Physician Figuring Out the Next Step
- Paying Off the Mortgage Early is a Mistake I'll Never Regret
- FIRE Starter 005: A Bachelor With a Passion for FI
- The Sunday Best (10/24/2021)
- Doing Nothing: The Best Goal for High Performers
- Post FI Notes 004: $5.5 Million at 55
- FIRE Crossroads 004: Messing with fatFIRE in Texas
- FIRE Starter 004: Fast fatFI in Five Years???
- The Sunday Best (10/17/2021)
- Real Estate Intensivist: $190,000 in Debt to a Positive Net Worth Before the First Real Paycheck
- Live Like You’re Already Retired
- Post FI Notes 003: FI Radiologist With One More Year Syndrome
- FIRE Crossroads 003: Academic Radiologist with 22 Vacation Days a Year
- Opportunity Zones for Real Estate Investors: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
- FIRE Starter 003: A Young Anesthesiologist’s Take on Geographic Arbitrage
- The Sunday Best (10/10/2021)
- 5 Morning Habits of Successful People
- The Finish Line Keeps Moving for This Primary Care Physician
- Post FI Notes 002: Early Retired Physician Reflects on Investing Hits and Misses
- FIRE Crossroads 002: From Military Service to Private Practice Radiology
- 2021 Reader Survey Results: A Wealth of Information
- FIRE Starter 002: Employed Orthodontist Destroys Debt
- The Sunday Best (10/3/2021)
- How Financial Planning Differs for Dual High-Income Couples
- 5 People Who Reached Financial Independence in Their 30s and Exactly How They Did It
- FIRE Starter 001: Locums NP Leans toward LeanFIRE in 2022
- Ether to FI: The Goal is Happiness, Not Perfection & Net Worth Update
- FIRE Crossroads 001: Anesthesiologist with a 2nd Career & 1st Baby on the Way
- The Sunday Best (9/26/2021)
- 5 Steps to Start Saving for Retirement
- The 4% Rule May Not Work for Early Retirement
- Post-FI Notes 001: Retired Physician Traveling the World with His Party of Five
- DLP Prosperity: Free Membership Has Its Privileges
- The Sunday Best (9/19/2021)
- How to Increase Your Chances of Success in Real Estate Investing
- Never Sell Assets And Pay Less In Taxes Like Billionaires
- Interviewees Needed: the FIRE Starter, FIRE Crossroads, and Post-FI Interview Series
- The Sunday Best (9/12/2021)
- Don't Let Comparison Be the Thief of Your Joy
- Some Fascinating Retirement Statistics
- Physician on FIRE Reader Survey
- Credit Cards for Free Travel & Cash Back
- The Sunday Best (9/5/2021)
- Financial Lessons from the Doximity IPO
- Borrowed Ideas From The Opposite Of Spoiled
- The Side Gigs of an Orthopedic Surgeon in His First Year of Retirement
- Retirement Spending: Which Accounts Come First?
- The Sunday Best (8/29/2021)
- Is Passive Real Estate Investing Really Passive?
- Why You Should Be Practicing Stealth Frugality
- What Is The Average Student Loan Interest Rate?
- The Sunday Best (8/22/2021)
- 6 Reasons Index Funds Remain King
- The Magic of Compound Interest, Revealed!
- Camp FI Review: A Weekend with FI-Curious Strangers
- How to Ruin Your Retirement by Investing in Real Estate
- 2 Years of FIRE: Life After an Early Exit From Medicine
- The Sunday Best (8/15/2021)
- 17 Physician Disability Insurance Mistakes to Avoid
- How to Grow Passive Income & Pay Little-to-No Tax Forever
- Why This Professor Quit Real Estate Investing
- My $1,500 Giveaway Will Be Awarded Soon!
- 20 Steps to Becoming a DIY Investor
- The Sunday Best (8/8/2021)
- Active vs. Passive Real Estate Investing
- Looking Back at a 10-Year Life Plan (5 Years Later)
- Your Evolving Finances at Each Stage of Career Development
- Investing in an HSA: Don't Sit on Cash Like Everyone Else
- The Sunday Best (8/1/2021)
- The Best Time to Buy a Car & 8 Other Steps to Get the Best Deal
- One Fatal Investment Mistake and His Life Savings Was Gone
- The 26 Most Affordable Medical Schools in the United States
- Selling a Home By Owner is Easier Than You Think
- The Sunday Best (7/25/2021)
- Using a 529 Account for Retirement Savings
- The Unknown Billionaire
- When “Professionals” Time the Market: A Case Study
- Why Doctors Don't Get Rich
- The Sunday Best (7/18/2021)
- Capital Gains Tax: A (Mostly) Unavoidable Reality
- The Emergency Fund: It's Still Useless!
