personal finance
Finance Friday Articles and Shutdown Pay Info/Resources
- Assets Stolen from IRA – ACATS Transfer Fraud
- How to Wait Until 70 for Social Security Without Spending Less
- How Unlimited Free Stuff from Amazon Almost Ruined My Retirement
- IRS makes changes that will affect your taxes this year and next
- Managing Concentration Risk
- Not Everything Goes into Your Portfolio
- Shutdown FAQ: Servicemember and Retiree Pay
- Wealth for Yourself vs. Wealth for Others
- What Would Your Ideal Financial Advisory Firm Look Like?
Also, below are some shutdown resources about pay:
Finance Friday Articles
- A Doctor’s Guide to Divorce
- Considering Refinancing Student Loans Now? What You Need to Know After OBBBA
- Financial Lessons from a Doctor Who Became the ICU Patient
- Five Pearls of Wisdom From a Legend of Financial Writing
- Getting Access to Your TSP Penalty Free
- Here are some financial resources for troops if shutdown stops pay
- How Bear Markets Work
- The 6 Stages of Diversification — Where Are You?
- The Millionaire’s Dilemma
- The Weirdest Bubble Ever
- What troops and military families need to know about the government shutdown
- Why is the Stock Market Up So Much in the 2020s?
Finance Friday Articles
- 8 Ways to Teach Your Kids About Money
- 12 Reasons to Consider More Roth
- Are Small Caps Dead?
- Best Bond Funds for Your Portfolio: Treasurys, Corporates, and Municipals Explained
- Buy When There’s Bonds in the Streets?
- Do I need an umbrella insurance policy?
- Here’s How Much the Man Who Invented the 4% Rule Actually Spends in Retirement (Spoiler: It’s More Than 4%)
- In Defense of AUM Fees
- It’s So Simple – Fees Predict Performance
- Money is freedom. (Or is it?)
- Navigating the Unknowns of Financial Decisions
- The 2026 Retirement Plan Contribution Limits
- Thinking Outside the Box to Build a Better Income Portfolio
- What Winning Looks Like at 50
- Why the 4% Rule is More Like the 2% Rule
- Why the 5% Rule is the New 4% Rule
- Wish I Was Making This Up
Finance Friday Articles
- 5 Good Times to Retire (and 1 Bad Time)
- 10 Things I’ve Learned About Wealth Management in 10 Years
- Charitable gifting basics: Timing, type, and tax
- How to Handle Taxes Owed on TSP Roth Conversions? Use a Ladder
- International equities: Will the performance continue?
- Is It Time to Raise Some Cash?
- Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts: A Gift from the Government
- Taxes Due on In-Plan Roth Conversions Cannot be Taken From TSP Money
- The Three Biggest Problems With FIRE
- Why a HELOC Can Be a Smart Financial Tool for Physicians
- Why ‘Going 1099’ Won’t Solve All Your Financial Problems
Finance Friday Articles
- A Classic “Efficient Market” Example
- A terrific environment for bonds
- Inventing Problems
- My Hopes For You
- Roth in-plan conversions coming to the TSP in January 2026
- Should Doctors Consider Angel Investing? The Other 5% of Your Money
- The National Debt and World War III — How Should Politics Affect Your Investing Strategy?
- Trump Account: IRA for Kids With No Earned Income
- TSP Adds Detail to Upcoming Roth Conversion Feature
- Whistling Past the Graveyard
Finance Friday Articles
- 13 Things You Can Pay for with Pre-Tax Dollars
- 30 Years
- 75% of Alternative Mutual Funds Have Died. There Are Lessons in That for Would-Be Private Market Investors
- Are We at Bubble-Level Valuations?
- At What Point Do Passive Investing (Boglehead) Principles Not Apply?
- Calculator: Effect of Higher SALT Cap in 2025 Trump Tax Law
- How Much Disability Insurance Should You Buy?
- Inflation from tariffs likely gradual
- Scammers Present ‘Persistent Threat’ to Servicemembers and Veterans, Expert Warns
- When Is It OK to Start Enjoying Your Money?
Finance Friday Articles
- Does Long-Term-Care Insurance Add Up?
- Downward Trend Continues for Future Military Pay Raises
- Hiring a Nanny? Here’s What You Need to Know About the ‘Nanny Tax’
- How to Survive Residency as a Single Earner with Kids
- Is this 1996 or 1999?
- Mind the Gap 2025 – The more investors traded, the less they made (PDF below)
- Morningstar Mind the Gap Again Shows Investors Do Well With Target-Date and Balanced Funds
- The Dividend Irrelevance Theory
- Tripling Your Net Worth in 5 Years
- Where Have All the Contrarians Gone?
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