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Finance Friday Articles
- 7 Steps to Estimating Your In-Retirement Cash Flow Needs
- 8 Things to Do with Financial Independence Besides Retire Early
- A retirement safe from climate change? Ask the tough questions about real estate and property insurance
- Biggest military pay raise in 20 years may be boosted even more because of inflation worries
- Common Financial Advice that Makes No Sense for Physicians
- Compounding in the Stock Market is Messy
- Helping Natural Savers to Spend During Retirement
- In Investing, Simple Beats Complex
- Investing in a high-inflation world
- My $233 Surgery
- Target date funds are a rare win for the behavioral finance crowd
- Target Date Funds – No Guarantees
- The Top 529 Education Savings Plans of 2021
- TSP Projects Just 2-3% of Investors Will Use Mutual Fund Window
- What Income Do You Want to Retire At?
Finance Friday Articles
- 10 Simple Tips For Better Investing
- A bear market reading list
- Crypto is probably a bad investment!
- Don’t Believe in the “Safe Withdrawal Rate”
- Finally, a Stock Market Crash!
- Has Inflation Peaked?
- How Crypto Disappeared Into Thin Air
- The Best Places to Park Your Short-Term Investments
- The early bird gets the advantage, and other tips for college savings
- TSP Investment Window to Open June 1
- TSP Previews Screening Tool for Mutual Fund Window
- Vanguard: Growing Pains or Abandonment of Its Mission?
Finance Friday Articles
- Are Vanguard’s IT Systems At The Breaking Point?
- Bear Market Playbook
- Bitcoin’s massive plunge shows why it shouldn’t be in your 401(k)
- Cryptocurrency Is Failing Its Investment Test
- Get Shorty (When it comes to bond duration)
- How to Bear It
- How to Think and Act For the Long-Term
- My Bear Market Survival Guide
- The Best Investment Strategy For This Market
- The Four Horsemen of the Investor Apocalypse
- What Should Accompany Stocks: Cash or Bonds?
- Why This Retired Physician Owns No Bonds
- Would Working Part-time Make You a Better Doctor?
Finance Friday Articles
- 3 Temptations Docs Should Avoid When Trying to Grow Their Money
- 20 Lessons Learned
- Amid volatility, find safe harbor in patience, perspective
- Don’t Panic Sell
- How Long Do Bear Markets Last?
- How to Invest with a Looming Recession
- Pentagon’s top general pledges ‘a hard look’ at troops’ current housing allowance levels
- The Case Against Tax-Loss Harvesting (I’m pretty sure I’m the person he mentions in the 1st paragraph. I don’t tax loss harvest as I have other things to do with my time, and I mentioned this to him during my interview on his podcast.)
- The Case For Buying a House Right Now
- The Cheapest Way to Own a Car
- The Real Enemy – Managing both volatility and risk in uncertain times
- The Rich And The Wealthy
- There Is Only One Reason to Have Diamond Hands
- This Is Average
- Treasury Announces Another Sharp Increase in I Bond Rates
- TSP in Transition: What to Know About New Services, Downtimes Coming Soon
- Why Rates Matter
- YOU PASSED ROTH IRA INCOME LIMITS, WHERE SHOULD YOUR NEXT DOLLAR GO?
Finance Friday Articles
- Big Financial Questions? Step Away From the Spreadsheet
- Book Review: The White Coat Investor’s Guide to Asset Protection
- How to Convince Yourself to Keep Investing during a “Falling” Market
- Ominous Predictions
- Prices Down, Value Up
- Should You Buy a Home While on Active Duty?
- The Diversification Myth of Alternative Investments: How Illiquidity is Mistaken for Low Correlation
- TSP Finalizes Investment Window Policies; Opening Just Ahead
- TSP Responds to Criticisms of Fees, Other Investment Window Policies
- Which Asset Classes Protect Against Inflation?
- Why Does the Stock Market Go Up Over the Long-Term?
Finance Friday Articles
- A Stock is Not an Index
- Best Practices in Investing — How to Make Your Money Grow
- Falling Hard (this very brief article is exactly why I don’t invest in individual stocks, sectors, etc. and just stick to boring total market index funds)
- Fending Off Inflation
- Look Before Leaping Into Retirement
- Physician Early Retirement: Keys to the FIRE
- The Four-Quadrant Model of Real Estate Investing
- The Pros and Cons of Market-Cap-Weighted Indexing
- Top 5 Reasons to Work after Attaining Financial Independence
- Trust Issues
- Vanguard’s investment and economic outlook: May 2022
- When Cash is King
Finance Friday Articles
- 4 Reasons the Housing Market Won’t Crash
- Asset Allocation Drives Returns
- Financial Questions Where the Answer All Depends
- How to Build a Portfolio You Don’t Have to Babysit
- How To Prepare Your Adult Children For Their Inheritance
- How to Use I Bonds
- Inflation in 2022, the Rule of 72, and What to Do
- Is Cryptocurrency Really a Portfolio Diversifier?
- Should I Invest in Cryptocurrency?
- The Best Robo-Advisors of 2022
- Why It’s So Hard to Spend Money in Retirement
- Why Staying the Course Is Hard
- When inflation volatility spikes: Setting a realistic withdrawal rate
- You’ve Been Thinking About Inflation All Wrong
Finance Friday Articles
- A Step by Step Tax-Loss Harvesting Guide
- A World of Pain – Investing Returns in the First Quarter
- How Much Disability Insurance Should You Buy?
- Misleading Ourselves While Investing
- Should I Pay Off My Student Loans?
- The Predictive Power of the Yield Curve
- The Yield Curve Just Inverted…Now What?
- What the yield curve is—and isn’t—telling us
Upcoming TSP Changes and Finance Friday Articles
The TSP will be transitioning from May 16th to the first week of June and there will be limits on transactions during this time. Here you can read about the changes and key transition dates.
- 7 Tax Deductions Doctors Miss Out On
- Do You Need a Financial Planner?
- How to Estimate Bond Returns
- Is the Housing Market Broken?
- Panic Selling Quantified
- Rent vs. Buying a Home: Why We’re Financially Independent and Renting
- Some Reminders About the Stock Market
- The First Thing You Need to Do Before Investing Your Money
- The Wasted Effort of Active Trading
- Treading Gingerly – Where Should Bond Investors Go in a Search for Yield?
- Troops would see a 4.6% pay raise next year under Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget plan
- TSP Changes Coming in 2022
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