The Sunday Best (09/15/2024)

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.

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The Sunday Best (09/15/2024)

The yield curve is a graph that plots the yields of bonds that have the same credit quality but across different maturities. And this time, the yield curve is inverting. Here’s what it means and why you should care. 

We’re not strangers to global warming. So what happens when a continent isn’t equipped to cool down?

Ben Carlson thinks a lot of cash is sitting in money market funds right now. But what happens to it?

You can calculate the worth of a dining experience, but restaurant math isn’t working, with prices higher than ever. 

Here’s why you should feel good about the American economy. 

Although it’s possible to train people to identify scammers, elderly financial fraud is getting worse.

This brings forth the question, Is it harder for women to save for retirement?

America’s tipping system, the finite nature of time, and worker rights. All labor deserves compensation.  

When job hopping is the norm, which path do you take after staying half a decade in one place? To try or not to try?

Great companies don’t always invest well, and investors find it hard to believe that the stocks of great companies won’t turn out to be the best investments. But the data says growth isn’t enough. 

That bag of chips with more air and fewer potatoes, the smaller but low-quality products? It’s not in your head; toilet paper shrinkflation is real, too.

Back to the conversation we all keep having; what your taxes could look like under the Harris or Trump presidency.