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 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 of course, investing.
For more great articles, take a peek at The Sunday Best Archives. Now let’s get to the best… The Sunday Best!
Jorge Sanchez, MD, curated this week’s articles.
The first half of 2023 is over, and so far, the year has been full of surprises. From run on the banks to the recession that never came, Bilellol ists their top 10 Surprises From the First Half of 2023
- On that matter, Ben Carlson from A Wealth of Common Sense explains why the economy hasn’t crashed despite interest rates going from 0% to 5% in a short amount of time.
Is a house your best investment? In their article, 3 Overrated Financial Concepts, A Wealth of Common Sense, discuss the true rate of return on their home, if any.
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With half the year to go, there’s still plenty of time to deploy some funds and invest in your future in 2023. Here are 25 ways to invest $25,000 in 2023.
In this podcast episode from ChooseFI podcast, Chad Carson offers excellent insights on how to confidently begin real estate investing and stay motivated toward having your investments align with your personal goals and desired life: Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor
Being self-employed means that you have options to minimize your taxable income. In this week’s post, we took a look at how sole proprietorships are taxed as well as how to maximize your tax credits and other tax-saving opportunities: Ideal Income for Sole Proprietors: Maximizing Your Take-Home Pay
As a wise man once said, “Money makes money. And the money that money makes makes money.” In this article, Validea discusses why compounding might be the most crucial concept in investing and how you can leverage it to grow wealth: Compounding: The Silent Hero in Your Investment Portfolio.
Ben Carlson from A Wealth of Common Sense explains what makes timing the market so tempting and whether or not he thinks this is a good strategy.
In part three of his estate planning series, Thomas Kopelman looks at advanced estate planning strategies that high net-worth individuals are using: Advanced Estate Planning Strategies.
The temptation to speculate is seductive. Morning Star explains why investing for the long term is still the best strategy.
Savant Wealth implores its readers to re-imagine what their post-work years could look like by leveraging intellectual capital through a victory lap career and how to lay out a roadmap for getting there: Leveraging Your Intellectual Capital in Victory Lap Retirement
They say the U.S. stocks are overvalued and, therefore, we should expect a correction. Nick Magguilli from Of Dollars and Data disagrees. He explains why he believes valuation multiples are likely to stay above their historical norms for the foreseeable future: The Problem with Valuation
Does money buy happiness? Balance Money explains whether higher income can make you happy and the key factors that affect happiness: How Much Money Do You Need To Be Happy?
ChooseFI podcast guest Brian Feroldi discusses important truths and takeaways he’s learned as a decades-long investor: Fundamental Truths of Investing.
In this podcast episode from Afford Anything, economist Peter Atwater explains the hidden dynamics that shape market behavior and the profound effect of consumer confidence: Mind Games: How Confidence Shapes Our Financial Markets
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