Finance Friday Articles

Posted on January 24, 2025 Updated on January 21, 2025

• 9 Ways to Increase Your Investing Return
• Aging and the Impact of Cognitive Decline on Investment Decisions
• Reality Check
• The End Matters Most: Compound Interest at Its Finest
• What Does it Cost to Be Entertained By Your Investments? Try 14% a Year
• What’s a High Income?

Finance Friday Articles

Posted on January 17, 2025 Updated on January 17, 2025

• 5 Little-Known Uses of Roth Contributions and Conversions
• Are We Bullish Enough? (Redux)
• Beyond 529 Plans: Other Savings Options for Education
• Doctors Can’t Spend More Than Half Their Income
• Go Buy Disability Insurance!
• Historical Returns For Stocks, Bonds, Cash, Real Estate and Gold
• How to Pay Next-to-Nothing in Taxes During Retirement
• Is Financial Planning Different for Dual-Income Couples?
• Is There a Problem with Passive Investing?
• Kick-start the new year with a financial plan
• Retirement Spending Is Ridiculously Tax Advantaged
• Spending It
• Thrift Savings Plan Planning to Unveil Roth Transfer Option in 2026
• TSP Millionaire Count Increases by 40,000 in 2024
• Updating My Favorite Performance Chart For 2024

Finance Friday Articles

Posted on January 10, 2025 Updated on January 9, 2025

• 2024 strong equity returns: From caution to celebration to rebalancing into fixed income
• How Much Money Physicians Actually Need to Retire
• How to Get Rich Fast
• TSP to Offer In-Plan Roth Conversions in 2026
• What You Should Know About the Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account Program
• When Will I Get My 2024 Tax Statement?
• Why 529 Plans Win the Education Funding Game
• Why Performance Chasing Is an Investing Error
• Your 2025 Pay, Pension, and BAH Update

New health care savings benefit coming to troops in 2025

Posted on January 4, 2025 Updated on December 29, 2024

Finance Friday Articles

Posted on January 3, 2025 Updated on January 1, 2025

• 10 Reasons You’re Not Stupid for Paying Off Your Debt
• 10 Things You Want to Know About Medical Malpractice
• Don’t Bet Against Biology
• Global Diversification is Still Working
• Investing: That Thing Rich People Do
• Navigating 2025: Some key insights from the past year
• Tax Considerations for Special Needs Families
• TSP Investment Limits, Other Key Dollar Figures Changing
• What’s a Safe Retirement Spending Rate for 2025?
• When a Crystal Ball Isn’t Enough to Make You Rich
• Why Do Some Doctors Get Declined for Disability Insurance?
• Why Your Credit Score Is Not Your Adult GPA
• Worth Repeating

Finance Friday Articles

Posted on December 27, 2024 Updated on December 25, 2024

• Don’t Expect a Repeat
• Forget You
• Homeownership Isn’t For Everyone
• ‘How Much’ Matters More Than ‘What’ in Investing
• Inflation Is NOT Good for the Wealthy
• The Most Hated Stocks in the World
• What’s Changing for Your Retirement Contributions in 2025 and Beyond?

Finance Friday Articles

Posted on December 20, 2024 Updated on December 19, 2024

• Doubling Your TSP (C Fund vs G Fund)
• Investing in Stocks at All-Time Highs
• Sharing Lessons
• The 3 Best Inflation Hedges
• The Simple Life
• The Sky is (always) Falling: Why This is Not the Time to Change Your Investment Strategy
• Time to Check
• Troops to get an average housing allowance boost of over 5% in 2025
• Why Amortization Based Withdrawal (ABW) Works Better Than Safe Withdrawal Rates (SWR)

Finance Friday Articles

Posted on December 13, 2024 Updated on December 12, 2024

• 2024 Bogleheads Conference Videos
• Finding Contentedness
• How To Avoid Investment Fruit Loops
• My Favorite Investment Writing of 2024
• My Rule for Avoiding Lifestyle Creep: Don’t Live Beyond Your Assets
• Pennies and the Backdoor Roth IRA
• Pick Your Peril
• The 4 Types of Investment Mistakes
• We’re too obsessed with cash
• Why I Don’t Invest in Real Estate

Finance Friday Articles

Posted on December 6, 2024 Updated on December 5, 2024

• Analysis shows troops financially stronger in 2023 than pre-pandemic
• Bet on Low Costs
• Doctors Need to Budget, Too (With a Few Examples)
• End of Year Financial Checklist for 2024
• Thank You for Your Kids’ Service: Resources for a Military Family
• The Myth of the Tax Write-Off
• Top 10 Ways to Lower Your Taxes and Lower Your Tax Bracket

Finance Friday Articles

Posted on November 29, 2024 Updated on November 29, 2024

• 7 Things Wealthy People Don’t Have to Worry About (and 7 They Do)
• 20 Lessons From 20 Years of Managing Money
• Discounts for Doctors and Healthcare Workers in 2024
• Is It Too Late to Buy Bitcoin?
• Retirees, a Rich Life Does Not Require Spending More Money
• Stuck at Home (reasons to invest in foreign stocks)
• TSP to Offer In-Plan Roth Conversions in 2026
• Understanding the 3 Types of Income — Adjusted Gross, Modified Adjusted Gross, and Taxable Income
• You Only Have to Get Rich Once