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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.
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The Sunday Best (10/13/2024)
In 2021, the US cut child poverty by as much as 40 percent using one of the most effective anti-poverty tools the country had ever devised: the expanded child tax credit (CTC). But do the benefits of the expanded child tax credit actually fade with time?
With age comes responsibility, and what seems like more money than you can ever spend turns into very little as luxuries and expenses add up. We’ve talked about HENRY’s before: High Earner Not Rich Yet.
Whiskey, like gold, wine, and real estate, is increasingly recognized as a viable alternative investment asset. Over recent years, whiskey investing has surged in popularity, and now might be an opportune time to capitalize on this growing market.
The economy is already delicate, and the hurricanes, in addition to the Boeing strike, will make economic data messy.
Do Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street Run the World? Looking at Apple’s (AAPL) biggest stock owners, you might just think so…
Various pundits and some media outlets have predicted a potential crash in the U.S. housing market for several years. These gloomy predictions have typically cited economic indicators and market dynamics, including rising interest rates and market volatility.
It’s entirely possible that the moral panic surrounding phones is just that…panic. As experts look for correlations between social media use and adolescent mental health problems, there may not be enough evidence.
Higher life expectancy, fewer deaths by overdose, changing attitudes towards substance abuse and obesity rates. Catch a glimpse into the current American health statistics.
It looks like a good year for biotech IPOS: Upstream is pricing a $255M IPO in a bid to challenge Amgen and AstraZeneca’s asthma drug.
Fewer men are attending college than ever before. Why aren’t we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
Macklemore’s Thrift Shop wasn’t just music but a manifesto. From doing away with snobbery and knowing your size, let’s learn the best secrets for secondhand shopping like a frugal warrior.
Thinking about retirement? Dana Ferris from HumbleDollar shares her one-year countdown to July 2025, combining smart financial moves with exciting personal goals.
