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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 hundreds of headlines, read dozens of posts, and bring you the best of the best to save you time and mental energy.
Financial Independence (FI) is a primary focus, but it’s an awfully broad topic. I tend to approach FI and early retirement from a fatFIRE perspective and through the lens of a physician, so I expect to see those biases in the selected articles.
Related topics that have become recurrent themes include early retirement, selective frugality, tax issues, travel, physician issues, and investing.
For more great articles, take a peek at The Sunday Best Archives. Now let’s get to the best… The Sunday Best!
The Sunday Best (04/14/2024)
It’s 2024, the world feels young and old at the same time and you’re thinking about whether to retire this year, the next, or at all. Retirement isn’t easy to think or prepare for. From home ownership, mortgages, debt, and healthcare, there’s much to consider. But if you’re looking for a sign, here are 5 Best Reasons to Retire in 2024.
With current mortgage and housing prices reaching beyond the sky, Ben Carlson delves into the new generation in the market for a house – millennials. Who is Buying a House in this Market? And how?
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However, lumping in all millennials doesn’t work the way it did before. Read why John Burn-Murdoch thinks not all millennials are created equal, in this piece on how the next conflict is millennials vs each other, based on inheritance and real estate power.
Have you ever brought out the ledgers and calculators to calculate the money you make and Where It Goes? Jonathan Clement from Humble Dollars did some of the math for us.
Speaking of money, here is Jeremy’s simple breakdown of how to live if you want to hit your first million in Personal Finance Club’s how many years it took me to make my first million dollars.
If it’s millions in the bank that row your boat, in addition to a diverse portfolio and early retirement so you can enjoy most of your life, Chris Mamula urges you – Don’t Ignore Your Credit Score.
For our robust investors looking into long-term maneuvers, Stocks Outperform Bonds… Or Do They?
Trouble keeping up with your monthly and yearly goals? Try Retire By 40’s spreadsheet from their March 2024 FIRE update, plus some fun fitness and travel goals; remember, the entire point is to build a life you want to live.
The noise from financial markets filled with advice of all sorts can be overwhelming and detrimental to your investment decisions. Bob French offers an intriguing insight into the Efficient Market Hypothesis; “If you can’t beat the market, you might as well get the market.”
Go back to history and learn from it with Barry Ritholtz’s Short History of Stocks. On the subject of history, are we economically surviving, thriving, or in limbo? Here’s What Recession? State Coincident Indicators.
No one will brief you on how achieving early retirement means you’ll have to think about healthcare beyond the workplace. But we cover 8 Healthcare Options For Early Retirees.
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