personal finance
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
Finance Friday Articles
- Are Fees Taking a Big Bite Out of Your Investments?
- Outlook for the fixed income landscape
- Prohibited Transactions and Investments in IRAs
- Question Yourself
- Role of international equities in asset allocation
- Should You Tap Your Retirement Account to Buy a Home?
- So Much Losing by Active Fund Managers
- When You Think About Investing, Don’t Think About the News
Finance Friday Articles
- Accounting for Illiquid/Intangible Assets on Your Household Balance Sheet
- Big Financial Questions? Step Away From the Spreadsheet
- Financial Planning: An Important Part of Beating Burnout
- How to Spend Your Nest Egg — Probability vs. Safety First
- How to react when markets drop
- Roth Conversions and Contributions: 10 Principles to Understand
- The Best Personal Finance Inflation Hedges
- The Day the Market Bottomed
Finance Friday Articles
- 4 Ways to Create a Less Volatile Portfolio
- 12 Reasons Not to Use a Corporation for Real Estate Investing
- Asset Allocation in the Military: Be Aggressive
- Fight That Bias
- Gifts With Interest
- How to Find a Financial Planner
- I Won’t Be Selling
- Key drivers of Vanguard’s current economic assessments as a result of the war
- Paying for Long-Term Care
- Stock Answers
- The Boom-Bust Cycle in Commodities
- The Cost of Being Wrong About Interest Rates
- There is No Hedge For Everything
- Three Investing Lessons from the Russian Stock Market Collapse
- War Impacts Stocks Less than You Think
- You’re Afraid, Read This
Here’s a cool Vanguard study:
New TSP Features and Finance Friday Articles
You can read about new TSP features and the rest of the articles below:
- How much is that investment in the new TSP mutual fund window?
- How to withstand challenging markets—again
- In times like these, maintain discipline
- It’s Ugly Out There
- Selling a Home by Owner Is Easier Than You Think
- The Worst Thing You Could Do Right Now
- What’s the Point of a Donor Advised Fund?
- Yields Rising
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