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Finance Friday Articles
- 4 Reasons Your Retirement Plan Is Overly Conservative
- 10 Best Tax-Free Investment Options to Consider
- How Roth IRAs Can Help With Estate Planning
- Index Three Ways
- Navigating Finances in Your 40s: Essential Financial Strategies for Mid-Life
- The Many Different Kinds of Wealth
- The many strengths of municipals
- The Stock Market is Always Changing
- What is the Point of Money?
- When Buy-and-Hold Dies
- Why Trend Following is Harder Than it Looks
- Your Guide to Short-Term Rentals
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Finance Friday Articles
- How Not to Invest
- Is There More to the TSP Then Just the Basic L Funds? Yes
- Managers Don’t Beat Markets (Why Index Funds Are the Best Way to Invest in the Stock Market)
- Picture This
- Safe Savings Rate — What Percentage of My Income Should I Save for Retirement?
- The Importance of Temporal Diversification
- The Stock Market Doesn’t Care What You Say
- What investors can control amid changing conditions
Finance Friday Articles
- How to Make it a Healthy Correction
- How to Think About Credit Card and Travel Hacking
- I Hadn’t Shopped for Insurance in Decades — Could I Have Been Saving Thousands Every Year?
- Is International Diversification Finally Working?
- Not all market volatility is created equal
- Retirement Income Strategies — And Here’s Our Plan for When We FIRE
- Should You Do a Roth Contribution or Conversion?
- What Happens in a Recession?
- What the Rule of 55 Means for Your Retirement Distributions
Finance Friday Articles
- 5 Ways to Set Up Your Kids Financially Without Ruining Them
- Are you holding the right amount of cash, and is it in the right place?
- Best Investment Portfolios — 150+ Portfolios Better Than Yours
- “Fuck You Money” is Useless Without the “Fuck You”
- How Should Your Allocation Change With Age?
- Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) — What You Need to Know
- Troops’ new tax-saving health care benefit enrollment starts March 3
- Where Servicemembers, Veterans Can Get Free Tax Prep Help
- Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?
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