personal finance
Finance Friday Articles
- Deploying Your Assets in Retirement
- Estimated Tax Penalties Aren’t Always Final — Here’s How to Shrink Them
- Here’s My Investment Philosophy. What’s Yours?
- Is $5M in Treasury Bills Enough to Be Set for Life?
- Leverage in the Stock Market
- Running out of road to kick the Social Security can
- The TSP Tax Surprise Many Federal Retirees Don’t See Coming
- What Happens if My Password Manager Gets Hacked?
- Why Are Investors Holding More Cash?
- Why I Went to Half-Time as a Physician and How I Made It Work as My Family’s Sole Earner
- Working with Your Parents to Get Richer
Finance Friday Articles
- 9 Principles for Negotiating Salary When Leaving Service
- A third of military families report $500 or less in emergency savings
- How Doctors Should Deal with the Housing Crisis
- How I’m Thinking About Retirement
- Investing 101 for Beginners
- Is the G Fund Really That Special?
- Military families paying $1,000 out of pocket for moves, survey shows
- Quit Smart: Escaping the Trap of Relentless Persistence
- Should You Reinvest Dividends? Not Always
- Spotting Bubbles and Calling Tops
- The 18 Things You MUST Do in Your New Child’s First Year of Life
- The Financial Life Shift: What We Did When I Finally Started Getting Attending Paychecks
- Trump Accounts Lay Solid Financial Foundation for Military Children
- What is my ‘full retirement age’ for Social Security?
- Why I’ve Changed My Mind About Dividend-Paying Stocks
Finance Friday Articles
- A Look Back to March: Trouble in the Middle East, Your TSP and What Not to Do
- Asset Allocation with a Very Low Spending Rate from the Portfolio
- Creating a Family Resilience and Emergency Fund for Rare Events
- How To Lower The Decision Tax
- Money Is the Easiest Way To Measure Your Life. But It Is Not the Best
- Moving Abroad to Stretch Your Retirement Dollars
- No, you don’t have to retire “to” something
- Property and Casualty Risks Could Cost You Millions If You Ignore Them
- RAP Explained: Now That Save Is Dead, Here’s What Physicians Need to Know Before July 1
- Smart Investors vs. Dumb Investors
- The Barbell Portfolio
- What are my options for long term care insurance?
Finance Friday Articles
- Did You Already Win In Life?
- Driving an Old Car to Save Money: Drive a Beater . . . Get Rich
- Great Reasons to Have a Tax-Deferred Account
- Here’s Why Real Estate Helps Me Sleep at Night
- High Inflation May Continue: How It Could Affect Your Investing
- How Much Will SpaceX Actually Cost Your Index Fund?
- Land Appreciates. Homes Depreciate.
- On the Inevitability of an AI Bubble
- Should I contribute to a Flexible Spending Account?
- Solo 401(k)s and Filling Out Form 5500-EZ
- The AI Trade is Global
- Thinking of Using Your TSP to Pay Off Your Home Loan? Think Again
- TIPS vs. I Bonds: Same Inflation Index, Different Risks
- Wise Words from Charley Ellis
- You Should Probably Stop Saving for Retirement
Finance Friday Articles
- 4 Pillars for High-Income Families Paying for College
- 17 Physician Disability Insurance Mistakes to Avoid
- Coast FIRE — How to Spend All Your Money and Still Retire Rich
- Creating The Perfect Portfolio
- How to avoid common, but costly, money mistakes
- How to Reduce Stock Market Stress
- This State Topped a ‘Best for Military Retirees’ Survey for the Third Year in a Row
- What Are Rising Interest Rates Telling Us?
- What Should I Do With My I Bonds? (5/15/26 Update)
- What White Coat Investors Should Know About Mortgages and Home Buying
- What You Will Lose When You Retire
Finance Friday Articles
- Alternatives in a portfolio: Think role, risk, and realism
- Become a Giver, Get Rich
- Direct Indexing: 3 Great Use Cases for High Net Worth Investors
- Hanging Up the White Coat: Planning the Emotional Side of Life After Medicine
- Is This a Bubble?
- I’ve heard about avoiding early withdrawal penalties with the ‘Rule of 55.’ How does it work?
- The 4 Abilities Every Investor Needs to be Successful
- The Risk-Wealth Paradox: Why More Money Means You Should Take Less Risk
- The Ultimate New Resident Physician Checklist: Essential Steps Before Starting Residency
- Understanding Your Financial Behavior: Why ‘Knowing Better’ Isn’t Enough
- Using AI for Tax Research
- WHEN, not IF
- Why Accountants Should Not Be Your Go-To for Financial Advice (Yes, Some Docs Do This)
- Why Doctors Are Quitting At An Earlier Age
- Why the Bucket Strategy May Not Work as Expected for TSP Investors
Finance Friday Articles
- A Government Debt Crisis?
- Household Finances as an Early Indicator of Cognitive Decline
- How NOT to Invest’s 10 Most Important Ideas
- How to Be a Part-Time Physician
- Phishing exploits the gap between tools and trust
- Ten Nasty Financial Tricks Predators Play on Our Clients
- The 10 Commandments of The White Coat Investor
- You Just Retired (or Are About to). Now What?
Finance Friday Articles
- 13 Common Investing Mistakes Wealthy People Make (How Many Are You Making?)
- Believing ‘Never Spend Principal’ Will Cost You Your 60s
- Higher Gas Prices
- Keeping Vulnerable Loved Ones (and Yourself) Safe from Fraud
- Life is existential uncertainty
- Should I Pay Off My Mortgage Early?
- The best and worst states for doctors in 2026
- The Psychology of Spending in Retirement
- What Happens When A Physician Is Reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)?
- Will My Beneficiaries Be Subject to RMDs?
Finance Friday Articles
- An All-Time Bull Market
- Analyzing the Analysis: How Do AI Portfolio Recommendations Hold Up?
- Don’t Fight the Stock Market
- Government Guidance on Passkeys (from the UK)
- How Much Money Do Doctors Make a Year? 8 Specialties Get Paid More than $500,000
- I have a will. Do I really need an estate plan?
- Remaining in the TSP at Separation One of Four Options
- Roth or Traditional? Know the Difference Before You Decide
- Spend Intentionally
- The Expat Doctor’s Common Pitfalls: Why Living Abroad Makes Your US Taxes Harder, Not Easier
- What Do You Believe About Investing?
- What I’ve Learned Writing 500 Blog Posts
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