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Charting My Financial Path: A Physician’s Journey to Wealth

…Mustache approach and treat my debt as “a HUGE FLAMING EMERGENCY” and be done having to decide between investing and debt paydown. I felt that by paying off the loan…

Christopher Guest Post: Family Money Plan

…money? My First Blogiversary and Income Report How to Pay Off Your Mortgage In as Quick as 5 Years [PoF: I don’t know many physicians who could pay off their…

Live Like a Resident

…so allows you to do several things- First, you can pay off your student loans. Now that they’re all at 6.8% rather than the 1.9% my classmates refinanced at, paying…

Adrian Peterson’s Money Problems: 5 Lessons

…pay, maybe you can go up by 1 or 2% each year after you pay off your debt. Pretty quickly you’ll be helping others more than you can imagine. And…

Top 5 Ways to Start on the Path to Financial Independence

…loan debt like a mortgage, and there are payment plans that will have you paying interest for decades. Unless you consolidated back when you could rates of 2% or better,…

The Story of Dr. Moneybags

…income away to help those less fortunate than you. Let’s call that $10K donated. You pay 109K in federal taxes and another $14K in FICA. Let’s say you live in…

What Is The Average Student Loan Interest Rate?

…9.99% APR VISIT Juno $500 Cashback Bonus for >$100K loan Variable rates (with autopay) 4.99% – 10.89% APR Fixed rates (with autopay) 4.96% – 10.99% APR VISIT Splash Financial $550…

Healthcare Divide: Doctors’ Oath and Policy Crisis

…private-pay services are more profitable than preventive or chronic care, and insurers often pay more, and faster, for non-preventive care encounters. Inevitably, this drives administrative decision-making. With the added mess…

Christopher Guest Post: Apathy Ends

…joy and that is one of the main reasons we are pursuing the FIRE lifestyle. Outside of the steady (above average) paycheck and reasonable health benefits, I enjoy solving problems…

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

…all that you can to pay the least and save the most. When people think about FIRE, images of checking payphones for pennies and selling your hair often come…

Best Non-Salary Perks for Physicians

…than just cashing in a fat paycheck. That also holds for physicians, who might be making some of the best figures in the country but still need additional benefits to…

10 Step Year-End Financial Checklist for Physicians

…Traditional IRAs, Roth IRA contributions have income limits for eligibility. However, Roth IRAs let your contributions grow tax-free, meaning you pay no taxes on your withdrawals in retirement. This flexibility…

How, When, and Why to Buy I Bonds in 2023

…interest after a brief delay. If the U.S. government truly defaults and is never able to pay its debts, we’ve got bigger problems than not receiving interest payments on a…

Breakfast Burritos & Medical Surveys

…pipeline of future medical advances. After all, they’re paying someone to pay me to take these surveys, so the results can’t be entirely meaningless, right? Didn’t Think I’d Qualify…

7 Creative Ways To Catch Up on Retirement Savings

…to pay for your living expenses, or working a few extra years beyond retirement age. Either way, by waiting until you are 70, you’ll be increasing your monthly payments. …

FIRE Crossroads 035: Saving $50,000 a Month to Reach FI

…was in residency to take care of our child, and we didn’t make much progress at that time. One thing we managed to get right was paying off my wife’s…

Multimillionaire Family Tracks Spending for a Year: They Spent How Much?!?

…included a fair amount of travel, a hefty check to the orthodontist, our very last preschool payment, and one of two property tax payments on our primary home. Over the…

How Your Location Can Impact Real Estate Risk

…have to pay more for quality properties and pay a management fee to deal with your tenants and home maintenance. Crowdfunding A growing trend for investors right now is real…

Is 150k A Good Salary?

…a video by Jake Ferrin breaking down why his family lives paycheck to paycheck despite bringing in $130,000 a year. Jake does a good job here to show how much…

Christopher Guest Post: Distilled Dollar

…– with my online site, Distilled Dollar, where I discuss how my fiancée and I went from living paycheck-to-paycheck 4 years ago to now saving over 60% of our income….