- SPAC vs. Traditional IPO: Pros and Cons of Investing in Each
- Fundrise vs. DiversyFund: Comparing 2 Real Estate Investments
- Money is Everything
- The Sunday Best (7/11/2021)
- Do You Suffer from Someday Syndrome?
- Six Important Reasons Not to Retire Early
- Cityfunds: Index-Type Investing for Residential Real Estate
- The Sunday Best (7/4/2021)
- 7 Reasons Not to Have a 100% Stock Portfolio
- How to Know It's Time to Retire
- YOLO vs. FIRE: The Balance Between Saving and Spending
- The Unspoken Risks of NOT Retiring Early
- The Sunday Best (6/27/2021)
- Get 80% of the Benefits of Real Estate Investing with 20% of the Work
- Make Fewer Things Matter: An Epiphany From Cutting A Pineapple
- Travel Restrictions By State
- 10 Ways to Use 122,500 Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
- The Sunday Best (6/20/2021)
- Student Loan Advice: 7 Important Rules of Thumb
- Semi-Retirement: Benefits of Working "Retirement Jobs"
- Prices are Rising. Should We Be Worried About Inflation?
- Whole House Fan Cost: Is the Energy Savings Worth It?
- The Sunday Best (6/13/2021)
- The Most Important Factor in Retirement Withdrawal Plans
- Marginal vs. Effective Tax Rates & Taking Advantage of Tax Bracket Arbitrage
- A Commercial Real Estate Investing Thesis
- How Much Money Does a Doctor Need to Retire?
- The Sunday Best (6/6/2021)
- Favorite Financial Rules of Thumb
- A Scam Victim Tells His Story: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- A Role for Tech ETFs in Your FIRE Investment Plan?
- 10 Apps That Will Help You Manage Your Debt
- The Sunday Best (5/30/2021)
- When Should a Doctor Get Disability Insurance?
- Indulge and Enjoy Life Along The Way to FI
- Health Tech is Booming: 4 Profitable Ways to Start a Tech Side Gig
- The Doctor Loan: My Experiences Buying and Building with Physician Mortgage Loans
- The Sunday Best (5/23/2021)
- The Value of a Financial Advisor
- How To Get Rich Quick in a College Town
- Christopher Guest Post: Financial Success MD
- Why It's So Important to Live in Your Home for at Least 2 Years
- The Sunday Best (5/16/2021)
- 5 Mistakes Real Estate Investor Newbies Make
- Pay Negative Taxes
- Raising Money-Savvy Teens: a Fast-Track Guide
- The Sunday Best (5/9/2021)
- Bernstein Says to Stop Playing When You Win The Game
- 31 Lessons from 31 Years on Earth
- Physician Work-Life Balance and Gender Disparities
- What Would You Do With 9 Extra Hours Every Day?
- The Sunday Best (5/2/2021)
- The WCI Children's Inheritance: A Five Point Plan
- How This FI Physician Decided When to Retire
- The Best Chase Credit Card to Get Depending On Your Stage in Life
- The Sunday Best (4/25/2021)
- Is It Too Late To Start Investing In Real Estate?
- Ranking The Historical Returns of Different Asset Classes
- Eight Lessons From Building A Seven-Figure Real Estate Portfolio (And Adding $1M A Year)
- A Timeshare Presentation Survival Guide: Getting to "No"
- The Sunday Best (4/18/2021)
- Doctors Aren't Burned Out, They are Morally Injured
- Pursuing FIRE in a High Cost of Living Area: One Couple's Experience
- Planning for Plan B: What Happens When You Can't Work Anymore
- How We Got Our Home Offer Accepted in a Crazy Aggressive Seller's Market
- The Sunday Best (4/11/2021)
- Spend $200K in Retirement and Pay $0 Income Tax
- Owning Assets Beats Having a Job
- Facts to Help Your Non-Financially Savvy Friends Turn a New Leaf
- The Taxman Leaveth 2021: A No-Tax Early Retirement
- The Sunday Best (4/4/2021)
- 4 Great Ways to Protect Your Real Estate Assets
- 7 Takeaways from 2 Years of FIRE
- Come On, Get Happy: Money Lessons from the World Happiness Report
- The Sunday Best (3/28/2021)
- There is Hope on The Road to Burnout
- Learn From This Financial Journalist's 5 Money Mistakes
- FIRE & Real Food: Losing 90 Pounds While Adding a Net Worth Comma
- Locum Tenens Pros & Cons
- The Sunday Best (3/21/2021)
- 7 Ways the Rich Pay Less in Taxes (and You Can Too)
- 11 Most Unanticipated Disadvantages of Becoming Wealthy
- Living Stingy During a Hard Life Event
- Spend Less. Live More.
- The Sunday Best (3/14/2021)
- 6 Rules for Owning Rental Properties Without The Headaches
- Everyone is Using The 4% Rule Wrong
- 4 Easy Steps to Kickstart Your Healthcare Branding Strategy
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- Christopher Guest Post: The Wall Street Physician
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